Energy transfer hard cube

Figure 3.12. Inelastic scattering of Ar from Pt(lll) at the various input energies listed in the figure and for an initial angle of incidence 0, = 45° and Ts = 800 K. Results are plotted as EfIE vs. the final scattered angle . Points are the experimental results and the lines marked adjacently in the label are results of molecular dynamics simulations on an empirical PES. The long dot-dashed curve is the prediction of a cube model of energy transfer, while the dashed curve is the prediction from hard sphere scattering. From Ref. [135].

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