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Published on: December 27, 2012
Many-Body Subradiant Excitations in Metamaterial Arrays: Experiment and Theory
Stewart D Jenkins1, Janne Ruostekoski1, Nikitas Papasimakis2
1Mathematical Sciences and Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
Subradiant excitations, originally predicted by Dicke, have posed a long-standing challenge in physics owing to their weak radiative coupling to environment. Here we engineer massive coherently driven classical subradiance in planar metamaterial arrays as a spatially extended eigenmode comprising over 1000 metamolecules. By comparing the near- and far-field response in large-scale numerical simulations with those in experimental observations we identify strong evidence for classically correlated multimetamolecule subradiant states that dominate the total excitation energy. We show that similar spatially extended many-body subradiance can also exist in plasmonic metamaterial arrays at optical frequencies.
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