Formalism for Multiphoton Plasmon Excitation in Jellium Clusters
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We present a new formalism for the description of multiphoton plasmon excitation processes in jellium clusters. By using our method, we demonstrate that, in addition to dipole plasmon excitations, the multipole plasmons (quadrupole, octupole, etc) can be excited in a cluster by multiphoton absorption processes, which results in a significant difference between plasmon resonance profiles in the cross sections for multiphoton as compared to single-photon absorption. We calculate the cross sections for multiphoton absorption and analyse the balance between the surface and volume plasmon contributions to multipole plasmons.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0202066,
title = {Formalism for Multiphoton Plasmon Excitation in Jellium Clusters},
author = {Jean-Patrick Connerade and Andrey V Solov'yov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0202066},
year = {2009}
}
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29 pages, 1 figure