Quasiparticle lifetimes in metallic quantum-well nanostructures

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 782-785

  Kirchmann, Patrick S ^a,b   Rettig, Laurenz ^a   Zubizarreta, Xabier ^c,d   Silkin, Vyacheslav M ^c,d,e   Chulkov, Evgueni V ^c,d,f   Bovensiepen, Uwe ^a,g  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^e BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^f CENTRO MIXTO CSIC UPV EHU   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONS; FERMIONS; HOT ELECTRONS; LIQUIDS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHASE SPACE METHODS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON CONFINEMENT; ELECTRON-ELECTRON SCATTERING; FEMTOSECOND TIME SCALE; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES; TIME RESOLVED TWO-PHOTON PHOTOEMISSION; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

FERMI LIQUIDS;

EID: 77957604762     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1735     Document Type: Article

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