Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chichkov, Nikolai B.
• Evlyukhin, Andrey B.
• Chichkov, Boris N.

Titel

Massive surface-plasmon polaritons

Ist Teil von

• Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany), 2021-10, Vol.10 (14), p.3777-3778

Ort / Verlag

Berlin: De Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (Open access)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• It is well-known that a quantum of light (photon) has a zero mass in vacuum. Entering into a medium the photon creates a quasiparticle (polariton, plasmon, surface-phonon, surface-plasmon polariton, etc.) whose rest mass is generally not zero. In this letter, devoted to the memory of Mark Stockman, we evaluate the rest mass of light-induced surface-plasmon polaritons (SPPs) and discuss an idea that collisions of two massive SPP quasiparticles can result in changes of their frequencies according to the energy and momentum conservation laws.