Transition from weak to strong light-molecule coupling: Application to fullerene 
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 multilayers in metallic cavity

Converting transverse photons into longitudinal two-dimensional plasmon-–polaritons (2D-PP) and vice versa presents a significant challenge within the fields of photonics and plasmonics. Therefore, understanding the mechanism which increases the photon – 2D-PP conversion efficiency could significantly contribute to those efforts. In this study, we theoretically examine how efficiently incident radiation, when scattered by a silver spherical nanoparticle (Ag-NP), can be transformed into 2D-PP within van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures composed of hexagonal boron nitride and graphene (hBN/Gr composites). We show that the Dirac plasmon (DP) excitation efficiency depends on the Ag-NP radius as R 3, and decreases exponentially with Ag-NP height h, so that for a certain Ag-NP geometry up to 25 % of the incident electrical field is channeled into the DP. We demonstrate that the linear plasmons (LPs) excitation efficiency can be manipulated by changing the graphene–graphene distance Δ (or hBN thickness) or by changing the number of graphene layers N. By increasing Δ and/or N the LPs move towards smaller wave vectors Q and become accessible by the Ag-NP dipole field, so that for N ≥ 5 the excitation of more than one LP is possible. These results are supported by recent scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) measurements. Furthermore, we show that Ag-NPs with specific parameters preferentially hybridizes with DPs of a particular wavelength λ D , facilitating selective excitation of DPs. The obtained tuning possibilities could have a significant impact on applied plasmonics, photonics or optoelectronics.

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Transition from weak to strong light-molecule coupling: Application to fullerene C60 multilayers in metallic cavity

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