Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.revip.2021.100063
Anna Stakia , Tommaso Dorigo , Giovanni Banelli , Daniela Bortoletto , Alessandro Casa , Pablo de Castro , Christophe Delaere , Julien Donini , Livio Finos , Michele Gallinaro , Andrea Giammanco , Alexander Held , Fabricio Jiménez Morales , Grzegorz Kotkowski , Seng Pei Liew , Fabio Maltoni , Giovanna Menardi , Ioanna Papavergou , Alessia Saggio , Bruno Scarpa , Andreas Weiler
Between the years 2015 and 2019, members of the Horizon 2020-funded Innovative Training Network named “AMVA4NewPhysics” studied the customization and application of advanced multivariate analysis methods and statistical learning tools to high-energy physics problems, as well as developed entirely new ones. Many of those methods were successfully used to improve the sensitivity of data analyses performed by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider; several others, still in the testing phase, promise to further improve the precision of measurements of fundamental physics parameters and the reach of searches for new phenomena. In this paper, the most relevant new tools, among those studied and developed, are presented along with the evaluation of their performances.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.revip.2021.100061
Igor Tsukerman
The conventional definition of electric polarization as the “dipole moment per unit volume” is valid only for the special case of well-separated dipoles. An alternative general approach is to view polarization as a characteristic not of a single charge distribution but rather of an adiabatic transition between two nearby states. Polarization can then be rigorously defined as the integral of the current density over that transition. In contrast with the “Modern Theory of Polarization,” which is fully quantum-mechanical, in this paper polarization is considered from the classical perspective. Such treatment is less fundamental but simpler, has pedagogical advantages and, importantly, is subject to fewer constraints. Polarization can be rigorously and unambiguously defined for periodic or nonperiodic charge distributions, finite or infinite, microscale or macroscale, electrically neutral or non-neutral, continuous or discrete, at any temperature; polarization can be spontaneous or induced. A previous classical (non-quantum) analysis by Russakoff (Am J Phys 1970) was (i) limited to the Clausius–Mossotti/Lorenz–Lorentz model of molecular dipoles, and (ii) involves multipole expansions, which the analysis of this paper shows to be redundant.
The traditional dipole model of polarization is a straightforward special case of the proposed definition. A number of illustrative examples are presented.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.revip.2021.100051
Anton D. Utyushev , Vadim I. Zakomirnyi , Ilia L. Rasskazov
Engineering nanostructures with exceptionally high-Q resonances mediated by the Fano-type hybridization between discrete states associated with the periodicity of the structure and broadband resonances excited on constituent scatterers are the emerging field in optics and photonics. These collective lattice resonances (CLRs) attracted a lot of attention in recent years due to a number of their exciting applications in sensing, optical filtering, structural color printing, fluorescence enhancement, nanoscale lasing, and nonlinear optics, which resulted in a rapidly growing number of fundamental and experimental studies. CLRs have been discovered for arrays of plasmonic metal nanoparticles with strong electric dipole resonances nearly four decades ago. Thereafter, the scope of CLRs has gradually extended to all-dielectric and magneto-optical nanoparticles, 2D materials and other types of constituents, which has broadened the range of CLRs applicability and enriched their properties. We provide a comprehensive review of the recent progress in this field with a special emphasis on advances far beyond plasmonics.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.revip.2021.100056
Rosa Luca Bouwmeester, Alexander Brinkman
BaBiO3 is an oxide perovskite with a wide variety of interesting properties. It was expected that the compound would behave like a metal. However, experiments revealed that BaBiO3 is not metallic, which started an extensive debate about the mechanism responsible for this insulating behavior. The two most important conjectures in this debate are charge disproportionation of the Bi ion into 3+ and 5+ cations and bond hybridization of the Bi 6s and O 2p orbitals. Both mechanisms induce a breathing mode of the oxygen octahedra, which is experimentally observed in single crystals and thin films. Recently, ultra-thin BaBiO3 films were studied with the aim of suppressing the breathing mode, which was expected to result in re-emergence of metallicity. However, this expectation was not confirmed so far. Furthermore, theoretical calculations predict that BaBiO3 becomes a topological insulator (TI) when doped with electrons. Since high-temperature superconductivity was observed when doping the compound with holes, an interface between a superconductor and a TI can be established within the same parent compound. In this Review, we discuss the theoretical and experimental findings concerning the mechanism responsible for the unexpected insulating behavior of BaBiO3 for both single crystals and thin films. An overview is given of the current state of the art and the experimental challenges of achieving an oxide topological insulating state in BaBiO3.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.revip.2021.100053
Heather M. Gray
Colliders have been at the forefront of discovery in particle physics for more than half a century. Building on the success of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the field of particle physics has been developing and reviewing the scientific cases for the colliders to succeed the LHC in the context of regional and international review and long-term planning processes. The aim is to reach consensus about which new collider or even colliders to build. This collider would determine the future direction of the field of particle physics and, ideally, lead to solutions to unanswered questions and problems with the Standard Model. We will provide a short overview of the current proposals for different colliders for the high-energy frontier and their proposed run plans. It will focus on comparing and contrasting their physics potential, while also placing them in their historical context.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.revip.2021.100054
Lin Cui , Jingang Wang , Mengtao Sun
Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) can achieve light transmission beyond the diffraction limit due to their special dispersion relationship. As a novel two-dimensional material, graphene has attracted extensive attention in recent years because of its unique band structure, excellent electronic and optical properties, and ability to support SPPs transmission on its surface. Graphene surface plasmon polaritons (GSPPs) are characterized by high carrier mobility, strong localization, low consumption and high tunability. It has functional and future applications in the transmission of optical knowledge, photodetectors, surface plasmon waveguides, metamaterials and nanolasers.
