Many-Body Effects in Photoemission
- 23 February 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 24 (8), 386-390
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.24.386
Abstract
A many-body formalism utilizing a tunneling operator is proposed for the photoemission process, thereby avoiding the artificial separation of the process into distinct steps. The lowest-order term in the formalism, corresponding to surface scattering, is developed in detail for simple metals. Energy-distribution curves from this "surface term" are presented for both free and interacting electrons. Many-body effects, including plasmarons, are prominent in the latter and have tentative experimental support.Keywords
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