光子人工微结构中的类量子现象研究

申请项目将围绕光子人工微结构材料（Engineered Photonic Structures,以下简称EPS）中的类量子现象展开系统的理论和实验研究。研究目标为通过人为调节EPS中光的相干现象来模拟、研究凝聚态系统和原子系统的新奇量子现象，加深对相关量子现象物理机制的认识，并在此基础上为利用类量子效应来调控光的行为提供新的物理途径。主要研究内容包括：EPS中特别是美特材料（Metamaterials）和表面等离激元（Plasmonis）及相关复合结构中类量子现象的物理机制以及控制这些物理机制的关键参量，如类凝聚态系统新奇量子现象与EPS的光子激发能谱之间的联系、类原子系统量子光学现象与EPS中共振诱导的相干效应之间的联系等。项目研究内容涉及到凝聚态物理、光物理、量子物理、材料物理等学科，具有显著的多学科交叉特性。项目的研究成果不仅有重要的科学意义，而且对相关器件的应用有广泛的指导意义。

It is known that there are similarities of coherent phenomena between quantum mechanics and wave optics, and the developpment of engineered photonic structures (EPS) has provied a platform to study these so called quantum-optical analogies or quantum-like phenomena. The proposed project aims to study novel quantum phenomena in atomic systems or condensed-matter systems by manipulating light transportation and coherence in EPS. The project will focus on two typical EPS, metamaterials and plasmonics, and their composite structures. Theoretical and experimental investigations of the project will be concentrated on unusual ways and key parameters of mimicing quantum-like phenomenan in EPS, such as tailoring photonic bandgap and then the density of states in momentum space, tunning parameters of local resonant strucutres in real space.We expect, based on the study of the project, to get better understanding of some novel quantum precesses which are difficult to study experimentally in original atomic or condensed-matter systems, on one hand. On the other, the scientific research of the project may be important for potential applications of quantum-like phenomenan in EPS based devices.