Universal tuning of quantum electrodynamic interactions from power laws to exponential screening and logarithmic antiscreening
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| author | Leuenberger, Michael N. Gunlycke, Daniel |
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| contents | We introduce a material-agnostic platform for \emph{universal tuning of quantum electrodynamic interactions from power laws to exponential screening and logarithmic antiscreening}, realized in a dielectric spacer bounded by two gate-tunable two-dimensional conductors. The structured electromagnetic environment is completely specified by the transverse-magnetic and transverse-electric reflection amplitudes \(r_{\mathrm{TM/TE}}(q_\perp,ω)\) of the sheets. Starting from the QED action and a Green-function formulation, we resum the multiple-reflection series and show that the interactions are governed by a discrete set of transverse cavity harmonics. In the transparent limit \(r_{\rm TM}\to 0\), the interactions reduce to bulk power laws \(U(ρ)\propto ρ^{-α}\). In the reflective limit \(|r_{\rm TM}|\to 1\), the \emph{phase/parity} of \(r_{\rm TM}\) selects two qualitatively distinct branches: a Dirichlet/PEC (screening) branch \(r_{\rm TM}\to -1\) that removes the gapless transverse mode and yields an evanescent Bessel-\(K\) function \(U(ρ)\propto e^{-πρ/d}/\sqrt{ρ/d}\) at \(ρ\gg d\), and an opposite Neumann/PMC-like (antiscreening) branch \(r_{\rm TM}\to +1\) that retains a gapless mode and can strongly enhance the long-range tail. Thus, the same heterostructure provides in situ electrical control over both the \emph{range} and the \emph{strength} of mediated interactions. |
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| spellingShingle | Universal tuning of quantum electrodynamic interactions from power laws to exponential screening and logarithmic antiscreening Leuenberger, Michael N. Gunlycke, Daniel Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics We introduce a material-agnostic platform for \emph{universal tuning of quantum electrodynamic interactions from power laws to exponential screening and logarithmic antiscreening}, realized in a dielectric spacer bounded by two gate-tunable two-dimensional conductors. The structured electromagnetic environment is completely specified by the transverse-magnetic and transverse-electric reflection amplitudes \(r_{\mathrm{TM/TE}}(q_\perp,ω)\) of the sheets. Starting from the QED action and a Green-function formulation, we resum the multiple-reflection series and show that the interactions are governed by a discrete set of transverse cavity harmonics. In the transparent limit \(r_{\rm TM}\to 0\), the interactions reduce to bulk power laws \(U(ρ)\propto ρ^{-α}\). In the reflective limit \(|r_{\rm TM}|\to 1\), the \emph{phase/parity} of \(r_{\rm TM}\) selects two qualitatively distinct branches: a Dirichlet/PEC (screening) branch \(r_{\rm TM}\to -1\) that removes the gapless transverse mode and yields an evanescent Bessel-\(K\) function \(U(ρ)\propto e^{-πρ/d}/\sqrt{ρ/d}\) at \(ρ\gg d\), and an opposite Neumann/PMC-like (antiscreening) branch \(r_{\rm TM}\to +1\) that retains a gapless mode and can strongly enhance the long-range tail. Thus, the same heterostructure provides in situ electrical control over both the \emph{range} and the \emph{strength} of mediated interactions. |
| title | Universal tuning of quantum electrodynamic interactions from power laws to exponential screening and logarithmic antiscreening |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14780 |