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Many-body effects in metals have been extensively discussed and there is a vast literature on collective effects in metals, particularly plasmon effects, exciton problems, the metal-insulator transition, etc. Much less attention has been paid to what is considered as one electron effects in metals and the main objective of this review is to summarize some recent work in that area. We shall only discuss metals, i.e. those showing a predominantly free electron behaviour. Indeed, calculations of many-body effects have only been performed for either a uniform electron gas or for metals having an almost spherical Fermi surface such as Na. Practically nothing is known at the present time about many-body effects in metals having a complicated electron structure.
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Lundqvist, S. (1969). Many-Body Effects in Simple Metals. In: Haidemenakis, E.D. (eds) Electronic Structures in Solids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6537-0_15
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