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Peculiarities of surface plasmons in quantum plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2013

YURIY O. TYSHETSKIY
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia ([email protected])
S. V. VLADIMIROV
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia ([email protected]) Metamaterials Laboratory, National Research University of Information Technology, Mechanics, and Optics, St Petersburg 199034, Russia
R. KOMPANEETS
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia ([email protected])

Abstract

Surface plasmons (SP) in a semi-bounded quantum plasma with degenerate electrons (e.g. a metal) are considered, and some interesting consequences of electron Pauli blocking for the SP dispersion and temporal attenuation are discussed. In particular, it is demonstrated that a semi-bounded degenerate plasma with a sharp boundary supports two types of SP with distinct frequencies and qualitatively different temporal attenuation, in contrast to a non-degenerate hot plasma that only supports one type of SP.

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