Hidden symmetries in bowtie nanocavities and diabolo nanoantennas
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Author(s)
Pacheco-Peña, Victor
Alves, Rúben
Navarro-Cía, Miguel
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Symmetries play an important role in many branches of physics and enable simplification of the mathematical description of problems. In some cases, symmetries are hidden and are only evident under suitable coordinate systems. With the help of conformal transformation, it is shown analytically here how asymmetric-looking plasmonics diabolo nanoantennas and bowtie nanocavities display a hidden symmetry that justifies the unforeseen symmetric nonradiative Purcell enhancement of a nanoemitter in their immediacy. The conformal transformation also provides physical insight on the dissimilar self-induced trapping potential experienced by such nanoemitter nearby/inside the diabolo nanoantenna/bowtie nanocavity. The analytical results are confirmed with full-wave simulations. This work highlights the elegant and cost-effective (in terms of computational burden) solution that conformal transformation provides to understand the underlying physics of and to design/model plasmonic nanostructures that are becoming key elements in sensing, quantum optics, and so on.
Date Issued
2019-08-21
Date Acceptance
2019-07-01
Citation
ACS Photonics, 2019, 6 (8), pp.2014-2024
ISSN
2330-4022
Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Start Page
2014
End Page
2024
Journal / Book Title
ACS Photonics
Volume
6
Issue
8
Copyright Statement
© 2019 American Chemical Society. This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in ACS Photonics, after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00428
Sponsor
Imperial College London
Identifier
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00428
Grant Number
Junior Research Fellow - Cohort 2012
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-07-26