Abstract
Theoretical descriptions of molecular optical processes occurring in the presence of a surface plasmon resonance are surveyed in this Perspective. Particular emphasis is placed on semiclassical approaches that blend together first principles molecular quantum mechanics with the full-wave continuum electrodynamics of the molecule's nanoplasmonic environment. It is demonstrated how the latter can be built into the former through many-electron Green's function techniques combined with numerical values of the plasmon's locally scattered field. The effects of the plasmon on the molecule's one-body and many-body electronic structure is described in detail and several open theoretical challenges are discussed. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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