• Vyacheslav M. Silkin
  • Evgenii V. Chulkov
  • Pedro M. Echenique

The surface excitation spectra of the B-terminated and Mg-terminated MgB2(0001) surfaces are studied in the ab initio time-dependent density functional theory approach. The band structure of both these surfaces is fully included into evaluation of the surface response function using a linear response approach. We find that different surface electronic structures for these surface terminations result in very different surface collective electronic excitations. Due to a number of surface states and peculiarity of the MgB2 dielectric properties several surface plasmons, such as surface plasmon, interband surface plasmon, acoustic surface plasmon, and others have been found. We trace their evolution with momentum transfer change on both surfaces. Whereas at vanishing momentum transfers the plasmons in both systems can be understood considering the bulk MgB2 dielectric function, upon momentum increase the collective excitations present very different behavior. We relay such behavior to the differences in the surface electronic structure of the studied terminations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)147-174
JournalAdvances in Quantum Chemistry
Volume80
Early online date3 Sep 2019
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

    Research areas

  • MgB, Surface plasmon, Surface states, MgB2

    Scopus subject areas

  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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