Electronic Excitations at Metal Surfaces / Edition 1

by Ansgar Liebsch

Overview

In this new work, the focus is on the dynamical response of metal electrons to several types of incident electromagnetic fields. The author, an eminent theorist, discusses Time-Dependent Local Density Approximation's importance in both elucidating electronic surface excitations and describing the ground state properties of electronic systems. Chapters detail theoretical formulations and computational procedures, covering such areas as single-particle and collective modes, spatial distribution of the induced surface charges, and local electric fields. Excitation spectra are shown for a variety of clean simple metals, noble metals, chemisorbed overlayers, charged surfaces, and small metal particles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441932716
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	12/06/2010
Series:	Physics of Solids and Liquids
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1997
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 Density Functional Theory of Metal Surfaces.- 3 Surface Plasmons.- 4 Nonlocal Optics.- 5 Nonlinear Optics.- 6 Van der Waals Attraction.- 7 Electron—Hole Pair Creation.