on Friday, July 9, 2010

Author(s): Marco Cazzaniga, Lucia Caramella, Nicola Manini, and Giovanni Onida

We introduce a method, based on the linearization of the band dispersion, to include intraband contributions in ab initio calculations of the optical spectra of metals. We illustrate its application to cubic iron and hexagonal magnesium, by analyzing the contributions of interband and intraband tran...

[Phys. Rev. B 82, 035104] Published Wed Jul 07, 2010