Pn Lebedev Phys Inst Leninsky Prospect 53 Moscow 117924 Russia
Univ Tubingen Inst Theoret Phys D-72076 Tubingen Germany
Max Planck Inst Festkorperforsch D-70569 Stuttgart Germany

Energy-dependent relaxation rates for the one-electron Green function and for the optical conductivity are calculated for a number of metals using electron-phonon spectral functions found ab initio. It is shown that the relaxation rates for these functions are very different in a broad interval of energies and temperatures. Implication of the results to the infrared spectroscopy of high-T-c. superconductors is discussed.
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Solid State Communications, 106 409-413, 1998.