Comprehensive microscopic theory for coupling of individual and collective excitations via longitudinal and transverse fields

Tomohiro Yokoyama, Masayuki Iio, Takashi Kinoshita, Takeshi Inaoka, and Hajime Ishihara
Phys. Rev. B 105, 165408 – Published 6 April 2022

Abstract

A plasmon is a collective excitation of electrons due to the Coulomb interaction. Both plasmons and single-particle excitations (SPEs) are eigenstates of bulk metallic systems and they are orthogonal to each other. In nontranslationally symmetric systems such as nanostructures, plasmons and SPEs coherently interact. It has been well discussed that the plasmons and SPEs, respectively, can couple with transverse (T) electric fields in such systems, and also that they are coupled with each other via longitudinal (L) field. However, there has been a missing link in the previous studies: the coherent coupling between the plasmons and SPEs mediated by the T field. Herein, we develop a theoretical framework to describe the self-consistent relationship between the plasmons and SPEs through both the L and T fields. The excitations are described in terms of the charge and current densities in a constitutive equation with a nonlocal susceptibility, where the densities include the L and T components. The electromagnetic fields originating from the densities are described in terms of Green's function in Maxwell's equations. The T field is generated from both densities, whereas the L component is attributed to the charge density only. We introduce a four-vector representation incorporating the vector and scalar potentials in the Coulomb gauge, in which the T and L fields are separated explicitly. The eigenvalues of the matrix for the self-consistent equations appear as the poles of the system excitations. A numerical demonstration of the excitation spectrum is performed for a rectangular nanorod. It indicates a non-negligible shift of the collective excitation and an enhancement of the energy transfer between the excitations by the T-field-mediated interaction. The developed formulation enables to approach unknown mechanisms for the enhancement of the coherent coupling between the plasmons and the hot carriers generated by radiative fields.

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  • Received 18 May 2021
  • Revised 14 March 2022
  • Accepted 18 March 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.165408

©2022 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Tomohiro Yokoyama1,*, Masayuki Iio1,2, Takashi Kinoshita2, Takeshi Inaoka3, and Hajime Ishihara1,2,4

  • 1Department of Material Engineering Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
  • 2Department of Physics and Electronics, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan
  • 3Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus, 1 Senbaru, Nishihara-cho, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
  • 4Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan

  • *tomohiro.yokoyama@mp.es.osaka-u.ac.jp

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Vol. 105, Iss. 16 — 15 April 2022

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