Photoluminescence from a gold nanotip in an accelerated reference frame
Abstract
Photoluminescence from a gold nanotip, which is induced by surface plasmons propagating over a curved tapered nanotip surface is considered in a co-moving accelerated reference frame. Similar to the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) effect, nonlinear optical mixing of the surface plasmons with the Unruh quanta is supposed to be enhanced by many orders of magnitude.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters A
- Pub Date:
- November 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.physleta.2008.10.061
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0510743
- Bibcode:
- 2008PhLA..372.7043S
- Keywords:
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- 78.67.-n;
- 04.62.+v;
- Optical properties of low-dimensional mesoscopic and nanoscale materials and structures;
- Quantum field theory in curved spacetime;
- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect
- E-Print:
- Accepted for publication in Phys. Letters A 4 pages, 3 figures