Nanopolaritons: Vacuum rabi splitting with a single quantum dot in the center of a dimer nanoantenna

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 6369-6376

  Savasta, Salvatore ^a   Saija, Rosalba ^a   Ridolfo, Alessandro ^a   Di Stefano, Omar ^a   Denti, Paolo ^a   Borghese, Ferdinando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cavity quantum electrodynamics; Light scattering; Localized surface plasmons; Quantum dots; Vacuum Rabi splitting

Indexed keywords

CAVITY QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; CLASSICAL LOGIC; COMPACT ELECTRONICS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NANOANTENNAS; NANOMETRIC SIZE; NONPERTURBATIVE; QUANTUM COMPUTATION; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SCATTERING CALCULATIONS; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT; SINGLE QUANTUM EMITTER; VACUUM RABI SPLITTING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRODYNAMICS; LIGHT; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; REFRACTION; SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VACUUM;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 78649612215     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100585h     Document Type: Article

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