Peculiarities of Surface Plasmons in Quantum Plasmas
Plasma Physics
2015-06-12 v1 Quantum Gases
Abstract
Surface plasmons (SP) in a semi-bounded quantum plasma with degenerate electrons (e.g., a metal) is considered, and some interesting consequences of electron Pauli blocking for the SP dispersion and temporal attenuation are discussed. In particular, it is demonstrated that a semi-bounded degenerate plasma with a sharp boundary supports two types of SP with distinct frequencies and qualitatively different temporal attenuation, in contrast to a non-degenerate plasma that only supports one type of SP \citep{Guernsey_1969}.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1212.3039,
title = {Peculiarities of Surface Plasmons in Quantum Plasmas},
author = {Yuriy O. Tyshetskiy and Sergey V. Vladimirov and Roman Kompaneets},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.3039},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Journal of Plasma Physics. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1111.6723