1303.3352 (Wade Naylor)
Wade Naylor
In a process analogous to photon-photon creation via the dynamical Casimir effect (DCE), after separating Maxwell's equations in a setup that allows for both electric and magnetic time-dependent media, we discuss how surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) can be created out of vacuum via the time-dependent variation of the medium. We find that vacuum excited SPPs dominate the photon creation rate for TM modes in a dielectric slab, modulated in time inside a cylindrical cavity. The possible experimental detection of vacuum SPPs is also discussed.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3352
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