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Modal approximation for plasmonic resonators in the time domain: the scalar case

Mathematical Physics 2021-02-11 v1 Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We study the electromagnetic field scattered by a metallic nanoparticle with dispersive material parameters in a resonant regime. We consider the particle placed in a homogeneous medium in a low-frequency regime. We define modes for the non-Hermitian problem as perturbations of electrostatic modes, and obtain a modal approximation of the scattered field in the frequency domain. The poles of the expansion correspond to the eigenvalues of a singular boundary integral operator and are shown to lie in a bounded region near the origin of the lower-half complex plane. Finally, we show that this modal representation gives a very good approximation of the field in the time domain. We present numerical simulations in two dimensions to corroborate our results.

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@article{arxiv.2102.05427,
  title  = {Modal approximation for plasmonic resonators in the time domain: the scalar case},
  author = {Lorenzo Baldassari and Pierre Millien and Alice L. Vanel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.05427},
  year   = {2021}
}
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