Energy transfer and interference by collective electromagnetic coupling

The physics of collective optical response of molecular assemblies,pioneered by Dicke in 1954, has long been at the center of theoretical andexperimental scrutiny. The influence of the environment on such phenomena isalso of great interest due to various important applications in, e.g., energyconvers...

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Autores: Gómez-Castaño, M., Redondo Cubero, Andrés, Buisson, Lionel, Pau Vizcaíno, José Luis, Mihi, Agustín, Ravaine, Serge, Vallée, Renaud A. L., Nitzan, Abraham, Sukharev, Maxim
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/715026
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/715026
https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02521
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Collective fluorescence
superradiance
energy transfer
Física
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Resumo:The physics of collective optical response of molecular assemblies,pioneered by Dicke in 1954, has long been at the center of theoretical andexperimental scrutiny. The influence of the environment on such phenomena isalso of great interest due to various important applications in, e.g., energyconversion devices. In this Letter, we demonstrate both experimentally andtheoretically the spatial modulations of the collective decay rates of moleculesplaced in proximity to a metal interface. We show in a very simple framework howthe cooperative optical response can be analyzed in terms of intermolecularcorrelations causing interference between the response of different molecules andthe polarization induced on a nearby metallic boundary and predict similarcollective interference phenomena in excitation energy transfer betweenmolecular aggregates