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Volume 109, Number 3, February 2015
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Article Number | 35001 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Physics of Gases, Plasmas and Electric Discharges | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/109/35001 | |
Published online | 19 February 2015 |
Influence of electron spin-interaction on the propagation of the symmetric and anti-symmetric surface plasma waves in a quantum plasma slab
1 Department of Electronics Engineering, Catholic University of Daegu - Hayang, 712-702, South Korea
2 Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180-3590, USA
3 Department of Applied Physics and Department of Bionanotechnology, Hanyang University - Ansan, Kyunggi-Do 426-791, South Korea
Received: 15 October 2014
Accepted: 22 January 2015
The influence of electron spin-interaction is investigated on the propagation of the symmetric and the anti-symmetric modes of the surface plasma waves in a quantum plasma slab. It is found that the electron spin-interaction effect enhances the phase and group velocities of the surface wave in a quantum plasma slab. It is also found that the phase and group velocities of the symmetric mode are always greater than those of the anti-symmetric mode in a quantum plasma slab. In addition, the influence of electron spin-interaction on the surface plasma wave diminishes the backward propagation domain of the anti-symmetric mode in bounded quantum plasmas. The variation of the physical characteristics of the surface quantum plasma waves due to the electron spin-interaction is also discussed.
PACS: 52.20.-j – Elementary processes in plasmas / 71.10.Ca – Electron gas, Fermi gas
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