Momentum considerations inside near-zero index materials

Michaël Lobet; Iñigo Liberal; Larissa Vertchenko; Andrei V. Lavrinenko; Nader Engheta; Eric Mazur

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- Momentum considerations inside near-zero index materials
- Momentum considerations inside near-zero index materials
- Light: Science & Applications 2022年11卷第8期页码：1782-1789
- Affiliations：
  
  1.John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 9 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
  2.Department of Physics and Namur Institute of Structured Materials, University of Namur, Rue de Bruxelles 51, 5000, Namur, Belgium
  3.Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Campus Arrosadía, Pamplona, 31006, Spain
  4.Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Ørsteds Plads 345A, DK-2800 Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark
  5.Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- Author bio：
  
  Michaël. Lobet (michael.lobet@unamur.be)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-022-00790-z
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- 纸质出版日期：2022-08-31，
  
  网络出版日期：2022-04-25，
  
  收稿日期：2021-09-07，
  
  修回日期：2022-03-18，
  
  录用日期：2022-04-05
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Michaël Lobet, Iñigo Liberal, Larissa Vertchenko, 等. Momentum considerations inside near-zero index materials[J]. Light: Science & Applications, 2022,11(8):1782-1789.

Lobet, M. et al. Momentum considerations inside near-zero index materials. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 1782-1789 (2022).
Michaël Lobet, Iñigo Liberal, Larissa Vertchenko, 等. Momentum considerations inside near-zero index materials[J]. Light: Science & Applications, 2022,11(8):1782-1789. DOI： 10.1038/s41377-022-00790-z.

Lobet, M. et al. Momentum considerations inside near-zero index materials. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 1782-1789 (2022). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-022-00790-z.

摘要

Abstract

Near-zero index (NZI) materials

i.e.

materials having a phase refractive index close to zero

are known to enhance or inhibit light-matter interactions. Most theoretical derivations of fundamental radiative processes rely on energetic considerations and detailed balance equations

but not on momentum considerations. Because momentum exchange should also be incorporated into theoretical models

we investigate momentum inside the three categories of NZI materials

i.e.

inside epsilon-and-mu-near-zero (EMNZ)

epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) and mu-near-zero (MNZ) materials. In the context of Abraham–Minkowski debate in dispersive materials

we show that Minkowski-canonical momentum of light is zero inside all categories of NZI materials while Abraham-kinetic momentum of light is zero in ENZ and MNZ materials but nonzero inside EMNZ materials. We theoretically demonstrate that momentum recoil

transfer momentum from the field to the atom and Doppler shift are inhibited in NZI materials. Fundamental radiative processes inhibition is also explained due to those momentum considerations inside three-dimensional NZI materials. Absence of diffraction pattern in slits experiments is seen as a consequence of zero Minkowski momentum. Lastly

consequence on Heisenberg inequality

microscopy applications and on the canonical momentum as generator of translations are discussed. Those findings are appealing for a better understanding of fundamental light-matter interactions at the nanoscale as well as for lasing applications.

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