Article Dans Une Revue Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Année : 2024

Grazing incidence fast atom diffraction: general considerations, semiclassical perturbation theory and experimental implications

Diffraction d'atomes rapides sous incidence rasante, considérations générales, théorie des perturbations semi classiques et implications expériementales

W. Allison

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Using semiclassical methods, an analytical approach to describe grazing incidence scattering of fast atoms (GIFAD) from surfaces is described. First, we consider a model with a surface corrugated in the scattering plane, which includes the surface normal and the incidence direction. The treatment uses a realistic, Morse potential, within a perturbation approach, and correctly reproduces the basic GIFAD phenomenology, whereby the scattering is directed primarily in the specular direction. Second, we treat the more general case of scattering from a surface corrugated in two-dimensions. Using time averaging along the direction of fast motion in the incidence direction, we derive a time dependent potential for the GIFAD scattering away from a low index direction. The results correctly describe the observation that diffraction is seen only when the scattering plane is aligned close to a low-index direction in the surface plane. For the case of helium scattering from LiF(001) we demonstrate that the resulting theoretical predictions agree well with experiment and show that the analysis provides new information on the scattering time and the length scale of the interaction. The analysis also gives insights into the validity of the axial surface channeling approximation (ASCA) and shows that within first order perturbation theory, along a low-index direction, the full 3-dimensional problem can be represented accurately by an equivalent 2-dimensional problem with a potential averaged along the third dimension. In contrast, away from low-index directions, the effective 2-dimensional potential in the projectile frame is time-dependent.
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hal-04765714 , version 1 (10-01-2025)

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E. Pollak, Philippe Roncin, W. Allison, S. Miret-Artés. Grazing incidence fast atom diffraction: general considerations, semiclassical perturbation theory and experimental implications. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2024, 26 (39), pp.25501-25513. ⟨10.1039/D4CP02183E⟩. ⟨hal-04765714⟩
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