Analogue of the quantum hanle effect and polarization conversion in non-hermitian plasmonic metamaterials

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 6309-6314

  Ginzburg, Pavel ^a   Rodríguez Fortuño, Francisco J ^a,b   Martínez, Alejandro ^b   Zayats, Anatoly V ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

metamaterials; nanoparticles; Plasmonics; polarization conversion

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR BIREFRINGENCE; COHERENT SUPERPOSITIONS; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES; HANLE EFFECTS; LEVEL CROSSING; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; NEW APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL ANALOGUES; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; PLASMONICS; POLARIZATION CONVERSION; POLARIZATION ROTATION; PURE STATE; QUANTUM EFFECTS; QUANTUM PHENOMENA; STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES;

METAMATERIALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

PLASMONS;

METAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

METALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84870874452     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl3034174     Document Type: Article

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