2008/09/30 by M. S. Tame, Mark Tame, Changhyoup Lee +10 · 1 citation
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.101.190504
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190504 (2008) · 4 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX4; Accepted version (Phys. Rev. Lett.)
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We provide the quantum-mechanical description of the excitation of surface plasmon polaritons on metal surfaces by single photons. An attenuated-reflection setup is described for the quantum excitation process in which we find remarkably efficient photon-to-surface plasmon wave-packet transfer. Using a fully quantized treatment of the fields, we introduce the Hamiltonian for their interaction and study the quantum statistics during transfer with and without losses in the metal.