Two-Photon Spontaneous Emission in Atomically Thin Plasmonic Nanostructures
Abstract
The ability to harness light-matter interactions at the few-photon level plays a pivotal role in quantum technologies. Single photons—the most elementary states of light—can be generated on demand in atomic and solid state emitters. Two-photon states are also key quantum assets, but achieving them in individual emitters is challenging because their generation rate is much slower than competing one-photon processes. We demonstrate that atomically thin plasmonic nanostructures can harness two-photon spontaneous emission, resulting in giant far field two-photon production, a wealth of resonant modes enabling tailored photonic and plasmonic entangled states, and plasmon-assisted single-photon creation orders of magnitude more efficient than standard one-photon emission. We unravel the two-photon spontaneous emission channels and show that their spectral line shapes emerge from an intricate interplay between Fano and Lorentzian resonances. Enhanced two-photon spontaneous emission in two-dimensional nanostructures paves the way to an alternative efficient source of light-matter entanglement for on-chip quantum information processing and free-space quantum communications.
- Authors:
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- Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS)
- Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1760577
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-20-20456
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; TRN: US2206027
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001; ECCS-1710697; DMR-1941680; 20190574ECR; 20180062DR
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 125; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Plasmonics; quantum optics; spontaneous emission; surface plasmon polariton; graphene; nanostructures; two-dimensional electron system
Citation Formats
Muniz, Y., Manjavacas, A., Farina, C., Dalvit, D. A. R., and Kort-Kamp, W. J. M. Two-Photon Spontaneous Emission in Atomically Thin Plasmonic Nanostructures. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.125.033601.
Muniz, Y., Manjavacas, A., Farina, C., Dalvit, D. A. R., & Kort-Kamp, W. J. M. Two-Photon Spontaneous Emission in Atomically Thin Plasmonic Nanostructures. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.125.033601
Muniz, Y., Manjavacas, A., Farina, C., Dalvit, D. A. R., and Kort-Kamp, W. J. M. Wed .
"Two-Photon Spontaneous Emission in Atomically Thin Plasmonic Nanostructures". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.125.033601. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1760577.
@article{osti_1760577,
title = {Two-Photon Spontaneous Emission in Atomically Thin Plasmonic Nanostructures},
author = {Muniz, Y. and Manjavacas, A. and Farina, C. and Dalvit, D. A. R. and Kort-Kamp, W. J. M.},
abstractNote = {The ability to harness light-matter interactions at the few-photon level plays a pivotal role in quantum technologies. Single photons—the most elementary states of light—can be generated on demand in atomic and solid state emitters. Two-photon states are also key quantum assets, but achieving them in individual emitters is challenging because their generation rate is much slower than competing one-photon processes. We demonstrate that atomically thin plasmonic nanostructures can harness two-photon spontaneous emission, resulting in giant far field two-photon production, a wealth of resonant modes enabling tailored photonic and plasmonic entangled states, and plasmon-assisted single-photon creation orders of magnitude more efficient than standard one-photon emission. We unravel the two-photon spontaneous emission channels and show that their spectral line shapes emerge from an intricate interplay between Fano and Lorentzian resonances. Enhanced two-photon spontaneous emission in two-dimensional nanostructures paves the way to an alternative efficient source of light-matter entanglement for on-chip quantum information processing and free-space quantum communications.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.125.033601},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 3,
volume = 125,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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