Vacuum Rabi splitting of a dark plasmonic cavity mode revealed by fast electrons

Ora Bitton; Satyendra Nath Gupta; Lothar Houben; Michal Kvapil; Vlastimil Křápek; Tomáš Šikola; Gilad Haran

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14364-3

Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Vacuum Rabi splitting of a dark plasmonic cavity mode revealed by fast electrons

Ora Bitton,
Satyendra Nath Gupta,
Lothar Houben,
Michal Kvapil,
Vlastimil Křápek,
Tomáš Šikola,
Gilad Haran

Affiliations

Ora Bitton: Chemical Research Support Department, Weizmann Institute of Science
Satyendra Nath Gupta: Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Lothar Houben: Chemical Research Support Department, Weizmann Institute of Science
Michal Kvapil: Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology
Vlastimil Křápek: Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology
Tomáš Šikola: Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology
Gilad Haran: Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14364-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Dark plasmonic modes fare better in some applications due to longer lifetimes but, being subradiant, are difficult to probe. The authors apply electron energy loss spectroscopy to demonstrate that a dark mode of a plasmonic cavity can couple with a few quantum emitters to exhibit vacuum Rabi splitting.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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