Surfaces transition probability

There are two basic physical phenomena which govern atomic collisions in the keV range. First, repulsive interatomic interactions, described by the laws of classical mechanics, control the scattering and recoiling trajectories. Second, electronic transition probabilities, described by the laws of quantum mechanics, control the ion-surface charge exchange process. 

The Landau-Zener transition probability is derived from an approximation to the frill two-state impact-parameter treatment of the collision. The single passage probability for a transition between the diabatic surfaces H, (/ ) and R AR) which cross at is the Landau-Zener transition probability... 

The transition probabilities obtained due to the above two modified beat-ments of single-surface calculations need to be compared with those riansition probabilities obtained by two surface calculations that confirms the validity of these former heatments. 

The ordinary BO approximate equations failed to predict the proper symmetry allowed transitions in the quasi-JT model whereas the extended BO equation either by including a vector potential in the system Hamiltonian or by multiplying a phase factor onto the basis set can reproduce the so-called exact results obtained by the two-surface diabatic calculation. Thus, the calculated hansition probabilities in the quasi-JT model using the extended BO equations clearly demonshate the GP effect. The multiplication of a phase factor with the adiabatic nuclear wave function is an approximate treatment when the position of the conical intersection does not coincide with the origin of the coordinate axis, as shown by the results of [60]. Moreover, even if the total energy of the system is far below the conical intersection point, transition probabilities in the JT model clearly indicate the importance of the extended BO equation and its necessity. 

To specify these transition probabilities we make the further assumption that the residence time of a particle in a given adsorption site is much longer than the time of an individual transition to or from that state, either in exchange with the gas phase in adsorption and desorption or for hopping across the surface in diffusion. In such situtations there will be only one individual transition at any instant of time and the transition probabilities can be summed, one at a time, over all possible processes (adsorption, desorption, diffusion) and over all adsorption sites on the surface. To implement this we first write... 

For crystal growth from the vapor phase, one better chooses the transition probability appropriate to the physical situation. The adsorption occurs ballistically with its rate dependent only on the chemical potential difference Aj.1, while the desorption rate contains all the information of local conformation on the surface [35,48]. As long as the system is close to equilibrium, the specific choice of the transition probability is not of crucial importance. 

The method is composed of the following algorithms (1) transition position is detected along each classical trajectory, (2) direction of transition is determined there and the ID cut of the potential energy surfaces is made along that direction, (3) judgment is made whether the transition is LZ type or nonadiabatic tunneling type, and (4) the transition probability is calculated by the appropriate ZN formula. The transition position can be simply found by... 

A and A = 0.1 eV. The adiabatic ground potential energy surface is shown in Fig. 11. The present results (solid line) are in good agreement with the quantum mechanical ones (solid circles). The minimum energy crossing point (MECP) is conventionally used as the transition state and the transition probability is represented by the value at this point. This is called the MECP approximation and does not work well, as seen in Fig. 10. This means that the coordinate dependence of the nonadiabatic transmission probability on the seam surface is important and should be taken into account as is done explicitly in Eq. (18). 

Figure 24. Electron-transfer rate versus electronic coupling strength. The temperature is T = 500 K. Solid line with circle-present results from Eq. (126) with the transition probability averaged over the seam surface. Solid line with square-present results with the transition probability taken at the minimum energy crossing point (MECP). Dashed line-Bixon-Jortner theory Ref. [109]. Dotted line-Marcus s high temperature theory. Taken from Ref. [28].

The microscopic rate constant is derived from the quantum mechanical transition probability by considering the system to be initially present in one of the vibronic levels on the initial potential surface. The initial level is coupled by spin-orbit interaction to the manifold of vibronic levels belonging to the final potential surface. The microscopic rate constant is then obtained, following the Fermi-Golden rule, as ... 

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The electron is excited from a filled initial state f below the Fermi level F to an empty final state f above F. Momentum conservation will be provided by a lattice vector or in some cases by a surface vector. The transition probability is mainly determined by the optical excitation matrix element containing the joint density of states. 

Note that the results obtained are in accordance with the lability principle. The smaller U is, the more labile are the electrons in the adatom and the stronger is the distortion of the shape of the free energy surfaces, leading to a decrease of the activation free energy and to an increase of the transition probability. 

Recently, much attention has been paid to the investigation of the role of this interaction in relation to the calculations for adiabatic reactions. For steady-state nonadiabatic reactions where the initial thermal equilibrium is not disturbed by the reaction, the coupling constants describing the interaction with the thermal bath do not enter explicitly into the expressions for the transition probabilities. The role of the thermal bath in this case is reduced to that the activation factor is determined by the free energy in the transitional configuration, and for the calculation of the transition probabilities, it is sufficient to know the free energy surfaces of the system as functions of the coordinates of the reactive modes. 

Transition matrix estimators have received less attention than the multicanonical and Wang-Landau methods, but have been applied to a small collection of informative examples. Smith and Bruce [111, 112] applied the transition probability approach to the determination of solid-solid phase coexistence in a square-well model of colloids. Erring ton and coworkers [113, 114] have also used the method to determine liquid-vapor and solid-liquid [115] equilibria in the Lennard-Jones system. Transition matrices have also been used to generate high-quality data for the evaluation of surface tension [114, 116] and for the estimation of order parameter weights in phase-switch simulations [117]. 

Transition probability, non-adiabatic coupling, Longuet-Higgins phase-based treatment, two-dimensional two-surface system, scattering calculation, 152-155 Triangular phase diagram, geometric phase... 

A computer program was developed to accomplish this and to carry out the iteration procedure described above. Computational facilities at our disposal (Harris 500) allowed the consideration of matrices of order not exceeding 60. Considering that the order of the transition probability matrix is 4 times the width (M) of the interfacial region, the computational limitation restricts the present investigation to the systems in which the distance between the confining the surfaces is less than 15 units (1 unit = d). 

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