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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Graphene-induced tunable Lamb shifts beyond atomic fine structure

Cyuan-Han Chang, Nicholas Rivera, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljacic A, Ido E. Kaminer

Published Jan 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

We show that highly tunable atomic energy levels can be achieved by exploiting plasmonic Lamb shifts. The shifts can be larger than fine-structure shifts and potentially larger than the Coulomb interactions at certain Fermi energies.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2018.ff2l.5

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