TY - JOUR
T1 - Statistics for Surface Modes of Nanoparticles with Shape Fluctuations
AU - Felix Rüting & Hannes Uecker
JO - Communications in Computational Physics
VL - 5
SP - 1224
EP - 1241
PY - 2010
DA - 2010/08
SN - 8
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.230210.260310a
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7614.html
KW - 
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">We develop a numerical method for approximating the surface modes of
sphere-like nanoparticles in the quasi-static limit, based on an expansion of (the angular
part of) the potentials into spherical harmonics. Comparisons of the results obtained
in this manner with exact solutions and with a perturbation ansatz prove that
the scheme is accurate if the shape deviations from a sphere are not too large. The
method allows fast calculations for large numbers of particles, and thus to obtain statistics
for nanoparticles with random shape fluctuations. As an application we present
some statistics for the distribution of resonances, polariziabilities, and dipole axes for
particles with random perturbations.</p>