In this work, we consider both small-molecule dyes and plasmonic nanoparticles as acceptors, and the relevant Hamiltonian and Lind-bladian parameters can be extracted from experimentally obtained or simulated absorption spectra. The metal nanoparticle acceptors are modeled as 5 nm silver or gold particles, as described above, and the small-molecule dyes are modeled after malachite green (MG). We take the Hamiltonian and Lindbladian parameters for MG from the work of Lopata and coworkers, who examined the coupled optical response of gold nanoparticles and MG. In that study, the optical response of the dye, which was described as a three-level quantum system, was embedded within a classical electrodynamics simulation for the nanoparticle. Here, we slightly modify the quantum model for MG to include four levels: the ground state (|1 ), a sink state (|2 ) that is degenerate with the ground state, and two excited states (|3 and |4 ) with optically-allowed transitions from/to state |1 ; these transitions give rise to absorption features depicted in Figure . Because there are no optically-allowed transitions to the sink state (|2 ), relaxation from states |3 and |4 to the this state is purely non-radiative and is modeled by the Lindbladian terms