  We discuss a self-consistent scheme for treating the optical response of
large, hybrid networks of semiconducting quantum dots (SQDs) and plasmonic
metallic nanoparticles (MNPs). Our method is efficient and scalable and becomes
exact in the limiting case of weakly interacting SQDs. The self-consistent
equations obtained for the steady state are analogous to the von Neumann
equations of motion for the density matrix of a SQD placed in an effective
electric field computed within the discrete dipole approximation. Illustrative
applications of the theory to square and honeycomb SQD, MNP, and hybrid SDQ-MNP
lattices as well as SQD-MNP dimers are presented. Our results demonstrate that
hybrid SQD-MNP lattices can provide flexible platforms for light manipulation
with tunable resonant characteristics.
