Notice of RetractionDipole and quadrupole resonance modes of symmetric nanoegg dimers in the quasistatic regime

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We study the scattering of light by nanoegg dimers using a computational scheme that allows for the efficient simulation nanoegg dimers. Nanoegg dimers exhibit high field enhancements and field focusing owing to the broken symmetry in the geometry of nanoeggs, in addition to higher tunability than symmetric nanoparticle dimers. We utilize the quasistatic approximation combined with translation relations of spherical harmonic function that allows easier transition between different coordinates systems making the scattering problem easier to solve. We use this scheme to study the two dominant resonance modes in a nanoegg dimer: the dipole and the quadrupole modes.