Image state

We have assumed above that the potential of an electron outside the crystal is constant Vs). A more realistic approach has to take into account the dependence of the potential on the electron-surface distance. In the case of a metal surface, the Coulomb potential of the electron mirror image relative to the surface plane dictates the interaction. 

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There are two reasons to think this situation might occur. The first reason is experimental. As discussed in Sections 2-5, in most experiments on chiral materials, tubules and helical ribbons are observed with only one sense of handedness. However, there are a few exceptions in experiments on diacetylenic phospholipids,144 diacetylenic phosphonate lipids,145 146 and bile.162 In these exceptional cases, some helices are observed with the opposite sense of handedness from the majority. In the work on diacetylenic phospholipids, the minority handedness was observed only during the kinetic process of tubule formation at high lipid concentration,144 which is a condition that should promote metastable states. Hence, these experiments may indeed show a case of biased chiral symmetry-breaking in which the molecular chirality favors a state of one handedness and disfavors a mirror image state. 

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The second caveat concerns the limitation of the quasi-variational procedure to produce an entire diabatic curve when there are low lying excited states that cut through it. For example, in the case of H-abstraction by an electronegative atom, or in SN2 reactions (7), the ionic structure of the bond lies below the R and P image states in the VBSCD. Therefore, past the crossing point of the... 

The reorientation of the molecular adsorbates also induces a localization of the electron in the image state which is initially delocalized parallel to the surface. The localization phenomenon was proved by examining the emission angle dependence of the photoelectron spectra. It is concluded that the electrons in the delocalized state are trapped in the localized state at around 300 fs after the excitation, where the electron localization size is estimated to be 12 A. 

Fig. 5.2-22 Dispersion curves E k ) for the empty states of the (111) face of Ni, Cu and Ag, showing image states (Si), surface states and resonances (S2, S3). Experimental data by KRIPES [2.33]...

Table 5.2-12 Image state parameters. The data are from various authors. References to the original papers are given in [2.9]...

Fig.5.2-2tr Energy dispersion curves E k ) around X of the SBZ for Ag(lOO). Projected bands and surface state features A and B are the same as in Pig. 5.2-8a. Experimental points are obtained by electroreflectance (1) and KRIPES (2 and 3). Curve (3) represents image states [2.34,35]...

STS has also been applied to a study of the unoccupied surface states of graphite [249], hydrogen-like image states on clean and oxygen-covered nickel and on gold epitaxed on silicon (111) [266], [267], the superconducting energy gap in NbsSn [268], the electronic structure of the InP (110) surface [245], and copper phthalocyanine adsorbed on Cu (100) [269]. 

The following statements summarize the nature of the excited image states in the generalized curve crossing diagrams of Fig. 5 a. 

STATEMENT 1 For an isovalent reaction which is attended by bond exchanges without changes in the formal oxidation states of the reaction centers, the image states involve only triplet excitations, one for each bond which has to be broken in the reaction. 

Fig. 8. A many-curve diagram where the Lewis curves are horizontally crossed by an intermediate curve for which the anchor excited states are not image states...

A chiral molecule is one that cannot be superimposed on its mirror image. State how one would recognize a chiral molecule by its point group, and give examples of three such point groups. 

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