@article{02688968e98049a39495aadfc59a4b1e,
title = "Energy Transfer and Interference by Collective Electromagnetic Coupling",
abstract = "The physics of collective optical response of molecular assemblies, pioneered by Dicke in 1954, has long been at the center of theoretical and experimental scrutiny. The influence of the environment on such phenomena is also of great interest due to various important applications in, e.g., energy conversion devices. In this Letter, we demonstrate both experimentally and theoretically the spatial modulations of the collective decay rates of molecules placed in proximity to a metal interface. We show in a very simple framework how the cooperative optical response can be analyzed in terms of intermolecular correlations causing interference between the response of different molecules and the polarization induced on a nearby metallic boundary and predict similar collective interference phenomena in excitation energy transfer between molecular aggregates.",
keywords = "Collective fluorescence, energy transfer, superradiance",
author = "Mayte G{\'o}mez-Casta{\~n}o and Andr{\'e}s Redondo-Cubero and Lionel Buisson and Pau, {Jose Luis} and Agustin Mihi and Serge Ravaine and Vall{\'e}e, {Renaud A.L.} and Abraham Nitzan and Maxim Sukharev",
note = "Funding Information: This work is sponsored in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant Nos. FA9550-15-1-0189 and FA9550-19-1-0009 (M.S.), the U.S. National Science Foundation, Grant Nos. CHE1665291 (A.N.), CTQ2017-84309-C2-2-R (A.R.-C. and J.L.P.), P2018/NMT4349 Comunidad de Madrid (A.R.-C. and J.L.P.), RYC-2015-18047 (A.R.-C.), and the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, Grant No. 2014113 (M.S. and A.N.). We thank the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) for its support through Grants MAT2016-79053-P and Grant SEV-2015-0496. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (Grant Agreement No. 637116). This work was also financially supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR) as part of the Initiative for Excellence IdEx Bordeaux program (Grant ANR-10-IDEX-03-02). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 American Chemical Society.",
year = "2019",
month = aug,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02521",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "19",
pages = "5790--5795",
journal = "Nano Letters",
issn = "1530-6984",
publisher = "American Chemical Society",
number = "8",
}