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The Effective Particle-Hole Interaction and the Optical Response of Simple Metal Clusters

mtrl-th 2009-10-28 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

Following Sham and Rice [L. J. Sham, T. M. Rice, Phys. Rev. 144 (1966) 708] the correlated motion of particle-hole pairs is studied, starting from the general two-particle Greens function. In this way we derive a matrix equation for eigenvalues and wave functions, respectively, of the general type of collective excitation of a N-particle system. The interplay between excitons and plasmons is fully described by this new set of equations. As a by-product we obtain - at least a-posteriori - a justification for the use of the TDLDA for simple-metal clusters.

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@article{arxiv.mtrl-th/9511008,
  title  = {The Effective Particle-Hole Interaction and the Optical Response of Simple Metal Clusters},
  author = {Walter Ekardt and Jorge M. Pacheco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:mtrl-th/9511008},
  year   = {2009}
}

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