Surface plasmon dynamics of simple metal clusters excited with femtosecond optical pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Hervieux, P A ^a   Bigot, J Y ^b  

^a Institute de Physique   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE ET CHIMIE DES MATÉRIAUX DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; FERMI LEVEL; GROUND STATE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESONANCE; SURFACE REACTIONS;

ALKALI METAL CLUSTERS; FEMTOSECOND OPTICAL PULSES; LOCAL DENSITY APPROXIMATION (LDA); SURFACE PLASMONS;

LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

EID: 3042520932     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.197402     Document Type: Article

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