Quantum Phenomena in Electromagnetics [Guest Editorial]

Abstract

Quantum phenomena are attracting increasing interest in various areas within electromagnetics. The article “Plasmonic Waveguides: Enhancing Quantum Electrodynamic Phenomena at Nanoscale,” by Ying Li and Christos Argyropoulos, continues this series on quantum technologies. While the article aims to explain plasmonic phenomena (sources near metal surfaces) at a quantum level, it also devotes significant attention to the use of the classical Green’s function in rigorous quantum theory and calculations. This provides a bridge from the familiar (classical electromagnetics) to what may be, for some readers, the unfamiliar (quantum electromagnetics) for dispersive and lossy environments.