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Hot spot-mediated non-dissipative and ultrafast plasmon passage.


ABSTRACT: Plasmonic nanoparticles hold great promise as photon handling elements and as channels for coherent transfer of energy and information in future all-optical computing devices.1-5 Coherent energy oscillations between two spatially separated plasmonic entities via a virtual middle state exemplify electron-based population transfer, but their realization requires precise nanoscale positioning of heterogeneous particles.6-10 Here, we show the assembly and optical analysis of a triple particle system consisting of two gold nanoparticles with an inter-spaced silver island. We observe strong plasmonic coupling between the spatially separated gold particles mediated by the connecting silver particle with almost no dissipation of energy. As the excitation energy of the silver island exceeds that of the gold particles, only quasi-occupation of the silver transfer channel is possible. We describe this effect both with exact classical electrodynamic modeling and qualitative quantum-mechanical calculations. We identify the formation of strong hot spots between all particles as the main mechanism for the loss-less coupling and thus coherent ultra-fast energy transfer between the remote partners. Our findings could prove useful for quantum gate operations, but also for classical charge and information transfer processes.

SUBMITTER: Roller EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5540180 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Hot spot-mediated non-dissipative and ultrafast plasmon passage.

Roller Eva-Maria EM   Besteiro Lucas V LV   Pupp Claudia C   Khorashad Larousse Khosravi LK   Govorov Alexander O AO   Liedl Tim T  

Nature physics 20170515 8


Plasmonic nanoparticles hold great promise as photon handling elements and as channels for coherent transfer of energy and information in future all-optical computing devices.1-5 Coherent energy oscillations between two spatially separated plasmonic entities <i>via</i> a virtual middle state exemplify electron-based population transfer, but their realization requires precise nanoscale positioning of heterogeneous particles.6-10 Here, we show the assembly and optical analysis of a triple particle  ...[more]

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