Solid State Communications, Printed in Great Britain.
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pp.21-27,
1985.
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THEORY OF DISORDERED COULOMB SYSTEkl:HIGH-FREQUEECY TRANSVERSE CONDUCTIVITY IN LIQUID kETALS V.B.Bobrov and S.A.Trigger Institute of High Temperatures, Academy of Sciences of the USSR Izhorskaya 13/19, Bnoscow127412, USSR ( Received 27 June 1985 by G.S.ZManov > A general expression for the long-wave frequency-dependent obtained previously transverse conductivity dtr (k+O,O) for disordered Coulomb system is applied to description of optical properties of liquid metals. Using the COPW basis one can separate contributions to d "(k+O,ti) from localized and delocalized electron states. The calculations performed for liquid Na explain frequency dependences of the effective mass m*(o) and the collision frequency V(l)),
dent conductivity was obtained4 for arbitrary frequencies, but with a statically screened electron-ion potential in the random-phase approximation (RPA) for electrons. Dynamical polarization effects in the adiabatic approximation for ions and using RPA for electrona were considered later596. The most consistent description of the frequency-dependent and correlational effects in the high-frequency conductivity of simple liquid metals has been given7 within the framework of the pseudopotential method. A model Hamiltonian has been used where localized electron states have not been taken into account explicitly. The present work is based upon a general approach using the COPW method (cf. the preceding communication) which is applied to the exact expression for the transverse conductivity of the Coulomb system. Thus localized electron states and the effects of the environment are involved in the consideration explicitly. Though these effects are negligible for alkali metals far from the critical point, they are dominating
1. Detailed experimental information on optical properties of liquid metals has been obtained in the past few years'. The results on alcali metals are especially important, as they are an object most simple and suitable for theoretical investigation. New theoretical schemes developed for more complicated (say, transition ) metals must be tested first on alkali metals. Frequency dependence6 of the real and imaginary parts of conductivity of liquid Na were measured2 comprehensively at a temperature of 120' C in the fre3.8 eV. A frequency range 0.6
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for transition metals, as well as for simple metals at high pressures. 2. The linear response method has been applied' to derive general expressions for the long-wave limits of the longitudinal and transverse dielectric permittivities, E'(k+O,W), ftr(k+O,c)), for a disordered Coulomb system at arbitrary frequencies end the interaction intensity. Unlike the standard results of kinetic theory, it was shown that &l(k+O,O) # &tr(k+O,O), even though at certain frequencies these quantities are equal approximately. The longitudinal dielectric permittivity, describing the response to the longitudinal field induced by external sources,is
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where f(t) =idFf($,t); $(F,t) is the Heisenberg operator of the electric current density, <...> fi stands for averaging over the Gibbs ensemble with the exact Coulomb system Hamiltonian H. It follows from (1) that damping of the plasma oscillations in the conventional kinetic theory results from the use of perturbation theory in Y(O) and I((C9) nearO=Wp , where it is never valid. The static conductivity is determined from (1) and the relation
An expression for the transverse dieleot-
= L&&!!pq~- v$ + &+k-cO,G,) This expression predicts a non-damped plasmon mode,O=WpP (F4KZt&,,.,.,J%
ric permittivity has been obtained8 in terms ofY(O) and l((O) ,