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Phys. Rev. Lett. 19, 222–224 (1967)

Nondirect Processes and Optical Properties of Metals

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R. K. Nesbet and P. M. Grant
IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, California

Received 3 May 1967; published in the issue dated 31 July 1967

Recent photoemission studies of noble and transition metals show a predominance of "nondirect" electronic excitations and indicate an anomalous density-of-states peak below the expected d-band. We attribute these observations to second-order (and higher) processes involving secondary phonon- and electron-pair excitations.

© 1967 The American Physical Society

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