The Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue 639798, Singapore.
Science. 2017 Nov 17;358(6365):915-917. doi: 10.1126/science.aap7939.
In advanced field theories, there can be more than four dimensions to space, the excess dimensions described as compacted and unobservable on everyday length scales. We report a simple model, unconnected to field theory, for a compacted dimension realized in a metallic metasurface periodically structured in the form of a grating comprising a series of singularities. An extra dimension of the grating is hidden, and the surface plasmon excitations, though localized at the surface, are characterized by three wave vectors rather than the two of typical two-dimensional metal grating. We propose an experimental realization in a doped graphene layer.
在高级场论中,空间可能有超过四个维度,多余的维度被描述为在日常长度尺度上紧凑和不可观测的。我们报告了一个与场论无关的简单模型,用于实现金属超表面中的一个紧凑维度,该超表面以光栅的形式周期性地结构化,光栅由一系列奇点组成。光栅的额外维度被隐藏,表面等离激元激子虽然局限在表面,但具有三个波矢,而不是典型二维金属光栅的两个波矢。我们提出了在掺杂石墨烯层中的实验实现。