Role of the surface in the electronic effective mass of metal microclusters
- 1 February 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 49 (2) , 1115-1118
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.49.1115
Abstract
The renormalization of the motion of the valence electrons in metal clusters arising from the coupling to the fluctuations of the cluster surface is calculated. Sizable effects are found, which lead to renormalization coefficients which deviate 30–40 % from unity.Keywords
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