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We theoretically investigate plasmon polaritons in cubic lattices of spherical metallic nanoparticles. The nanoparticles, each supporting triply-degenerate localized surface plasmons, couple through the Coulomb dipole-dipole interaction,…

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In metals in the vicinity of a polar transition, interactions between electrons and soft phonon modes remain to be determined. Here we explore the consequences of spin-orbit assisted electron-phonon coupling on the collective modes of such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-27 Abhishek Kumar , Premala Chandra , Pavel A. Volkov

The paper reports on a study of electron-phonon interaction within a limited nanosized region. We invoked the modified Fr\"{o}hlich's Hamiltonian to calculate the electron self-energy, as well as the elastic and inelastic scattering cross…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 K. V. Reich

We study the mesoscopic fluctuations of thermodynamic observables in a nanosized metallic grain in which the single-particle dynamics are chaotic and the dimensionless Thouless conductance is large. Such a grain is modeled by the universal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Konstantin N. Nesterov , Y. Alhassid

We obtained the electron-lattice energy transfer constant in metal nanoparticles (MN), in quantum-mechanical and classical approach using the deformation potential Bardeen-Shockley and found the changes of the electron-lattice energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-13 Petro Tomchuk , Yevgen Bilotsky

With recent experiments investigating the optical properties of progressively smaller plasmonic particles, quantum effects become increasingly more relevant, requiring a microscopic description. Using the density matrix formalism we analyze…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Alexandra Crai , Andreas Pusch , Doris E. Reiter , Lara Román Castellanos , Tilmann Kuhn , Ortwin Hess

We investigate light-matter coupling in metallic crystals where plasmons coexist with phonons exhibiting large oscillator strength. We demonstrate theoretically that this coexistence can lead to strong light-matter interactions without…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-25 David Hagenmüller , Johannes Schachenmayer , Cyriaque Genet , Thomas W. Ebbesen , Guido Pupillo

The theory of Raman scattering by the electron--phonon coupled system in metals and heavily doped semiconductors is developed taking into account the Coulomb screening and the electron--phonon deformation interaction. The Boltzmann equation…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Falkovsky

Pairing of particles, in particular electrons, in high temperature plasma is generally not expected to occur. Here we investigate, based on earlier work, the possibility for electron pairing mediated in the presence of various kinds of…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 R. A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann

We present a theory of the low-energy excitations of a ferromagnetic metal nanoparticle. In addition to the particle-hole excitations, which occur in a paramagnetic metal nanoparticle, we predict a branch of excitations involving the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. M. Canali , A. H. MacDonald

The phonon thermal contribution to the melting temperature of nano-particles is inspected. The discrete summation of phonon states and its corresponding integration form as an approximation for a nano-particle or for a bulk system have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Xiao-Hong Sui , Zongguo Wang , Kai Kang , Shaojing Qin , Chuilin Wang

Recent experiments have demonstrated that the performances of organic FETs strongly depend on the dielectric properties of the gate insulator. In particular, it has been shown that the temperature dependence of the mobility evolves from a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Fratini , A. F. Morpurgo , S. Ciuchi

A simple bulk model of electron-phonon coupling in metals has been surprisingly successful in explaining experiments on metal films that actually involve surface- or other low-dimensional phonons. However, by an exact application of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. -X. Qu , A. N. Cleland , M. R. Geller

Arrays of metallic nanoparticles support individual and collective plasmonic excitations that contribute to unusual phenomena like surface enhanced Raman scattering, anomalous transparency, negative index, and subwavelength resolution in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Ponizovskaya , A. M. Bratkovsky

Metal nanoparticles are excellent light absorbers. The absorption processes create highly excited electron-hole pairs and recently there has been interest in harnessing these hot charge carriers for photocatalysis and solar energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Gregory V. Hartland , Lucas V. Besteiro , Paul Johns , Alexander O. Govorov

Electron-phonon interactions (EPIs) represent a fundamental cornerstone of condensed matter physics, commanding persistent attention due to their pivotal role in driving novel quantum phenomena within low-dimensional materials. Here, we…

The transformation of electromagnetic energy into matter represents a fascinating prediction of relativistic quantum electrodynamics that is paradigmatically exemplified by the creation of electron-positron pairs out of light. However, this…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-23 Valerio Di Giulio , F. Javier García de Abajo

The polaron features due to electron-phonon interactions with different coupling ranges are investigated by adopting a variational approach. The ground-state energy, the spectral weight, the average kinetic energy, the mean number of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 C. A. Perroni , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , V. Marigliano Ramaglia

Coulomb interactions can have a decisive effect on the ground state of electronic systems. The simplest system in which interactions can play an interesting role is that of two electrons on a string. In the presence of strong interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-24 S. Pecker , F. Kuemmeth , A. Secchi , M. Rontani , D. C. Ralph , P. L. McEuen , S. Ilani

Theoretical analysis dealing with the interaction of electrons with the polar long-wavelength transverse optical (TO) vibrations is presented. The theory is based on the model of a polar crystal with classical potentials, which takes into…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-10 Aleksandr Pishtshev