Landau damping of surface plasmons in metal nanostructures
| Title: | Landau damping of surface plasmons in metal nanostructures |
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| Authors: | Shahbazyan, Tigran V. |
| Source: | Phys. Rev. B 94, 235431 (2016) |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Collection: | Condensed Matter Physics (Other) |
| Subject Terms: | Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Physics - Optics |
| More Details: | We develop a quantum-mechanical theory for Landau damping of surface plasmons in metal nanostructures larger that the characteristic length for nonlocal effects. We show that the electron surface scattering, which facilitates plasmon decay in small nanostructures, can be incorporated into the metal dielectric function on par with phonon and impurity scattering. The derived surface scattering rate is determined by the plasmon local field polarization relative to the metal-dielectric interface and is highly sensitive to the system geometry. We illustrate our model by providing analytical results for surface scattering rate in some common shape nanostructures. Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.235431 |
| Access URL: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1611.08670 |
| Accession Number: | edsarx.1611.08670 |
| Database: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.235431 |
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