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American Physical Society, Physical review B, 20(87)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.87.201101

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Enhanced superradiance in epsilon-near-zero plasmonic channels

Journal article published in 2013 by Romain Fleury ORCID, Andrea Alù
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Abstract

We describe the possibility of drastically boosting the spontaneous emission of a collection of two-level quantum emitters by embedding them in an epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) environment, consisting of a plasmonic waveguide operated at cut-off. This phenomenon relies on the combination of Purcell enhancement and Dicke superradiance effects, exploiting the large and uniform local density of states in ENZ channels, which is shown to significantly extend the spatial extent of these quantum effects. We envision exciting applications in optical sensing, molecular detection and low-threshold lasing. ; Comment: 17 pages, 4 figures