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Control of the Radiative Heat Transfer in a Pair of Rotating Nanostructures
Juan R. Deop-Ruano, Alejandro Manjavacas
The fluctuations of the electromagnetic field are at the origin of the near-field radiative heat transfer between nanostructures, as well as the Casimir forces and torques that the…
Green Tensor Analysis of Lattice Resonances in Periodic Arrays of Nanoparticles
Lauren Zundel, Alvaro Cuartero-González, Stephen Sanders +2
When arranged in a periodic geometry, arrays of metallic nanostructures are capable of supporting collective modes known as lattice resonances. These modes, which originate from th…
Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer Eigenmodes
Stephen Sanders, Lauren Zundel, Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp +2
The near-field electromagnetic interaction between nanoscale objects produces enhanced radiative heat transfer that can greatly surpass the limits established by far-field black-bo…
Two-photon spontaneous emission in atomically thin plasmonic nanostructures
Y. Muniz, A. Manjavacas, C. Farina +2
The ability to harness light-matter interactions at the few-photon level plays a pivotal role in quantum technologies. Single photons - the most elementary states of light - can be…
High-harmonic generation from an epsilon-near-zero material
Yuanmu Yang, Jian Lu, Alejandro Manjavacas +7
High-harmonic generation (HHG) from a compact, solid-state medium is highly desirable for applications such as coherent attosecond pulse generation and extreme ultra-violet (EUV) s…
Finite-Size Effects on Periodic Arrays of Nanostructures
Lauren Zundel, Alejandro Manjavacas
Arrays of nanostructures have emerged as exceptional tools for the manipulation and control of light. Oftentimes, despite the fact that real implementations of nanostructure arrays…
Nanoscale transfer of angular momentum mediated by the Casimir torque
Stephen Sanders, Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp, Diego A. R. Dalvit +1
Casimir interactions play an important role in the dynamics of nanoscale objects. Here, we investigate the noncontact transfer of angular momentum at the nanoscale through the anal…
How To Identify Plasmons from the Optical Response of Nanostructures
Runmin Zhang, Luca Bursi, Joel D. Cox +11
A promising trend in plasmonics involves shrinking the size of plasmon-supporting structures down to a few nanometers, thus enabling control over light-matter interaction at extrem…
Lateral Casimir force on a rotating particle near a planar surface
Alejandro Manjavacas, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, F. Javier García de Abajo +1
We study the lateral Casimir force experienced by a particle that rotates near a planar surface. The origin of this force lies in the symmetry breaking induced by the particle rota…
Ultrafast Radiative Heat Transfer
R. Yu, A. Manjavacas, F. J. Garcia de Abajo
Light absorption in conducting materials produces heating of their conduction electrons, followed by relaxation into phonons within picoseconds, and subsequent diffusion into the s…
Graphene optical-to-thermal converter
Alejandro Manjavacas, Sukosin Thongrattanasiri, Jean-Jacques Greffet +1
Infrared plasmons in doped graphene nanostructures produce large optical absorption that can be used for narrow-band thermal light emission at tunable frequencies that strongly dep…
Plasmonics in Atomically Thin Materials
F. Javier Garcia de Abajo, Alejandro Manjavacas
The observation and electrical manipulation of infrared surface plasmons in graphene have triggered a search for similar photonic capabilities in other atomically thin materials th…
Tunable plasmons in atomically thin gold nanodisks
A. Manjavacas, F. J. Garcia de Abajo
The ability to modulate light at high speeds is of paramount importance for telecommunications, information processing, and medical imaging technologies. This has stimulated intens…
Plasmons Driven by Single Electrons in Graphene Nanoislands
Alejandro Manjavacas, Sukosin Thongrattanasiri, F. Javier Garcia de Abajo
Plasmons produce large confinement and enhancement of light that enable applications as varied as cancer therapy and catalysis. Adding to these appealing properties, graphene has e…
Quantum Junction Plasmons in Graphene Dimers
Sukosin Thongrattanasiri, Alejandro Manjavacas, Peter Nordlander +1
The interaction between doped graphene nanoislands connected by narrow junctions constitutes an ideal testbed to probe quantum effects in plasmonic systems. Here, the interaction b…
Rotational Quantum Friction
Rongkuo Zhao, Alejandro Manjavacas, F. Javier García de Abajo +1
We investigate the frictional forces due to quantum fluctuations acting on a small sphere rotating near a surface. At zero temperature, we find the frictional force near a surface…
Temporal Quantum Control with Graphene
Alejandro Manjavacas, Sukosin Thongrattanasiri, Darrick E. Chang +1
We introduce a novel strategy for controlling the temporal evolution of a quantum system at the nanoscale. Our method relies on the use of graphene plasmons, which can be electrica…
Radiative Heat Transfer between Neighboring Particles
Alejandro Manjavacas, F. Javier Garcia de Abajo
The near-field interaction between two neighboring particles is known to produce enhanced radiative heat transfer. We advance in the understanding of this phenomenon by including t…
Stimulated light emission and inelastic scattering by a classical linear system of rotating particles
Ana Asenjo-Garcia, Alejandro Manjavacas, F. Javier García de Abajo
The rotational dynamics of particles subject to external illumination is found to produce light amplification and inelastic scattering at high rotation velocities. Light emission a…
Robust plasmon waveguides in strongly-interacting nanowire arrays
A. Manjavacas, F. J. García de Abajo
Arrays of parallel metallic nanowires are shown to provide a tunable, robust, and versatile platform for plasmon interconnects, including high-curvature turns with minimum signal l…