Mathematical analysis of electromagnetic scattering by dielectric nanoparticles with high refractive indices

Ammari, Habib; Li, Bowen; Zou, Jun

doi:10.1090/tran/8641

Mathematical analysis of electromagnetic scattering by dielectric nanoparticles with high refractive indices
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by Habib Ammari, Bowen Li and Jun Zou;

Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 376 (2023), 39-90

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/8641

Published electronically: October 24, 2022

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Abstract:

In this work, we are concerned with the mathematical modeling of the electromagnetic (EM) scattering by arbitrarily shaped non-magnetic nanoparticles with high refractive indices. When illuminated by visible light, such particles can exhibit a very strong isotropic magnetic response, resulting from the coupling of the incident wave with the circular displacement currents of the EM fields. The main aim of this work is to mathematically illustrate this phenomenon. We shall first introduce the EM scattering resolvent and the concept of dielectric subwavelength resonances. Then we derive the a priori estimates for the subwavelength resonances and the associated resonant modes. We also show the existence of resonances and obtain their asymptotic expansions in terms of the small particle size and the high contrast parameter. After that, we investigate the enhancement of the scattering amplitude and the cross sections when the resonances occur. In doing so, we develop a novel multipole radiation framework that directly separates the electric and magnetic multipole moments and allows us to clearly see their orders of magnitude and blow-up rates. We prove that at the dielectric subwavelength resonant frequencies, the nanoparticles with high refractive indices behave like the sum of the electric dipole and the resonant magnetic dipole. Some explicit calculations and numerical experiments are also provided to validate our general results and formulas.

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