Abstract
The recent years have seen a rapid expansion of research of the excitation of electromagnetic surface shaperesonances in lamellar metallic gratings by light in the visible to near-infrared range based on the model ofsurface plasmon–polaritons. We argue that these electromagnetic waves propagate along metal–dielectricinterfaces and can be guided by metallic nanostructures beyond the new fundamental Bose-particles with spinone and rest mass e m ? 2.5?10?5m (where e m is the mass of the electron). We call these light bosons becausethey induce the electromagnetic field. The existence of light bosons is confirmed by experiment connected withoriginal type of the Bose-Einstein condensation. In this letter, we treat the interaction between light boson modesand electron modes in a metallic medium which leads to existence of the polaritons. These polaritons acquire aproperty of the charged electron gas with the Coulomb interaction and are excited into a fixed interval of wavenumbers.
Highlights
There have been many studies of optical light transmission throughindividual nanometer-sized holes in opaque metal films in recent years, presented by Lopez-Rios et al (1998), Ghaemi et al (1998), and Sonnichen et al (2000). These experiments showed highly unusual transmission properties of metal films perforated with a periodic array of subwavelength holes, because the intensity of electric field is highly localized inside the grooves
De Broglie (1925) first proposed the principle which states that a matter wave is determined by wave-particle duality or de Broglie wave of matter, which was confirmed by the famous Davisson and Germer experiment and by the Compton effect where the particle nature of light was demonstrated. This reasoning helps us to treat the model of the electromagnetic field as a Bose gas consisting of Bose particles with spin 1 and non-zero rest mass which are interacting with each other due to gauge invariance
The classic Maxwell equations lead to appearance of the so-called ultraviolet catastrophe; to remove this problem, Planck modeled the electromagnetic field as an ideal Bose gas of massless photons with spin 1
Summary
There have been many studies of optical light transmission throughindividual nanometer-sized holes in opaque metal films in recent years, presented by Lopez-Rios et al (1998), Ghaemi et al (1998), and Sonnichen et al (2000). As is well known, de Broglie (1925) first proposed the principle which states that a matter wave is determined by wave-particle duality or de Broglie wave of matter, which was confirmed by the famous Davisson and Germer experiment and by the Compton effect where the particle nature of light was demonstrated This reasoning helps us to treat the model of the electromagnetic field as a Bose gas consisting of Bose particles with spin 1 and non-zero rest mass which are interacting with each other due to gauge invariance. It is well known, the quantization scheme for the local electromagnetic field in vacuum was first treated by Planck in his black-body radiation studies. We prove that the polaritons acquire a property of a charged electron gas with the Coulomb interaction
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