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Generation of Photon-Plasmon Quantum Entanglement in Nonlinear Metamaterials

Alexander N. Poddubny, Ivan V. Iorsh, Andrey A. Sukhorukov

Published Jan 1, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

We predict high efficiency of paired photon-plasmon generation through spontaneous nonlinear wave mixing, rigorously accounting for dispersion and losses, and reveal broadband enhancement at the topological transition in hyperbolic metamaterials.
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10.1364/np.2016.nm4a.4

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