Image states in metal clusters

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2004-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412138v1

Phys. Rev. A 70, 063201 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

5 pages including 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.70.063201

The existence of image states in small clusters is shown, using a quantum-mechanical many-body approach. We present image state energies and wave functions for spherical jellium clusters up to 186 atoms, calculated in the GW approximation, where G is the Green's function, and W the dynamically screened Coulomb interaction, which by construction contains the dynamic long-range correlation effects that give rise to image effects. In addition we find that image states are also subject to quantum confinement. To extrapolate our investigations to clusters in the mesoscopic size range, we propose a semiclassical model potential, which we test against our full GW results.

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