Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 057403 (2005) [4 pages]Quantum Fluctuations of the Refractive Index near the Interface Between a Metal and a Nonlinear DielectricSee Also: Publisher's Note Received 16 September 2004; published 7 February 2005; publisher error corrected 11 February 2005 Zero-point fluctuations of surface plasmon modes near the interface between a metal and a nonlinear dielectric are shown to produce a thin layer of shifted fluctuating dielectric constant near the interface. The shift of the dielectric constant in this layer may be sufficiently large to produce multiple metastable states of the surface plasmon vacuum. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.057403
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.057403
PACS:
78.67.–n, 42.50.–p, 42.65.–k
See AlsoPublisher's Note: Igor I. Smolyaninov, Publisher's Note: Quantum Fluctuations of the Refractive Index near the Interface Between a Metal and a Nonlinear Dielectric [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 057403 (2005)], Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 069903 (2005). |
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