Temperature Damping of Plasmons in Nonparabolic Band

• Authors: Stefan Goettig
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Damping of plasmons in the nonparabolic free-carrier band of a semiconductor is considered within RPA. Due to the nonparabolic band shape the temperature broadening of plasmons is strongly reduced and even at high temperatures plasmons with large wavevectors may exist as undamped excitations.

Keywords

EN

71.45.Gm

Discipline

• 71.45.Gm: Exchange, correlation, dielectric and magnetic response functions, plasmons

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 1991
• Volume: 79
• Issue: 2-3
• Pages: 333-336

Dates

published

1991-02

received

1990-08-08

Contributors

author

Stefan Goettig

• Institute of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.79.333