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Comments on Vibrational Dynamics of Low Frequency Adsorbate Motion
Published
Author(s)
B N. Persson, John William Gadzuk
Abstract
We discuss the temperature dependence of the electronic damping of adsorbate vibrations, as probed by pump-and-probe and infrared spectroscopy. Incontrast to recent suggestions, we show that the damping is strictly temperature independent as long as the decay involves the excitation of single electron-hole pairs.