IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/natcom/v11y2020i1d10.1038_s41467-020-14504-9.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Absence of unidirectionally propagating surface plasmon-polaritons at nonreciprocal metal-dielectric interfaces

Author

Listed:
  • Siddharth Buddhiraju

    (Stanford University)

  • Yu Shi

    (Stanford University)

  • Alex Song

    (Stanford University)

  • Casey Wojcik

    (Stanford University)

  • Momchil Minkov

    (Stanford University)

  • Ian A. D. Williamson

    (Stanford University)

  • Avik Dutt

    (Stanford University)

  • Shanhui Fan

    (Stanford University)

Abstract

In the presence of an external magnetic field, the surface plasmon polariton that exists at the metal-dielectric interface is believed to support a unidirectional frequency range near the surface plasmon frequency, where the surface plasmon polariton propagates along one but not the opposite direction. Recent works have pointed to some of the paradoxical consequences of such a unidirectional range, including in particular the violation of the time-bandwidth product constraint that should otherwise apply in general in static systems. Here we show that such a unidirectional frequency range is nonphysical using both a general thermodynamic argument and a detailed calculation based on a nonlocal hydrodynamic Drude model for the metal permittivity. Our calculation reveals that the surface plasmon-polariton at metal-dielectric interfaces remains bidirectional for all frequencies.

Suggested Citation

  • Siddharth Buddhiraju & Yu Shi & Alex Song & Casey Wojcik & Momchil Minkov & Ian A. D. Williamson & Avik Dutt & Shanhui Fan, 2020. "Absence of unidirectionally propagating surface plasmon-polaritons at nonreciprocal metal-dielectric interfaces," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 11(1), pages 1-6, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-020-14504-9
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14504-9
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14504-9
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/s41467-020-14504-9?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Shiqing Li & Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis & Tao Jiang & Qian Shen & Hang Zhang & Jinhua Yan & Shulin Sun & Linfang Shen, 2024. "Unidirectional guided-wave-driven metasurfaces for arbitrary wavefront control," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-11, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-020-14504-9. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.