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Electron relaxation in metals: theory and exact analytical solutions
journal contribution
posted on 2009-02-25, 13:14 authored by V.V. Kabanov, A.S. AlexandrovThe nonequilibrium dynamics of electrons is of a great experimental and theoretical value, providing important
microscopic parameters of the Coulomb and electron-phonon interactions in metals and other cold
plasmas. Because of the mathematical complexity of collision integrals, theories of electron relaxation often
rely on the assumption that electrons are in a “quasiequilibrium” QE with a time-dependent temperature, or
on the numerical integration of the time-dependent Boltzmann equation. We transform the integral Boltzmann
equation to a partial differential Schrödinger-type equation with imaginary time in a one-dimensional “coordinate”
space reciprocal to energy which allows for exact analytical solutions in both cases of electron-electron
and electron-phonon relaxations. The exact relaxation rates are compared with the QE relaxation rates at high
and low temperatures.
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Citation
KABANOV, V.V. and ALEXANDROV, A.S., 2008. Electron relaxation in metals: theory and exact analytical solutions. Physical Review B, 78(17), 174514 pp. 1-8.Publisher
© American Physical SocietyVersion
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2008Notes
This article has been published in the journal, Physical Review B [© American Physical Society]. The definitive version is available at: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.78.174514ISSN
1098-0121Language
- en