Unusual resonances in nanoplasmonic structures due to nonlocal response

Søren Raza, Giuseppe Toscano, Antti-Pekka Jauho, Martijn Wubs, N. Asger Mortensen

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    Abstract

    We study the nonlocal response of a confined electron gas within the hydrodynamical Drude model. We address the question as to whether plasmonic nanostructures exhibit nonlocal resonances that have no counterpart in the local-response Drude model. Avoiding the usual quasistatic approximation, we find that such resonances do indeed occur, but only above the plasma frequency. Thus the recently found nonlocal resonances at optical frequencies for very small structures, obtained within quasistatic approximation, are unphysical. As a specific example we consider nanosized metallic cylinders, for which extinction cross sections and field distributions can be calculated analytically.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalPhysical Review B Condensed Matter
    Volume84
    Issue number12
    Pages (from-to)121412
    ISSN0163-1829
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011

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    Copyright 2011 American Physical Society.

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