a Laboratoire de Physique Moléculaire et Chimie Quantique, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062, Toulouse Cedex, France
b Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Erlangen, Staudtst. 7, D-91077, Erlangen, Germany
Abstract:
The optical response of sodium clusters is studied using fully three-dimensional electronic dynamics, in real time, with an explicit ionic background. The obtained spectra are shown to come close to experimental results for free clusters. We use the approach also to compute the response of sodium clusters deposited on a NaCl(1 0 0) surface. The flattening of the clusters induced by the surface results in a shift and a large fragmentation of the plasmon resonance.