Peculiarities of Surface Plasmons in Quantum Plasmas

Abstract

Surface plasmons (SP) in a semi-bounded quantum plasma with degenerate electrons (e.g., a metal) is 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 plasma that only supports one type of SP \citep{Guernsey_1969}.

10 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Journal of Plasma Physics. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1111.6723

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