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薄拓扑绝缘体中Dirac等离子体相互作用对表面电荷和自旋密度振荡的控制

Controlling surface charge and spin density oscillations by Dirac plasmon interaction in thin topological insulators

M. Ameen Poyli, M. Hrtoň, I. A. Nechaev, A. Nikitin, P. M. Echenique, V. M. Silkin, J. Aizpurua, R. Esteban

摘要:

我们研究了薄拓扑绝缘体支撑的光学和声学等离子体激元模在红外和太赫兹频率的选择性激发。这些模式的特点是有效的净电荷或净自旋密度,分别,我们研究了它们的激发相结合的多体和电磁计算。我们首先表明,非局域性可以显着修改等离子体响应:它改变了传播等离子体的能量高达百分之几十。然后,我们讨论如何,通过改变偶极源和半无限的10 nm薄膜之间的距离,它是可能的控制激发的声学和光学传播等离子体,它可以传播超过几个等离子体波长的距离。此外,我们考虑10 nm薄TI纳米盘和研究的声学和光学局部等离子体激元模式的激发点偶极子源和平面波照明,分别。共振等离子体激元模式出现在强烈依赖于盘的大小的频率处,并且可以通过应用静电门控来潜在地调谐以修改在TI的界面处形成的导电二维层的费米能量。通过改变费米能从250 meV到350 meV,我们观察到了从~29 $μ$ m到~34 $μ$ m的谱移。最后,这些等离子体激元模式的电磁能量可以被限制在非常小的区域内,对于所考虑的较小圆盘,有效体积为~(120 nm)^3,远小于自由空间波长的立方$λ$ ^3 ~(35000 nm)^3。强约束对于实现与附近系统的非常有效的耦合是期望的。因此,我们的详细研究表明,薄的拓扑绝缘体是一个有前途的系统,以控制与等离子体共振相关的自旋和电荷振荡,与快速,紧凑和电控自旋电子器件的可能应用。

英文摘要:

We study the selective excitation at infrared and THz frequencies of optical and acoustic plasmonic modes supported by thin topological insulators. These modes are characterized by effective net charge or net spin density, respectively, and we study their excitation by combining many-body and electromagnetic calculations. We first show that non-locality can significantly modify the plasmonic response: it changes the energy of propagating plasmons up to tens of percent. We then discuss how, by changing the distance between a dipolar source and a semi-infinite 10 nm thin film, it is possible to control the excitation of acoustic and optical propagating plasmons, which can propagate over a distance of several plasmonic wavelengths. Furthermore, we consider 10 nm thin TI nanodisks and study the excitation of acoustic and optical localized plasmon modes by a point dipole source and plane wave illumination, respectively. The resonant plasmonic modes appear at frequencies that strongly depends on the size of the disk, and that can be potentially tuned by applying electrostatic gating to modify the Fermi Energy of the conductive 2-dimensional layer that forms at the interfaces of the TI. We observe a spectral shift from ~29 $μ$m to ~34 $μ$m by changing the Fermi Energy from 250meV to 350meV. Last, the electromagnetic energy of these plasmonics modes can be confined to very small regions, of effective volume ~(120 nm)^3 for the smaller disk considered, much less than the free-space wavelength cubed $λ$^3 ~(35000 nm)^3. The strong confinement is desirable for achieving very efficient coupling with nearby systems. Our detailed study thus shows that thin topological insulators are a promising system to control both the spin and charge oscillations associated with the plasmonic resonances, with possible applications to fast, compact and electrically-controlled spintronics devices.

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