Quantum effects and nonlocality in strongly coupled plasmonic nanowire dimers

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 27306-27325

  Teperik, Tatiana V ^a   Nordlander, Peter ^b   Aizpurua, Javier ^c,d   Borisov, Andrei G ^d,e  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^e INSTITUT DES SCIENCES MOLÉCULAIRES D ORSAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL SCREENING; ELECTROMAGNETIC CALCULATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMIC DESCRIPTION; QUANTUM MECHANICAL EFFECTS; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; TRANSLATIONAL INVARIANCE; VARIABLE SEPARATION;

ELECTRON TUNNELING; HYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84887456066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.027306     Document Type: Conference Paper

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