Electron-hole-pair quenching of excited states near a metal
- 15 November 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 26 (10), 5409-5415
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.26.5409
Abstract
We present a calculation of the nonradiative damping of a dipole outside a metal surface. The calculation uses a realistic surface potential for the metal conduction electrons in contrast to most earlier studies. A simple experiment is suggested to test the theoretical predictions.Keywords
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