Exchange and correlation effects in the relaxation of hot electrons in noble metals

Details Exchange and correlation effects in the relaxation of hot electrons in noble metals Exchange and correlation effects in the relaxation of hot electrons in noble metals

2004-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0404392v1

Phys. Rev. B 69, 245106 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

9 pages, 8 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.69.245106

We report extensive first-principles calculations of the inelastic lifetime of low-energy electrons in the noble metals Cu, Ag, and Au. The quasiparticle self-energy is computed with full inclusion of exchange and correlation (xc) effects, in the framework of the GW\Gamma approximation of many-body theory. Although exchange and correlation may considerably reduce both the screening and the bare interaction of hot electrons with the Fermi gas, these corrections have opposite signs. Our results indicate that the overall effect of short-range xc is small and GW\Gamma linewidths are close to their xc-free G^0W^0 counterparts, as occurs in the case of a free-electron gas.

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