Optical Instabilities and Spontaneous Light Emission by Polarizable Moving Matter

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Autor(a) principal: Silveirinha, Mário G.
Data de Publicação: 2014
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/109629
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.031013
Resumo: One of the most extraordinary manifestations of the coupling of the electromagnetic field and matter is the emission of light by charged particles passing through a dielectric medium: the Vavilov-Cherenkov effect. Here, we theoretically predict that a related phenomenon may be observed when neutral fast polarizable particles travel near a metal surface supporting surface plasmon polaritons. Based on a classical formalism, we find that at some critical velocity, even if the initial optical field is vanishingly small, the system may become unstable and may start spontaneously emitting light such that in some initial time window the electromagnetic field grows exponentially with time.
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spelling Optical Instabilities and Spontaneous Light Emission by Polarizable Moving MatterOpticsPlasmonicsOne of the most extraordinary manifestations of the coupling of the electromagnetic field and matter is the emission of light by charged particles passing through a dielectric medium: the Vavilov-Cherenkov effect. Here, we theoretically predict that a related phenomenon may be observed when neutral fast polarizable particles travel near a metal surface supporting surface plasmon polaritons. Based on a classical formalism, we find that at some critical velocity, even if the initial optical field is vanishingly small, the system may become unstable and may start spontaneously emitting light such that in some initial time window the electromagnetic field grows exponentially with time.American Physical Society2014info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10316/109629http://hdl.handle.net/10316/109629https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.031013eng2160-3308Silveirinha, Mário G.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-10-19T08:06:36Zoai:estudogeral.uc.pt:10316/109629Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:25:47.468742Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Optical Instabilities and Spontaneous Light Emission by Polarizable Moving Matter
spellingShingle Optical Instabilities and Spontaneous Light Emission by Polarizable Moving Matter
Silveirinha, Mário G.
Optics
Plasmonics
title_short Optical Instabilities and Spontaneous Light Emission by Polarizable Moving Matter
title_full Optical Instabilities and Spontaneous Light Emission by Polarizable Moving Matter
title_fullStr Optical Instabilities and Spontaneous Light Emission by Polarizable Moving Matter
title_full_unstemmed Optical Instabilities and Spontaneous Light Emission by Polarizable Moving Matter
title_sort Optical Instabilities and Spontaneous Light Emission by Polarizable Moving Matter
author Silveirinha, Mário G.
author_facet Silveirinha, Mário G.
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Silveirinha, Mário G.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Optics
Plasmonics
topic Optics
Plasmonics
description One of the most extraordinary manifestations of the coupling of the electromagnetic field and matter is the emission of light by charged particles passing through a dielectric medium: the Vavilov-Cherenkov effect. Here, we theoretically predict that a related phenomenon may be observed when neutral fast polarizable particles travel near a metal surface supporting surface plasmon polaritons. Based on a classical formalism, we find that at some critical velocity, even if the initial optical field is vanishingly small, the system may become unstable and may start spontaneously emitting light such that in some initial time window the electromagnetic field grows exponentially with time.
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