Dirac dynamics in one-dimensional graphene-like plasmonic crystals: Pseudo-spin, chirality, and diffraction anomaly

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 25329-25338

  Nam, Sung Hyun ^a   Zhou, Jiangfeng ^a   Taylor, Antoinette J ^a   Efimov, Anatoly ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRALITY; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; CRYSTALS; ENANTIOMERS; GRAPHENE; HALL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLIDS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

DIRAC DYNAMICS; DIRAC POINT; INTERNAL SYMMETRY; K-SPACE; PLASMONIC CRYSTALS; QUANTUM PARTICLES; SPIN HALL EFFECT; SPIN STATE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TWO BEAMS;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 78649704496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.025329     Document Type: Article

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