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2010/05/13, Dr. Daniel Ballester (Queen's University Belfast)

Place:  Sala de Seminarios del Departamento de Física Teórica e Historia de la Ciencia
Time: 12h.
Title: Quantized Surface Plasmon Polaritons

Abstract
 
Plasmonics is a rapidly growing area of research based at the nanoscale that is currently experiencing intensive studies by researchers from many areas of the physical sciences. Plasmonic-based anophotonic devices using surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) have recently started to attract much interest from the quantum optics ommunity for their use in quantum information processing (QIP). In this talk I will discuss some practical techniques for efficiently enerating and controlling plasmonic excitations at the quantum level. I will also introduce a rigorous quantum mechanical model for escribing how photons and different forms of SPPs interact. With a clear description and theoretical understanding of these interactions, he rapid development of novel QIP applications, using nanostructured devices based on linear and nonlinear plasmonic effects will become ossible.