Many-body effects in Auger deexcitation of atoms near solids
- 15 May 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 9 (10), 4038-4041
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.9.4038
Abstract
The role of many-body effects in the radiationless decay of an excited atom in the vicinity of a metallic surface is studied. In particular we calculate the decay rate for deexcitation by surface-plasmon emission and find it to be a rather likely process. The rate depends on the surface-plasmon dispersion relation and such atomic properties as the oscillator strength and the radiation frequency corresponding to the transition.Keywords
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