EVIDENCE FOR COUPLED ROTATIONAL AND PHONON QUANTUM EXCITATION IN THE SCATTERING OF A NEARLY MONOENERGETIC HD BEAM FROM THE NI(001) SURFACE

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作者
BERNDT, R [1 ]
TOENNIES, JP [1 ]
WOLL, C [1 ]
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[1] MAX PLANCK INST STROMUNGSFORSCH,W-3400 GOTTINGEN,GERMANY
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10.1063/1.458105
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
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Angular distributions and time-of-flight spectra of a nearly monoenergetic (△v/v≅2% FWHM) He seeded HD beam (ki = 6.80 Å-1, Ei = 32 meV) have been measured after scattering from a Ni(001) single-crystal surface along the 〈100〉 azimuth. The most intense peaks in the angular distributions are attributed to diffraction with rotational excitation while the rotationally elastic diffraction peaks are an order of magnitude smaller. All the time-of-flight distributions reveal intense peaks at △E= -11.06 meV corresponding to the HD rotational transitiony ji = 0→ = 1. The rotational energy loss observed at angles between the diffraction peaks is attributed to incoherent inelastic scattering at defects. The other inelastic peaks in the time-of-flight spectra can be assigned to phonons which are created or annihilated in the rotationally inelastic collisions. The measured phonon dispersion curves suggest a predominant interaction with the transverse bulk edge and not with the Rayleigh mode. These results provide the first direct evidence for a coupling of rotational transitions to die phonons of a metal surface. The pronounced rotational inelasticity at step edges does not support the widely held view that nonactivated chemisorption occurs at step edges. © 1990 American institute of Physics.
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