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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 85, Issue 15, Pages 3241-3244Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3241
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Hole dynamics;in noble metals (Cu and An) is investigated by means of first-principles many-body calculations. While holes in a free-electron gas are known to live shorter than electrons with the same excitation energy, our results indicate that d holes in noble metals exhibit longer inelastic lifetimes than excited sp electrons, in agreement with experiment. The density of states available for d-hole decay is larger than that for the decay of excited electrons; however, the small overlap between d and sp states below the Fermi level increases the d-hole lifetime. The impact of d-hole dynamics on electron-hole correlation effects is also addressed.
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