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Nature 448, 57-59 (5 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/nature05975; Received 26 January 2007; Accepted 29 May 2007



Low-energy acoustic plasmons at metal surfaces


Bogdan Diaconescu1, Karsten Pohl1, Luca Vattuone2, Letizia Savio2, Philip Hofmann3, Vyacheslav M. Silkin4, Jose M. Pitarke5, Eugene V. Chulkov4, Pedro M. Echenique4, Daniel Farías6 & Mario Rocca7



  1. Department of Physics and Material Science Program, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
  2. CNISM and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
  3. Institute for Storage Ring Facilities and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), University of Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
  4. Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Departamento de Fisica de Materiales and Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU, Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, UPV/EHU, 20018 San Sebastian, Spain
  5. CIC nanoGUNE Consolider and Materia Kondentsatuaren Fisika Saila, UPV/EHU, Mikeletegi Pasealekua 56, E-2009 Donostia, Basque Country, Spain
  6. Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
  7. IMEM-CNR and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy


Correspondence to: Karsten Pohl1 Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to K.P. (Email: karsten.pohl@unh.edu).





Nearly two-dimensional (2D) metallic systems formed in charge inversion layers1 and artificial layered materials2, 3 permit the existence of low-energy collective excitations4, 5, called 2D plasmons, which are not found in a three-dimensional (3D) metal. These excitations have caused considerable interest because their low energy allows them to participate in many dynamical processes involving electrons and phonons3, and because they might mediate the formation of Cooper pairs in high-transition-temperature superconductors6. Metals often support electronic states that are confined to the surface, forming a nearly 2D electron-density layer. However, it was argued that these systems could not support low-energy collective excitations because they would be screened out by the underlying bulk electrons7. Rather, metallic surfaces should support only conventional surface plasmons8—higher-energy modes that depend only on the electron density. Surface plasmons have important applications in microscopy9, 10 and sub-wavelength optics11, 12, 13, but have no relevance to the low-energy dynamics. Here we show that, in contrast to expectations, a low-energy collective excitation mode can be found on bare metal surfaces. The mode has an acoustic (linear) dispersion, different to the Unfortunately we are unable to provide accessible alternative text for this. If you require assistance to access this image, or to obtain a text description, please contact npg@nature.com dependence of a 2D plasmon, and was observed on Be(0001) using angle-resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy. First-principles calculations show that it is caused by the coexistence of a partially occupied quasi-2D surface-state band with the underlying 3D bulk electron continuum and also that the non-local character of the dielectric function prevents it from being screened out by the 3D states. The acoustic plasmon reported here has a very general character and should be present on many metal surfaces. Furthermore, its acoustic dispersion allows the confinement of light on small surface areas and in a broad frequency range, which is relevant for nano-optics and photonics applications.



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