Surface-plasmon dispersion relations in chains of metallic nanoparticles: An exact quasistatic calculation

Sung Yong Park and David Stroud
Phys. Rev. B 69, 125418 – Published 29 March 2004
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Abstract

We calculate the surface-plasmon dispersion relations for a periodic chain of spherical metallic nanoparticles in an isotropic host, including all multipole modes, in a generalized tight-binding approach. For sufficiently small particles (kd1, where k is the wave vector and d is the interparticle separation), the calculation is exact. The lowest bands differ only slightly from previous point-dipole calculations provided the particle radius ad/3, but differ substantially at smaller separation. We also calculate the dispersion relations for many higher bands, and estimate the group velocity vg and the exponential decay length ξD for energy propagation for the lowest two bands due to single-grain damping. For a/d=0.33, the result for ξD is in qualitative agreement with experiments on gold nanoparticle chains, while for smaller separation, such as a/d=0.45, vg and ξD are expected to be strongly k dependent because of the multipole corrections. When the particles touch, we predict percolation effects in the spectrum, and find surprising symmetry in the plasmon band structure. Finally, we reformulate the band-structure equations for a Drude metal in the time domain, and suggest how to include localized driving electric fields in the equations of motion.

  • Received 14 November 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.69.125418

©2004 American Physical Society

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Sung Yong Park and David Stroud

  • Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA

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Vol. 69, Iss. 12 — 15 March 2004

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