Nature Communications 8:986 10.1038/s41467-017-01069-3; Article published online: 17 October 2017

The originally published version of this Article contained an error in Equation 1. The two ℏ terms were missing from this equation, which incorrectly read:

$${\rm{Rat}}{{\rm{e}}_{{\rm{nonthermal}}}} = \mathop {\sum}\nolimits_{i = {\rm{Ag,Au}}} {\frac{{2{e^{\rm{2}}}E_{{\rm{F,}}i}^2}}{{{\pi ^2}{{\left( \omega \right)}^3}}}{\int}_{\!\!\!\!\!{S_{{\rm{NC,}}i}}} {{{\left| {{E_{\rm{n}}}\left( {\theta ,\varphi } \right)} \right|}^2}{\rm{d}}S} } ,$$

The correct form of Equation 1 is as follows:

$${\rm{Rat}}{{\rm{e}}_{{\rm{nonthermal}}}} = \mathop {\sum}\nolimits_{i = {\rm{Ag,Au}}} {\frac{{2{e^{\rm{2}}}E_{{\rm{F,}}i}^2}}{{{\pi ^2}\hbar{{\left(\hbar \omega \right)}^3}}}{\int}_{\!\!\!\!\!{S_{{\rm{NC,}}i}}} {{{\left| {{E_{\rm{n}}}\left( {\theta ,\varphi } \right)} \right|}^2}{\rm{d}}S} } ,$$

This has now been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.