nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqknzsux7p6lzwzdedp3m8c3c92z0swzc0xyy5glvse58txj5e9ztqaufa4k (nprofile…fa4k) I'll take the compliment; thank you!
I think it's a case where I intuitively realised two things were connected but never got round to putting the effort to think about it carefully enough to get the correspondence correct.
Interestingly, a case where first order harmonics do appear is in plasmons in gold nanoparticles, where the principal modes can be thought of as the electron cloud oscillating from side to side relative to the mass of the nanoparticle.
IIRC, these are usually stimulated by laser, but are 10 (possibly more...?) times smaller than the optical wavelength, so can be used to create large local field strengths and interrogate matter on a sub-wavelength scale. Or to make pretty glass... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycurgus_Cup
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