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Electromagnetic response of broken-symmetry nano-scale clusters

Ilya Grigorenko, Stephan Haas, A. F. J. Levi

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0607252

Abstract

A microscopic, non-local response theory is developed to model the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with inhomogeneous nano-scale clusters. The breakdown of classical continuum-field Mie theory is demonstrated at a critical coarse-graining threshold, below which macroscopic plasmon resonances are replaced by molecular excitations with suppressed spectral intensity.

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