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It is shown that cancellations in a consistent calculation strongly reduce the attractive interaction of plasmons in an electron gas and eliminate the possibility of a bound state of two plasmons in a metal. In degenerate semiconductors with a large static dielectric constant, a residual binding of two plasmons may remain.
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DuBois et al. (1978) studied this question.
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