Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Second-harmonic generation by spherical nanoparticles is a non-local optical process that can also be viewed as the result of the nonlinear response of the a interface layer. The classical electrodynamic description, based e.g. on the nonlinear Mie theory, entails the knowledge of the dielectric function and the surface nonlinear optical susceptibility; both quantities are usually assumed to be predetermined, for instance from experiment. We propose here an approach based on the semi-classical approximation for the quantum sum-over-states expression that allows one to capture the second-order optical process from first principles. A key input is the electronic density, which can be obtained from effective single particle approaches such as density-functional theory in the local density implementation. We show that the resulting integral equations can be solved very efficiently rendering thus the treatment of macroscopic systems. As an illustration we present numerical results for the magic Na − 2869 cluster.
Source: New Journal of Physics
Authors: Y Pavlyukh, J Berakdar, W Hübner
Language: English
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,610
Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Awards: G1135753724, G242526838, G3583313079
OpenAlex ID: W1968345573