Multi-cavity photonic systems, known as photonic molecules (PMs), are ideal multi-well potential building blocks for advanced quantum and nonlinear optics. A key phenomenon arising in double well potentials is the spontaneous breaking of the inversion symmetry, i.e. a transition from…

Optical Tamm plasmon states are electromagnetic modes confined at the interface between a Bragg mirror and a metallic film. These states offer coupling to photonic states in a relatively narrow solid angle in both TM and TE polarizations, and quality…

As modern service systems are pressured to provide competitive prices via cost-effective capacity planning, especially in the paradigm of cloud computing, service level agreements (SLAs) end up becoming ever more sophisticated, i.e., fulfilling targets of different percentiles of response times.…