CLAQUE

Classical and Quantum Electrodynamics of light-matter coupling (CLAQUE) is a project:

funded by the Spanish MINECO
under the Programa Estatal de I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad
with Principal Investigators: Antonio Fernández Domínguez and Elena del Valle Reboul
running from January 2016 to 2019.

Description

CLAQUE is a collaborative theoretical project designed by a team of young, leading scientists which aims to address open, fundamental and technologically-oriented problems involving classical and quantum aspects of light and light-matter interactions. CLAQUE brings together complementary areas of expertise to address currently open problems in nano- and quantum-optics. It aims at setting on foot exploratory strategies with potential ground-breaking implications, and opening new fronts of research by merging different approaches to closely related problems. The project focuses on novel phenomena emerging from the tuning and optimization of quantum correlations [1] in exciton-plasmon, and other hybrid light confining, platforms [2].

References:

[1] C. Sanchez Muñoz, E. del Valle, A. González-Tudela, K. Müller, S. Lichtmannecker, M. Kaniber, C. Tejedor, J. J. Finley and F. P. Laussy, Nat. Photon., 8, 550 (2014).

[2] R.-Q. Li, D. Hernangómez-Pérez, F. J. García-Vidal and A. I. Fernández-Domínguez, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 107401 (2016).

http://laussy.org/wiki/SQUIRREL#The_Bundler

Papers published

1. The colored Hanbury Brown--Twiss effect, B. Silva, A. González Tudela, C. Sánchez Muñoz, D. Ballarini, G. Gigli, K. W. West, L. Pfeiffer, E. del Valle, D. Sanvitto, F. P. Laussy. Sci. Rep. 6, 37980 (2016)

2. Homogeneous Metamaterial Description of Localized Spoof Plasmons in Spiral Geometries, Z. Liao, A. I. Fernández-Domínguez, et al., ACS Phot. 3, 1788 (2016)

3. Transformation Optics Approach to Plasmon-Exciton Strong Coupling in Nanocavities, Rui-Qi Li, D. Hernangómez-Pérez, F. J. García-Vidal, A. I. Fernández-Domínguez, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 107401 (2016)

4. Excitation with quantum light. I. Exciting a harmonic oscillator, J. C. López Carreño and F. P. Laussy, Phys. Rev. A 94, 063825 (2016)

5. Excitation with quantum light. II. Exciting a two-level system, J. C. López Carreño, C. Sánchez Muñoz, E. del Valle, F. P. Laussy, Phys. Rev. A 94, 063826 (2016)

6. Toward Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Hybrid Photon Gap-Plasmon States, F. Todisco et al., ACS Nano 19, 113660 (2016)