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Plasmons, Magnons and Some Further Elementary Excitations

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Here we will briefly address some other collective excitations in semiconductors and the quasi-particles which result from the quantization of these excitations like plasmons or magnons.

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Klingshirn, C.F. (2012). Plasmons, Magnons and Some Further Elementary Excitations. In: Semiconductor Optics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28362-8_10

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