The optical properties and electronic structure of liquid mercury and mercury-indium alloys
- 1 October 1967
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Advances in Physics
- Vol. 16 (64) , 675-680
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00018736700101785
Abstract
Recent experimental values for the optical constants of liquid mercury are shown to differ appreciably from free electron values. An apparent violation of the sum rule by the experimental results can be explained by considering the influence of the core electrons. The optical constants of liquid mercury-indium alloys (4.9–33.4 at. % In) show some agreement with free electron theory with a suitable choice of relaxation time. The significance of these results for Mott's (1966) theory of the electronic structure of liquid mercury is discussed.Keywords
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