Adiabatic and nonadiabatic energy dissipation during scattering of vibrationally excited CO from Au(111)
A high-dimensional potential energy surface (PES) for CO interaction with the Au(111) surface is developed using a machine-learning algorithm. Including both molecular and surface coordinates, this PES enables the simulations of the recent experiment on scattering of vibrationally excited CO from Au...
| Autores: | , , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/209508 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/209508 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Sumario: | A high-dimensional potential energy surface (PES) for CO interaction with the Au(111) surface is developed using a machine-learning algorithm. Including both molecular and surface coordinates, this PES enables the simulations of the recent experiment on scattering of vibrationally excited CO from Au(111). Trapping in a physisorption well is observed to increase with decreasing incidence energy. While the energy dissipation of physisorbed CO is slow, due to weak coupling with both the phonons and electron-hole pairs, the access of the impinging CO to the chemisorption well facilitates its fast vibrational relaxation through nonadiabatic coupling with surface electron-hole pairs. The latter is proposed as a mechanism for the experimentally observed fast as well as slow components of the CO(ν=1) product. |
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