Long-Range Dipole-Dipole Interaction and Anomalous F\"{o}rster Energy Transfer across Hyperbolic Meta Material
Abstract
We study radiative energy transfer between a donor-acceptor pair across a hyperbolic metamaterial slab. We show that similar to a perfect lens a hyperbolic lens allows for giant energy transfer rates. For a realistic realization of a hyperbolic multilayer metamaterial we find an enhancement of up to three orders of magnitude with respect to the transfer rates across a plasmonic silver film of the same size especially for frequencies which coincide with the epsilon-near zero and the epsilonnear pole frequencies. Furthermore, we compare exact results based on the S-matrix method with results obtained from effective medium theory. Our finding of very large dipole-dipole interaction at distances of the order of a wavelength has important consequences for producing radiative heat transfer, quantum entanglement etc.
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@article{arxiv.1602.06096,
title = {Long-Range Dipole-Dipole Interaction and Anomalous F\"{o}rster Energy Transfer across Hyperbolic Meta Material},
author = {S. -A. Biehs and V. M. Menon and G. S. Agarwal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.06096},
year = {2016}
}