Quantum mechanical model for charge excitation: Surface binding and dispersion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12111v2
• Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:25:50 GMT
• Title: Quantum mechanical model for charge excitation: Surface binding and dispersion
• Abstract summary: We describe the dispersion of nonretarded electromagnetic waves that express charge density oscillations near a fixed plane in 3D at zero temperature.<n>Our goal is to capture the interplay of microscopic scales that include a confinement length in the emergence of the surface plasmon.<n>In the semiclassical regime, our result furnishes an expansion for the energy spectrum.
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• Abstract: By an idealized quantum mechanical model, we formally describe the dispersion of nonretarded electromagnetic waves that express charge density oscillations near a fixed plane in three spatial dimensions (3D) at zero temperature. Our goal is to capture the interplay of microscopic scales that include a confinement length in the emergence of the surface plasmon, a collective low-energy charge excitation in the vicinity of the plane. We start with a time-dependent Hartree-type equation in 3D. This model accounts for particle binding to the plane and the repulsive Coulomb interaction associated with the induced charge density relative to the ground state. By linearizing the equation of motion, we formulate a homogeneous integral equation for the scattering amplitude of the particle wave function in the (z-) coordinate vertical to the plane. For a binding potential proportional to a negative delta function and symmetric-in-z wave function, we apply the Laplace transform with respect to positive z and convert the integral equation into a functional equation that involves several values of the transformed solution. The scattering amplitude and dispersion relation are derived exactly in terms of rapidly convergent series via the Mittag-Leffler theorem. In the semiclassical regime, our result furnishes an asymptotic expansion for the energy excitation spectrum. The leading-order term is found in agreement with the prediction of a classical hydrodynamic model based on a projected-Euler-Poisson system.

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