title: Giant surface-plasmon-induced drag effect in metal nanowires.
abstract: Here, for the first time we predict a giant surface-plasmon-induced drag-effect rectification (SPIDER), which exists under conditions of the extreme nanoplasmonic confinement. In nanowires, this giant SPIDER generates rectified THz potential differences up to 10 V and extremely strong electric fields up to approximately 10(5)-10(6) V/cm. The giant SPIDER is an ultrafast effect whose bandwidth for nanometric wires is approximately 20 THz. It opens up a new field of ultraintense THz nanooptics with wide potential applications in nanotechnology and nanoscience, including microelectronics, nanoplasmonics, and biomedicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA.
authors.forename: Maxim
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Durach
authors.forename: Anastasia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rusina
authors.forename: Mark I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Stockman