ABSTRACT
In previous chapters, optical properties of isolated plasmon
nanoparticles were considered. These properties turn out to be
very interesting and to have a range of significant applications. It
was shown that they depend substantially on the nanoparticles’
shapes. However, in all typical cases the plasmon localization region
in one isolated particle coincides with its volume, more or less.
Plasmon wavefunctions of single particles and the spectrum of their
oscillations are similar to the atoms’ wavefunctions in general, and
thus they can be referred to as “plasmon atoms.”
