Wave-particle duality of single surface plasmonpolaritons

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 470-474

  Kolesov, Roman ^a   Grotz, Bernhard ^a   Balasubramanian, Gopalakrishnan ^a   Stöhr, Rainer J ^a   Nicolet, Aurélien A L ^a   Hemmer, Philip R ^b   Jelezko, Fedor ^a   Wrachtrup, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHONONS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PLASMONS;

ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; SPECTRAL INTERFERENCE; STRONG ELECTRIC FIELDS; SUB-POISSONIAN STATISTICS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY;

PHOTONS;

EID: 67651002656     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1278     Document Type: Article

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