Directional energy transport in strongly coupled chiral quantum emitter plasmonic nanostructures.

Achieving directional exciton energy transport can revolutionize a plethora of applications that depend on exciton energy transfer. In this study, we theoretically analyse a system that comprises a collection of chiral quantum emitters placed in a plasmonic setup made up of a metal nanoparticle trimer. We investigate the system by pumping left and right circularly polarized photons to excite the system. We observe that the generated localized surface plasmon modes are polarization-depended, causing chiral coupling between the quantum emitters and the plasmon optical modes. Based on the plasmon field intensity profiles, we show that directional exciton transport can be obtained when the light-matter interaction becomes adequately strong, leading the system towards the strong coupling regime.

Control of quantum emitter-plasmon strong coupling and energy transport with external electrostatic fields.

We investigate a system comprised of a constellation quantum emitters interacting with a localized surface plasmon mode of a metal nanoparticle subject to an externally applied electrostatic field. Due to the strong interactions among the electric field and the plasmonic setup, we show that system enters collective strong coupling regime generating polariton states when the intensity of the applied electrostatic field is increased. This in turn enhances the exciton energy transport rates between two emitters in the system when a single emitter is incoherently pumped. We further analyze how the placement of quantum emitter dipole moment orientation affects the observed collective strong coupling and how the electrostatic field can be used to put our setup to either weak or strong coupling regimes via the interacting electrostatic field.