scholarly journals Full conserving dielectric function for plasmas at any degeneracy

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel D. Barriga-Carrasco

AbstractDielectric functions of an electron plasma are calculated for an electron gas in which number, momentum, and energy are conserved during electron-electron collisions. They are compared with others in the literature, revealing that, in general, that imposition of the conservation laws tends to make the full conserving dielectric response more similar to the random phase approximation dielectric response than without it. This is due to the fact that in the random phase approximation model all the conservation laws are also enforced. Our model is checked for other plasma degeneracies; concretely we consider partially degenerate plasmas and classical plasmas. The behaviour of the dielectric functions of these plasmas is similar to the degenerate one. Differences among dielectric functions are more significant than for the degenerate case, but it is mainly due to low relaxation time values. The most relevant issue for these plasmas is the fact that the consideration of energy conservation in the dielectric function is more important in these cases, because plasma temperature is significant.

Open Physics ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Željana Bonačić Lošić ◽  
Paško Županović

AbstractThe dielectric response is considered within models of a one-band metal, a two-band insulator and a two-band metal using the semi-classical approximation. Corresponding dielectric functions are found. The dielectric function of two-band metal is found to be the interpolation between the Sellmeyer and Lorenz-Lorentz expressions, respectively. The frequencies of the collective modes are identified as the zeroes of the dielectric functions. The correspondence between the semi-classical approach used in this paper and the many-body calculation within the random-phase approximation is established.


2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (12) ◽  
pp. 1450099 ◽  
Author(s):  
Željana Bonačić Lošić

The dielectric function of a monolayer of molybdenum disulfide is investigated within the model of two-band metal using the random phase approximation (RPA). The large direct bandgap in a monolayer of MoS 2 leads to the appearance of the interband dipolar mode which couples to the intraband plasmon mode. This results in two hybridized modes. The renormalized dipolar mode is close to its bare value, while coupling suppresses the plasmon mode. The obtained modes are responsible for the appearance of dispersing peaks in the energy-loss function.


1985 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. E. Frankel ◽  
K. C. Hines ◽  
V. Kowalenko

The longitudinal dielectric response function of a relativistic gas consisting of charged bosons together with the corresponding antiparticles is obtained in the random phase approximation. The theory is renormalized and an analysis of the mode structure and damping properties of the plasma is carried out.


2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 553-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.D. BARRIGA-CARRASCO ◽  
A.Y. POTEKHIN

The purpose of the present paper is to describe the effects of electron-electron collisions on proton electronic stopping in plasmas of any degeneracy. Plasma targets are considered fully ionized so electronic stopping is only due to the free electrons. The stopping due to free electrons is obtained from an exact quantum mechanical evaluation in the random phase approximation, which takes into account the degeneracy of the target plasma. The result is compared with common classical and degenerate approximations. Differences are around 30% in some cases which can produce bigger mistakes in further energy deposition and projectile range studies. We focus our analysis on plasmas in the limit of weakly coupled plasmas then electron-electron collisions have to be considered. Differences with the same results without taking into account collisions are more than 50%.


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