Erfan Mahmoudi - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

Uploads

Papers by Erfan Mahmoudi

The Journal of Chemical Physics

In the new field of quantum plasmonics, plasmonic excitations of silver and gold nanoparticles ar... more In the new field of quantum plasmonics, plasmonic excitations of silver and gold nanoparticles are utilized to manipulate and control light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. While quantum plasmons can be described with atomistic detail with Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) such studies are computationally challenging due to the size of the nanoparticles. An efficient alternative is to employ DFT without approximations only for the relatively fast ground state calculation and use tight-binding approximations in the demanding linear response calculations. In this work we use this approach to investigate the nature of plasmonic excitations under the variation of the separation distance between two nanoparticles. We thereby provide complementary characterizations of these excitations in terms of Kohn-Sham single-orbital transitions, intrinsic localized molecular fragment orbitals, scaling of the electron-electron interactions, and probability of electron tunneling between monomers.

The Journal of Chemical Physics

In the new field of quantum plasmonics, plasmonic excitations of silver and gold nanoparticles ar... more In the new field of quantum plasmonics, plasmonic excitations of silver and gold nanoparticles are utilized to manipulate and control light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. While quantum plasmons can be described with atomistic detail with Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) such studies are computationally challenging due to the size of the nanoparticles. An efficient alternative is to employ DFT without approximations only for the relatively fast ground state calculation and use tight-binding approximations in the demanding linear response calculations. In this work we use this approach to investigate the nature of plasmonic excitations under the variation of the separation distance between two nanoparticles. We thereby provide complementary characterizations of these excitations in terms of Kohn-Sham single-orbital transitions, intrinsic localized molecular fragment orbitals, scaling of the electron-electron interactions, and probability of electron tunneling between monomers.

Log In