Correlated motion of electrons on the Au(111) surface: Anomalous acoustic surface-plasmon dispersion and single-particle excitations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Vattuone, L ^a   Smerieri, M ^a   Langer, T ^b   Tegenkamp, C ^b   Pfnur H ^b   Silkin, V M ^c,d,e   Chulkov, E V ^c,d,f   Echenique, P M ^c,d,f   Rocca, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

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

^d DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^e BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^f CENTRO MIXTO CSIC UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATED MOTIONS; INTRABAND TRANSITIONS; LINEAR DISPERSION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; SHOCKLEY SURFACE STATE; SINGLE PARTICLE EXCITATIONS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS;

ENERGY CONVERSION; GRAPHENE; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84875417525     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.127405     Document Type: Article

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