Disorder-induced Purcell enhancement in nanoparticle chains

Abstract

In this paper we report on numerical study of plasmonic nanoparticle chains with long-range dipole-dipole interaction. We have shown that introduction of positional disorder gives a peak in the density of resonant states (DOS) at the frequency of individual nanoparticle resonance. This peak is referred to Dyson singularity in one-dimensional disordered structures [Dyson F., 1953] and, according to our calculations, governs the spectral properties of local DOS. This provides disorder-induced Purcell enhancement that can found its applications in random lasers and for SERS spectroscopy. We stress that this effect relates not only to plasmonic nanoparticles but to an arbitrary chain of nanoparticles or atoms with resonant polarizabilities.

9 pages, 9 figures, 41 references, regular paper

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