Graphene Plasmon Excitation with Ground-State Two-Level Quantum Emitters. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The transmission of a two-level quantum emitter in its ground state through a graphene nanosheet is investigated. The graphene plasmons (GPs) field distribution, especially the opposite orientations of the vertical electric field components on the two sides of the graphene nanosheet, produces a significant nonadiabatic process during the interaction between the emitter and the localized GPs. By taking into account the counterrotating terms, the excitation of the quantum emitter with simultaneous emission of a GP has a large probability. This happens for emitter speeds of about 10^{-4} times the speed of light. For accelerated emitters, the GPs exhibit thermal field photon distribution with a high temperature. As a consequence, this study provides a promising platform to observe the dynamical Casimir effect as well as a simulation of the Unruh effect.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Zeng, X., & Zubairy, M. S.

citation count

  • 5

complete list of authors

  • Zeng, Xiaodong||Zubairy, M Suhail

publication date

  • March 2021