2008/05/31 by Vitaliy N. Pustovit, Tigran V. Shahbazyan · 3 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Chemical physics #Condensed matter physics #Dipole #Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications #Materials science #Metal #Molecular physics #Nanoparticle #Nanotechnology #Optoelectronics #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Physics #Plasmon #Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research #Plasmonic nanoparticles #Quantum mechanics #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.102.077401
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 077401 (2009) · 4 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2008/08/12 · openalex publication_date 2009/02/17 · arxiv updated 2015/05/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We identify a new mechanism for cooperative emission of light by an ensemble of N dipoles near a metal nanostructure supporting a surface plasmon. The cross talk between emitters due to the virtual plasmon exchange leads to the formation of three plasmonic superradiant modes whose radiative decay rates scale with N, while the total radiated energy is thrice that of a single emitter. Our numerical simulations indicate that the plasmonic Dicke effect survives nonradiative losses in the metal.