Editing Plasmon (section)

== Derivation ==
The plasmon was initially proposed in 1952 by [[David Pines]] and [[David Bohm]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pines |first1=David |last2=Bohm |first2=David |title=A Collective Description of Electron Interactions: II. Collective vs Individual Particle Aspects of the Interactions |journal=Physical Review |date=15 January 1952 |volume=85 |issue=2 |pages=338–353 |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.85.338 |bibcode=1952PhRv...85..338P }} Cited after: {{cite book|author1=Dror Sarid|author2=William Challener|title=Modern Introduction to Surface Plasmons: Theory, Mathematica Modeling, and Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rXU1OLdjFUsC&pg=PA1|date=6 May 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-76717-0|page=1}}</ref> and was shown to arise from a [[Hamiltonian (quantum mechanics)|Hamiltonian]] for the long-range electron-electron correlations.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=David Bohm, David Pines|title=Coulomb Interactions in a Degenerate Electron Gas|journal=Phys. Rev.|date=1 November 1953|volume=92|issue=3|pages=609–625|series=A Collective Description of Electron Interactions: III.|doi=10.1103/physrev.92.609|bibcode = 1953PhRv...92..609B |s2cid=55594082}} Cited after: {{cite journal|title=Alternative derivation of the Bohm-Pines theory of electron-electron interactions|author=N. J. Shevchik |journal=J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys.|date=1974|volume=7|issue=21 |pages=3930–3936|doi=10.1088/0022-3719/7/21/013|bibcode = 1974JPhC....7.3930S }}</ref>

Since plasmons are the quantization of classical plasma oscillations, most of their properties can be derived directly from [[Maxwell's equations]].<ref name="electro">
{{cite book
 |author=Jackson, J. D.
 |chapter=10.8 Plasma Oscillations
 |year=1975
 |orig-date=1962
 |edition=2nd
 |title=Classical Electrodynamics
 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/classicalelectro00jack_0
 |chapter-url-access=registration
 |location=New York
 |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]]
 |oclc=535998 |isbn=978-0-471-30932-1
}}</ref>