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Collective electronic excitations on the MgB2(0001) surfaces. / Silkin, Vyacheslav M.; Chulkov, Evgenii V.; Echenique, Pedro M.
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T1 - Collective electronic excitations on the MgB2(0001) surfaces
AU - Silkin, Vyacheslav M.
AU - Chulkov, Evgenii V.
AU - Echenique, Pedro M.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - MgB
KW - Surface plasmon
KW - Surface states
KW - MgB2
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071610494&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/bs.aiq.2019.07.001
DO - 10.1016/bs.aiq.2019.07.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85071610494
VL - 80
SP - 147
EP - 174
JO - Advances in Quantum Chemistry
JF - Advances in Quantum Chemistry
SN - 0065-3276
ER -
ID: 49579445