The determination of the lifetime of hot electrons in metals by time-resolved two-photon photoemission: the role of transport effects, virtual states, and transient excitons |
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Authors: | W Ekardt W-D Schöne R Keyling |
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Institution: | (1) Fritz-Haber Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4–6, 14195 Berlin, Germany, DE |
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Abstract: | Experience has shown that theoretically determined lifetimes of bulk states of hot electrons in real metals agree quantitatively
with the experimental ones, if theory fully takes into account the crystal structure and many-body effects of the investigated
metal, i.e., if the Dyson equation is solved at the ab initio level and the effective electron–electron interaction is determined beyond the plasmon-pole approximation. Therefore the
hitherto invoked transport effect Knoesel et al.: Phys. Rev. B 57, 12812 (1998)] does not seem to exist. In this paper we show that likewise neither virtual states Hertel: et al. Phys. Rev.
Lett. 76, 535 (1996)] nor damped band-gap states Ogawa: et al.: Phys. Rev. B 55, 10869 (1997)] exist, but that the hitherto unexplained d-band catastrophe in Cu Cu(111), Cu(110)] can be naturally resolved
by the concept of the transient exciton. This is a new quasiparticle in metals, which owes its existence to the dynamical character of dielectric screening at the microscopic level. This means that excitons, though they do not exist under stationary
conditions, can be observed under ultrafast experimental conditions.
Received: 30 March 2000 / Accepted: 2 September 2000 / Published online: 12 October 2000 |
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Keywords: | PACS: 78 47 +p 72 15 Lh 71 10 -w 71 20 Gj |
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