Fast electronic relaxation in metal nanoclusters via excitation of coherent shape deformations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Kresin, Vitaly V ^a   Ovchinnikov, Yu N ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

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EID: 33644884245     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.115412     Document Type: Article

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