Controlling photon bunching and antibunching of two quantum emitters near a core-shell sphere
arXiv:2001.10096 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.101.023828
Abstract
The collective spontaneous emission of two point-dipole emitters near a plasmonic core-shell nanosphere is theoretically investigated. Based on the expansion of mode functions in vector spherical harmonics, we derive closed analytical expressions for both the cooperative decay rate and the dipole-dipole interaction strength associated with two point dipoles close to a sphere. Considering a plasmonic nanoshell containing a linearly amplifying medium inside the core, the second-order correlation function for the two emitters shows that it is possible to tune the photon emission, selecting either photon bunching or antibunching as a function of the polarization and position of the sphere. This result opens vistas to applications involving tunable single-photon sources in engineered artificial media.
arXiv comment16 pages, 7 figures; published in PRA, Editors' Suggestion
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