Francesco Ciccarello

Seeing Inside a Plasmonic Nanogap: Few-Molecule Orientation and Preferential Adsorption

Abstract Molecule–surface interactions are central to many research and technological areas, spanning from heterogeneous catalysis and polymer science to electrochemistry. Of particular relevance are metallic nanogaps used in molecular electronics and near-field spectroscopy. Due...

Emergent cavity-QED dynamics along the edge of a photonic lattice

Abstract We investigate qubits coupled to the boundary of a two-dimensional photonic lattice that supports dispersionless edge modes—unlike conventional edge modes that sustain propagating photons. As a case study, we consider a honeycomb lattice ( photonic graphene ) of coupled...