Linewidth of the plasma resonance in the alkali metals
- 15 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 17 (2) , 549-553
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.17.549
Abstract
Plasmons excited in the alkali metals, with wave vector smaller than the Fermi wave vector, decay via interband transitions. This damping mechanism explains the variation of plasmon width with wave vector and atomic number in a very simple model calculation.Keywords
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