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Single-molecule optomechanics in "picocavities" by Benz, Felix, Schmidt, Mikolaj K., Dreismann, Alexander, Chikkaraddy, Rohit, Zhang, Yao, Demetriadou, Angela, Carnegie, Cloudy, Ohadi, Hamid, de Nijs, Bart, Esteban, Ruben, Aizpurua, Javier, Baumberg, Jeremy J.

“…Trapping light with noble metal nanostructures overcomes the diffraction limit and can confine light to volumes typically on the order of 30 cubic nanometers…”
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Quantum Mechanical Description of Raman Scattering from Molecules in Plasmonic Cavities by Schmidt, Mikolaj K, Esteban, Ruben, González-Tudela, Alejandro, Giedke, Geza, Aizpurua, Javier

“…Plasmon-enhanced Raman scattering can push single-molecule vibrational spectroscopy beyond a regime addressable by classical electrodynamics. We employ a…”
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Electromagnetic Resonances of Silicon Nanoparticle Dimers in the Visible by Zywietz, Urs, Schmidt, Mikolaj K, Evlyukhin, Andrey B, Reinhardt, Carsten, Aizpurua, Javier, Chichkov, Boris N

“…We report the optical response of dielectric sub-micrometer particle dimers with resonances in the visible, illustrating a hybridization of electric and…”
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Anisotropic Nanoantenna-Based Magnetoplasmonic Crystals for Highly Enhanced and Tunable Magneto-Optical Activity by Maccaferri, Nicolò, Bergamini, Luca, Pancaldi, Matteo, Schmidt, Mikolaj K, Kataja, Mikko, Dijken, Sebastiaan van, Zabala, Nerea, Aizpurua, Javier, Vavassori, Paolo

“…We present a novel concept of a magnetically tunable plasmonic crystal based on the excitation of Fano lattice surface modes in periodic arrays of magnetic and…”
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Probing the electromagnetic response of dielectric antennas by vortex electron beams by Konečná, Andrea, Schmidt, Mikołaj K., Hillenbrand, Rainer, Aizpurua, Javier

“…Focused beams of electrons, which act as both sources and sensors of electric fields, can be used to characterize the electric response of complex photonic…”
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Acoustic diamond resonators with ultrasmall mode volumes by Schmidt, Mikołaj K., Poulton, Christopher G., Steel, Michael J.

“…Quantum acoustodynamics (QAD) is a rapidly developing field of research, offering possibilities to realize and study macroscopic quantum-mechanical systems in…”
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Low-Loss Electric and Magnetic Field-Enhanced Spectroscopy with Subwavelength Silicon Dimers by Albella, Pablo, Poyli, M. Ameen, Schmidt, Mikolaj K, Maier, Stefan A, Moreno, Fernando, Sáenz, Juan José, Aizpurua, Javier

“…Dielectric nanoparticles with moderately high refractive index and very low absorption (like Si and Ge in the visible–near-infrared (VIS–NIR) range) show a…”
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Absorption Enhancement in Peridinin–Chlorophyll–Protein Light-Harvesting Complexes Coupled to Semicontinuous Silver Film by Czechowski, Nikodem, Nyga, Piotr, Schmidt, Mikołaj K., Brotosudarmo, Tatas H. P., Scheer, Hugo, Piatkowski, Dawid, Mackowski, Sebastian

“…We report on experimental and theoretical studies of plasmon-induced effects in a hybrid nanostructure composed of light-harvesting complexes and metallic…”
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Molecular optomechanics in the anharmonic regime: from nonclassical mechanical states to mechanical lasing by Schmidt, Mikołaj K, Steel, M J

“…Cavity optomechanics aims to establish optical control over vibrations of nanoscale mechanical systems, to heat, cool or to drive them toward coherent, or…”
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Rabi Splitting in Photoluminescence Spectra of Hybrid Systems of Gold Nanorods and J‑Aggregates by Melnikau, Dzmitry, Esteban, Ruben, Savateeva, Diana, Sánchez-Iglesias, Ana, Grzelczak, Marek, Schmidt, Mikolaj K, Liz-Marzán, Luis M, Aizpurua, Javier, Rakovich, Yury P

“…We experimentally and theoretically investigate the interactions between localized plasmons in gold nanorods and excitons in J-aggregates under ambient…”
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Pulsed Molecular Optomechanics in Plasmonic Nanocavities: From Nonlinear Vibrational Instabilities to Bond-Breaking by Lombardi, Anna, Schmidt, Mikołaj K., Weller, Lee, Deacon, William M., Benz, Felix, de Nijs, Bart, Aizpurua, Javier, Baumberg, Jeremy J.

“…Small numbers of surface-bound molecules are shown to behave as would be expected for optomechanical oscillators placed inside plasmonic nanocavities that…”
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Antenna resonances in low aspect ratio semiconductor nanowires by Traviss, Daniel J, Schmidt, Mikolaj K, Aizpurua, Javier, Muskens, Otto L

“…We present numerical simulations of low aspect ratio gallium phosphide nanowires under plane wave illumination, which reveal the interplay between transverse…”
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Isotropically polarized speckle patterns by Schmidt, Mikolaj K, Aizpurua, Javier, Zambrana-Puyalto, Xavier, Vidal, Xavier, Molina-Terriza, Gabriel, Sáenz, Juan José

“…The polarization of the light scattered by an optically dense and random solution of dielectric nanoparticles shows peculiar properties when the scatterers…”
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Nanocavities: Optomechanics goes molecular by Schmidt, Mikołaj K, Aizpurua, Javier

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Noise and pulse dynamics in backward stimulated Brillouin scattering by Nieves, Oscar A, Arnold, Matthew D, Steel, M J, Schmidt, Mikołaj K, Poulton, Christopher G

“…We theoretically and numerically study the effects of thermal noise on pulses in backwards stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). Using a combination of…”
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Elastic Purcell Effect by Schmidt, Mikołaj K, Helt, L G, Poulton, Christopher G, Steel, M J

“…In this work, we introduce an elastic analog of the Purcell effect and show theoretically that spherical nanoparticles can serve as tunable and robust antennas…”
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Noise in Brillouin based information storage by Nieves, Oscar A., Arnold, Matthew D., Schmidt, Mikołaj K., Steel, Michael J., Poulton, Christopher G.

“…We theoretically and numerically study the efficiency of Brillouin-based opto-acoustic data storage in a photonic waveguide in the presence of thermal noise…”
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Identifying unbound strong bunching and the breakdown of the rotating wave approximation in the quantum Rabi model by Nodar, Álvaro, Esteban, Ruben, Muniain, Unai, Steel, Michael J., Aizpurua, Javier, Schmidt, Mikołaj K.

“…We use a recently derived gauge-invariant formulation of the problem of a two-level system coupled to an optical cavity to explore the transition between the…”
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Spectral Selectivity of Plasmonic Interactions between Individual Up-Converting Nanocrystals and Spherical Gold Nanoparticles by Piątkowski, Dawid, Schmidt, Mikołaj K, Twardowska, Magdalena, Nyk, Marcin, Aizpurua, Javier, Maćkowski, Sebastian

“…We experimentally demonstrate strong spectral selectivity of plasmonic interaction that occurs between α-NaYF₄:Er /Yb nanocrystals, which feature two emission…”
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Gold Spiky Nanodumbbells: Anisotropy in Gold Nanostars by Novikov, Sergey M., Sánchez-Iglesias, Ana, Schmidt, Mikołaj K., Chuvilin, Andrey, Aizpurua, Javier, Grzelczak, Marek, Liz-Marzán, Luis M.

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