Plasmon-exciton self-induced transparency

Journal Article · Fri Apr 15 04:00:00 EDT 2011 · Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776111020105· OSTI ID:22028095

The possibility of forming stable bound plasmon-polariton states in an extended metallic cylinder surrounded by a two-level medium has been investigated. The dynamics of plasmons is described in the hydrodynamic approximation. It has been shown that the equations of motion of charge-density bunches and the Bloch equations for the two-level medium are reduced in certain approximations to integrable equations for both transverse and longitudinal plasmons. In the former case, the initial system of equations after the application of the slow-envelope approximation is reduced to equations equivalent to the Maxwell-Bloch equations. In the latter case, the equations describe wave dynamics beyond the slow-envelope approximation. In the approximation of unidirectional wave propagation, the initial system of equations is reduced to equations related to the reduced Maxwell-Bloch equations. Soliton and breather-like solutions of the derived equations describe plasmon-exciton self-induced transparency.

• OSTI ID: 22028095
• Journal Information: Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 112; ISSN JTPHES; ISSN 1063-7761
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
APPROXIMATIONS
BLOCH EQUATIONS
CHARGE DENSITY
CYLINDERS
EQUATIONS OF MOTION
INTEGRAL CALCULUS
MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS
METALS
OPACITY
PLASMONS
POLARONS
SOLITONS
WAVE PROPAGATION