title: Cooperative emission of light by an ensemble of dipoles near a metal nanoparticle: the plasmonic Dicke effect.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi 39217, USA.
authors.forename: Vitaliy N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Pustovit
authors.forename: Tigran V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Shahbazyan
mesh_terms: D015374:Biosensing Techniques; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry; D005453:Fluorescence; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D017785:Photons; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D006046:Gold; D004247:DNA