Journal article
Exact theory of long-wavelength one-phonon amplitudes in atom-surface scattering
Physical review. B, Condensed matter, Vol.43(10), pp.7422-7426
04/01/1991
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.43.7422
PMID: 9996358
Abstract
We derive an expression for the probability of creating or annihilating one long-wavelength surface or bulk phonon during a scattering event, which depends on the bulk elastic constants but is independent of the details of the atom-target potential and of force-constant changes near the surface. This expression is exact if the inelastic scattering is weak (in a precisely defined sence). This theory should be experimentally verifiable, e.g., for 20-meV He atoms scattered from a W surface. © 1991 The American Physical Society.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Exact theory of long-wavelength one-phonon amplitudes in atom-surface scattering
- Creators
- Michael E. Flatté - University of California, Santa BarbaraWalter Kohn - University of California, Santa Barbara
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physical review. B, Condensed matter, Vol.43(10), pp.7422-7426
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.43.7422
- PMID
- 9996358
- NLM abbreviation
- Phys Rev B Condens Matter
- ISSN
- 0163-1829
- eISSN
- 1095-3795
- Publisher
- American Physical Society
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/1991
- Academic Unit
- Electrical and Computer Engineering; Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984428825702771
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