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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 111, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.093901
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- Leverhulme Trust
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- AFOSR
- EPSRC
- EPSRC [EP/H000917/1, EP/H000917/2, EP/D063329/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/H000917/1, EP/D063329/1, EP/H000917/2] Funding Source: researchfish
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Surface plasmons on metals can concentrate light into subnanometric volumes and on these near atomic length scales the electronic response at the metal interface is smeared out over a Thomas-Fermi screening length. This nonlocality is a barrier to a good understanding of atomic scale response to light and complicates the practical matter of computing the fields. In this Letter, we present a local analogue model and show that spatial nonlocality can be represented by replacing the nonlocal metal with a composite material, comprising a thin dielectric layer on top of a local metal. This method not only makes possible the quantitative analysis of nonlocal effects in complex plasmonic phenomena with unprecedented simplicity and physical insight, but also offers great practical advantages in their numerical treatment.
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