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Cavity modification of magnetoplasmon modes through coupling with intersubband polaritons
Phys. Rev. B 113, 125309 – Published 27 March, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/6vps-4prq
Abstract
We investigate the coupling of a multimode metal-insulator-metal cavity to a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a quantum well in the presence of a strong magnetic field. The TM cavity mode is strongly hybridized with an intersubband transition of the 2DEG, forming a polaritonic mode in the ultrastrong coupling regime, while the TE mode remains an almost purely cavity mode. The magnetoplasmon excitation emerging from the presence of the magnetic field couples with both TM and TE modes, exhibiting different coupling strengths and levels of spatial field inhomogeneity. While the strong homogeneity of the bare TE mode gives rise to the standard anticrossing of strong coupling, the inhomogeneous polaritonic TM mode is shown to activate an observable Coulombic effect in the spectral response, often referred to as nonlocality. This experiment demonstrates a cavity-induced modification of the 2DEG response and offers a route to probing the effect of Coulomb interactions in ultrastrongly coupled systems via reshaping of their cavity mode profiles.
