title: Publisher's Note: "Near-field optical effect of a core-shell nanostructure in proximity to a flat surface" [J. Chem. Phys. 140, 044109 (2014)].
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: Wenping
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Mingda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimension Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Zuyang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.affiliation: Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
authors.forename: Qingping
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.affiliation: Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
authors.forename: Yimei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu