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Photon antibunching in the optical near field
Arnaud ArbouetG. Colas Des FrancsVincent PaillardChristian GirardRenaud Martysubject
NanostructurePhysics::OpticsNear and far field02 engineering and technologyDielectricengineering.material01 natural sciencesMolecular physics78.20.Bh 42.50.Ar 07.79.FcOptics0103 physical sciencesQuantum system[SPI.NANO]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Micro and nanotechnologies/Microelectronics010306 general physicsPlasmonPhysicsPhoton antibunchingbusiness.industryAutocorrelationDiamond021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyCondensed Matter PhysicsElectronic Optical and Magnetic Materialsengineering[ SPI.NANO ] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Micro and nanotechnologies/Microelectronics0210 nano-technologybusinessdescription
International audience; We show that a combination of the field-susceptibility technique with the optical Bloch equations gives access to the temporal evolution of the populations and coherences of any quantum system placed in the optical near field of a nanostructure. In particular, we show that the near-field evanescent states, confined around dielectric or plasmonic particles, can be used to modify and control the photon statistics of the quantum system. This theoretical scheme leads to second-order autocorrelation functions in good agreement with recent experimental measurements performed with nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond nanocrystals placed in interaction with gold nanoparticles.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-08-09 |