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Photons can excite collective and single-particle excitations in metals; the collective plasmonic excitations are of keen interest in physics, chemistry, optics, and nanotechnology because they enhance coupling of electromagnetic energy and can drive nonlinear processes in electronic materials, particularly where their dielectric function ϵ(ω) approaches zero. We investigate the nonlinear angle-resolved two-photon photoemission (2PP) spectroscopy of the Ag(111) surface through the ϵ(ω) near-zero region. In addition to the Einsteinian single-particle photoemission, the 2PP spectra report unequivocal signatures of nonlocal dielectric, plasmonically enhanced, excitation processes.
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