Quantum plasmonics: wave-particle duality, indistinguishability and entanglement of surface plasmons
Virtual Zoom Seminar: Quantum plasmonics: wave-particle duality, indistinguishability and entanglement of surface plasmons by Prof. Jean-Jacques Greffet
Prof. Jean-Jacques Greffet
Institut d’Optique and Université Paris-Saclay
Senior member, Institut Universitaire de France
In this talk, we report experiments aiming at exploring the physics of surface plasmons in the single plasmon regime. In other words, we revisit quantum optics using surface plasmons. We report four typical quantum optics experiments: i) tests of the wave-particle duality of surface plasmons, ii) observation of the coalescence and anticoalescence of plasmons on a lossy beam splitter, iii) observation of entanglement between a photon and a plasmon and iv) interferences of N00N states
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Meeting ID: 973 7359 9387 Passcode: ECE2021
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- Date: 04 Mar 2021
- Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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Biography:
Jean-Jacques Greffet received his PhD in solid state physics in 1988 from Université Paris-Sud. He is a professor at Institut d’Optique, Université Paris-Saclay and a senior member of Institut Universitaire de France. He first studied light scattering of electromagnetic waves and the theory of near-field microscopy. He revisited thermal emission at the nanoscale and discovered the role of surface waves to produce spatially coherent thermal sources and to enhance near-field radiative heat transfer. He made contributions to the field of nanoantennas including the proposal for using nanoantennas with single quantum emitters to control lifetime and directional emission. His current research interests deal with revisiting fundamental quantum optics experiments with surface plasmons (wave-particle duality, Hong Ou Mandel experiment, photon-plasmon entanglement, electrical emission by tunnel effect) and controlling light-matter interaction at the nanoscale using resonators and collective effects. He is an OSA fellow and the recipient of the Servant prize of the French Academy of Science.