Credits

The following publications reports the development of the first principles near field energy transfer that is implemented in PyRET. If you find PyRET useful for your research, please consider citing these works:

[1] Chattaraj, Swarnabha, Supratik Guha, and Giulia Galli. “First-Principles Investigation of near-Field Energy Transfer between Localized Quantum Emitters in Solids.” Physical Review Research 6, no. 3 (2024): 033170. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.033170.

[2] Chattaraj, Swarnabha, and Giulia Galli. “Energy Transfer between Localized Emitters in Photonic Cavities from First Principles.” Physical Review Research 7, no. 3 (2025): 033229. https://doi.org/10.1103/8h8j-b79r.

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title = {Energy transfer between localized emitters in photonic cavities from first principles},
author = {Chattaraj, Swarnabha and Galli, Giulia},
journal = {Phys. Rev. Res.},
volume = {7},
issue = {3},
pages = {033229},
numpages = {18},
year = {2025},
month = {Sep},
publisher = {American Physical Society},
doi = {10.1103/8h8j-b79r},
url = {https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/8h8j-b79r}
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@article{PhysRevResearch.6.033170,
title = {First-principles investigation of near-field energy transfer between localized quantum emitters in solids},
author = {Chattaraj, Swarnabha and Guha, Supratik and Galli, Giulia},
journal = {Phys. Rev. Res.},
volume = {6},
issue = {3},
pages = {033170},
numpages = {16},
year = {2024},
month = {Aug},
publisher = {American Physical Society},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.033170},
url = {https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.033170}
}

Contact

Swarnabha Chattaraj (schattaraj@anl.gov)

Funding

Development of this code was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, for support of microelectronics research at the Extreme Lithography & Materials Innovation Center (ELMIC), under Contract No. DE-AC0206CH11357.