Ab initio potential for the He-Ag(110) interaction investigated using grazing-incidence fast-atom diffraction

作者:Rios Rubiano C A; Bocan G A; Gravielle M S*; Bundaleski N; Khemliche H; Roncin P
来源:Physical Review A, 2013, 87(1): 012903.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.87.012903

摘要

Experimental diffraction patterns produced by grazing scattering of fast helium atoms from a Ag(110) surface are used as a sensitive tool to test an ab initio potential model derived from accurate density-functional theory (DFT) calculations. The scattering process is described by means of the surface eikonal approximation, which is a distorted-wave method that includes the quantum interference between contributions coming from different projectile paths, taking into account the complete corrugation of the three-dimensional projectile-surface potential. A fairly good agreement between the theoretical and experimental momentum distributions is found for incidence along different low-indexed crystallographic directions. This agreement is indicative of the quality of the DFT potential. The effective corrugation of the interaction potential across the incidence channel is also investigated. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.87.012903

  • 出版日期2013-1-18