{"title":"Graphene plasmon for optoelectronics","authors":"Lin Cui , Jingang Wang , Mengtao Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.revip.2021.100054","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.revip.2021.100054","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) can achieve light transmission beyond the diffraction limit due to their special dispersion relationship. As a novel two-dimensional material, graphene has attracted extensive attention in recent years because of its unique band structure, excellent electronic and optical properties, and ability to support SPPs transmission on its surface. Graphene surface plasmon polaritons (GSPPs) are characterized by high carrier mobility, strong localization, low consumption and high tunability. It has functional and future applications in the transmission of optical knowledge, photodetectors, surface plasmon waveguides, metamaterials and nanolasers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37875,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Physics","volume":"6 ","pages":"Article 100054"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.revip.2021.100054","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48799490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.revip.2020.100047
Alexander E. Moskalensky, Maxim A. Yurkin
We comprehensively review the deceptively simple concept of dipole scattering in order to uncover and resolve all ambiguities and controversies existing in the literature. First, we consider a point electric dipole in a non-magnetic environment as a singular point in space whose sole ability is to be polarized due to the external electric field. We show that the postulation of the Green’s dyadic of the specific form provides the unified description of the contribution of the dipole into the electromagnetic properties of the whole space. This is the most complete, concise, and unambiguous definition of a point dipole and its polarizability. All optical properties, including the fluctuation–dissipation theorem for a fluctuating dipole, are derived from this definition. Second, we obtain the same results for a small homogeneous sphere by taking a small-size limit of the Lorenz–Mie theory. Third, and most interestingly, we generalize this microscopic description to small particles of arbitrary shape. Both bare (static) and dressed (dynamic) polarizabilities are defined as the double integrals of the corresponding dyadic transition operator over the particle’s volume. While many derivations and some results are novel, all of them follow from or are connected with the existing literature, which we review throughout the paper.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.revip.2020.100045
Biagio Di Micco , Maxime Gouzevitch , Javier Mazzitelli , Caterina Vernieri
This document summarises the current theoretical and experimental status of the di-Higgs boson production searches, and of the direct and indirect constraints on the Higgs boson self-coupling, with the wish to serve as a useful guide for the next years. The document discusses the theoretical status, including state-of-the-art predictions for di-Higgs cross sections, developments on the effective field theory approach, and studies on specific new physics scenarios that can show up in the di-Higgs final state. The status of di-Higgs searches and the direct and indirect constraints on the Higgs self-coupling at the LHC are presented, with an overview of the relevant experimental techniques, and covering all the variety of relevant signatures. Finally, the capabilities of future colliders in determining the Higgs self-coupling are addressed, comparing the projected precision that can be obtained in such facilities. The work has started as the proceedings of the Di-Higgs workshop at Colliders, held at Fermilab from the 4th to the 9th of September 2018, but it went beyond the topics discussed at that workshop and included further developments. FERMILAB-CONF-19-468-E-T, LHCHXSWG-2019-005
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.revip.2020.100041
Venu Gopal Achanta
Surface modes at interfaces, especially, the surface plasmon polaritons at metal-dielectric interfaces localize field. Associated applications are well pursued in addition to their basic properties which themselves are interesting. There are several metal-dielectric geometries that support surface modes like the gap, Tamm, spoof, and magneto-plasmons. After a brief pedagogical overview of these surface modes and the often-used dispersion measurement techniques, material science aspects like the quest for lossless plasmonic metal, dispersionless plasmonic structures, and plasmon dynamics are discussed. Some of the open problems are presented.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.revip.2020.100046
Pietro Vischia
The complexity of collider data analyses has dramatically increased from early colliders to the CERN LHC. Reconstruction of the collision products in the particle detectors has reached a point that requires dedicated publications documenting the techniques, and periodic retuning of the algorithms themselves. Analysis methods evolved to account for the increased complexity of the combination of particles required in each collision event (final states) and for the need of squeezing every last bit of sensitivity from the data; physicists often seek to fully reconstruct the final state, a process that is mostly relatively easy at lepton colliders but sometimes exceedingly difficult at hadron colliders to the point of requiring sometimes using advanced statistical techniques such as machine learning. The need for keeping the publications documenting results to a reasonable size implies a greater level of compression or even omission of information with respect to publications from twenty years ago. The need for compression should however not prevent sharing a reasonable amount of information that is essential to understanding a given analysis. Infrastructures like Rivet or HepData have been developed to host additional material, but physicists in the experimental Collaborations often still send an insufficient amount of material to these databases. In this manuscript I advocate for an increase in the information shared by the Collaborations, and try to define a minimum standard for acceptable level of information when reporting the results of statistical procedures in High Energy Physics publications.
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