Enhanced robustness and dimensional crossover of superradiance in cuboidal nanocrystal superlattices

Autor: Ghonge, Sushrut, Engel, David, Mattiotti, Francesco, Celardo, G. Luca, Kuno, Masaru, Jankó, Boldizsár
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Physical Review Research 5, 023068 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.023068
Popis: Cooperative emission of coherent radiation from multiple emitters (known as superradiance) has been predicted and observed in various physical systems, most recently in CsPbBr$_3$ nanocrystal superlattices. Superradiant emission is coherent and occurs on timescales faster than the emission from isolated nanocrystals. Theory predicts cooperative emission being faster by a factor of up to the number of nanocrystals ($N$). However, superradiance is strongly suppressed due to the presence of energetic disorder, stemming from nanocrystal size variations and thermal decoherence. Here, we analyze superradiance from superlattices of different dimensionalities (one-, two- and three-dimensional) with variable nanocrystal aspect ratios. We predict as much as a 15-fold enhancement in robustness against realistic values of energetic disorder in three-dimensional (3D) superlattices composed of cuboid-shaped, as opposed to cube-shaped, nanocrystals. Superradiance from small $(N\lesssim 10^3)$ two-dimensional (2D) superlattices is up to ten times more robust to static disorder and up to twice as robust to thermal decoherence than 3D superlattices with the same $N$. As the number of $N$ increases, a crossover in the robustness of superradiance occurs from 2D to 3D superlattices. For large $N\ (> 10^3)$, the robustness in 3D superlattices increases with $N$, showing cooperative robustness to disorder. This opens the possibility of observing superradiance even at room temperature in large 3D superlattices, if nanocrystal size fluctuations can be kept small.
Databáze: arXiv