Electronic Excitations at Metal Surfaces

✍ Scribed by Ansgar Liebsch (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 346
• Series: Physics of Solids and Liquids
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Density Functional Theory of Metal Surfaces....Pages 5-48
Surface Plasmons....Pages 49-143
Nonlocal Optics....Pages 145-212
Nonlinear Optics....Pages 213-270
Van der Waals Attraction....Pages 271-282
Electron-Hole Pair Creation....Pages 283-308
Back Matter....Pages 309-336

✦ Subjects

Solid State Physics;Spectroscopy and Microscopy