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Description of squeezed surface plasmons

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Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are the combined electron oscillations and electromagnetic waves propagating along the interface between a conductor and a dielectric. Recently Huck et al. [Huck A, et al. Phys Rev Lett, 2009, 102: 246802] proved that SPPs can be in a squeezed state, and the squeezed surface plasmons can propagate in a gold waveguide. In this paper, we introduce a quantum mechanical description of the squeezed surface plasmons at first, and discuss the influence of the waveguide losses on the squeezed surface plasmons.

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    LiHua Yang, YongGang Wang & BoJun Yang

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Yang, L., Wang, Y. & Yang, B. Description of squeezed surface plasmons. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 54, 1583 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-011-4429-3

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