Harvesting excitons through plasmonic strong coupling

Exciton harvesting is demonstrated in an ensemble of quantum emitters coupled to localized surface plasmons. When the interaction between emitters and the dipole mode of a metallic nanosphere reaches the strong-coupling regime, the exciton conductance is greatly increased. The spatial map of the con...

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Autores: Gonzalez-Ballestero, Carlos, Feist, Johannes, Moreno Soriano, Esteban, García Vidal, Fco. José
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/672802
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/672802
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.121402
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Exciton harvesting
Plasmons
Metallic nanosphere
Transport
Ultrafast time
Física
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Sumario:Exciton harvesting is demonstrated in an ensemble of quantum emitters coupled to localized surface plasmons. When the interaction between emitters and the dipole mode of a metallic nanosphere reaches the strong-coupling regime, the exciton conductance is greatly increased. The spatial map of the conductance matches the plasmon field intensity profile, which indicates that transport properties can be tuned by adequately tailoring the field of the plasmonic resonance. Under strong coupling, we find that pure dephasing can have detrimental or beneficial effects on the conductance, depending on the effective number of participating emitters. Finally, we show that the exciton transport in the strong-coupling regime occurs on an ultrafast time scale given by the inverse Rabi splitting (∼10 fs), which is orders of magnitude faster than transport through direct hopping between the emitters