Adsorbate-induced substrate relaxation and the adsorbate-adsorbate interaction
Materials Science
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We formulate the theory of the perturbation caused by an adsorbate upon the substrate lattice in terms of a local modification of the interatomic potential energy around the adsorption site, which leads to the relaxation of substrate atoms. We apply the approach to CO chemisorption on close-packed metal surfaces, and show that the adsorbate-adsorbate interaction and a variety of other properties can be well described by a simple model.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9904039,
title = {Adsorbate-induced substrate relaxation and the adsorbate-adsorbate interaction},
author = {R. Brako and D. Sokcevic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9904039},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 eps figures, RevTex, submitted to PRL