plasmon 1

noundomain: natural obj.
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a quantum of collective electron oscillation in a metal, considered as a quasiparticle.

  • 1.The plasmon was initially proposed in 1952 by David Pines and David Bohm and was shown to arise from a Hamiltonian for the long-range electron-electron correlations.
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