1Max Planck Institut für Kolloid- und
Grenzflächenforschung, Rudower Chausse 5, D-12489 Berlin-Adlershof,
Germany; sherming@mpikg.fta-berlin.de
2Universität Konstanz, Fakultät für Physik,
Universitätsstraße 10, D-8955 Konstanz, Germany;
paul.leiderer@uni-konstanz.de
3Universität Mainz, Institut für Physik, Staudinger Weg 7,
D-55099 Mainz, Germany
Received 23 February 1997, accepted 17 March 1997
Keywords: Wetting; Surface plasmon; Quantum liquids
1Institute for Theoretical Physics, University Tübingen, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
Received 28 March 1996, revised version 22 March 1997, accepted 28 April 1997
Keywords: QED; Vacuum polarization; Electron selfenergy
1Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, Universite Paul
Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse, cedex, France
2Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Erlangen,
Staudtstraße 7, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
Received 10 January 1997, accepted 5 June 1997
Keywords: Mean Field Theories; Semi-classical approximations; Many electron systems
1Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, Universite Paul
Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse, cedex, France
2Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, 46, Allee d'Italie, 69364 Lyon, cedex 07, France
3Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Erlangen,
Staudtstraße 7, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
Received 10 January 1997, revised version 19 May 1997, accepted 5 June 1997
Keywords: Numerical stability; Fermi statistics; Electrons in metal clusters