Surface plasmon dispersion for very small metallic spheres: A quantum mechanical formulation

Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter - Tập 27 - Trang 75-79 - 1977
Basab B. Dasgupta1
1Department of Physics and Laboratory for Surface Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA

Tóm tắt

We have derived a pair of matrix equations describing the surface plasmon dispersion for a very small spherical metal particle, using the quantum mechanical random-phase approximation (RPA). The surface of the sphere is represented by an infinite spherical potential well for the conduction electrons and the positive ions are assumed to be uniformly distributed into a “jellium”. The dispersion relation is obtained as the condition that a solution of the RPA integral equation for charge fluctuation would exist for the particle.

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