Electron sound in metals

Details Electron sound in metals Electron sound in metals

2011-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/1103.4573v1

Low Temperature Physics 35, 724 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

11 pages, 11 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3224732

This paper is devoted to the investigation of electron sound -- oscillations of the electron distribution function coupled with elastic deformation and propagating with the Fermi velocity. The amplitude-phase relations characterizing the behavior of the electron sound in Ga single crystals are determined experimentally. A model problem of excitation of electron sound in a compensated metal with equivalent bands is solved for a finite sample with diffusive scattering of electrons at the interfaces. It was found that the displacement amplitude of the receiving interface is two orders of magnitude larger than the elastic amplitude of the wave due to electron pressure. It was established that the changes occurring in the amplitude and phase of the electron sound waves at a superconducting transition do not depend on the path traversed by the wave, i.e. they refer only to the behavior of the transformation coefficient.

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