Browsing by Author "Meyer zu Heringdorf, Frank-J."

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    Focused surface plasmon polaritons coherently couple to electronic states in above-threshold electron emission
    (2023) Dreher, Pascal; Janoschka, David; Frank, Bettina; Giessen, Harald; Meyer zu Heringdorf, Frank-J.
    When an intense light field strongly interacts with the band structure of a solid, the formation of hybrid light-matter quantum states becomes possible. Examples of such Floquet-Bloch states have been reported, but engineering of the band structure using Floquet states can suffer from dissipation and decoherence. Sustaining the necessary quantum coherence of the light-matter interactions requires robust electronic states in combination with strong fields of suitable polarization and frequency. Here, we explore the quantum coherent coupling of nano-focused surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) to distinct electronic states in the band structure of a solid. We observe above-threshold electron emission from the Au(111) Shockley surface state by the absorption of up to seven SPP quanta. Using time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy the coherence of the interaction of the SPPs with the surface state during electron emission is investigated and the process is shown to be similar to light-driven above threshold electron emission. Ultimately, our work could render SPP-based Floquet engineering in nano-optical systems feasible.
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    Short-range surface plasmonics: localized electron emission dynamics from a 60-nm spot on an atomically flat single-crystalline gold surface
    (2017) Frank, Bettina; Kahl, Philip; Podbiel, Daniel; Spektor, Grisha; Orenstein, Meir; Fu, Liwei; Weiss, Thomas; Horn-von Hoegen, Michael; Davis, Timothy J.; Meyer zu Heringdorf, Frank-J.; Giessen, Harald