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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 116, Issue 46, Pages 11128-11133Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp304534n
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- National Science Foundation
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research in the Center for Physical Biology
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
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Electrons and photons, when interacting via a nanostructure, produce a new way of imaging in space and time, termed photon-induced near field electron microscopy or PINEM. [Barwick et al. Nature 2009, 462, 902]. The phenomenon was described by considering the evanescent field produced by the nanostructure, but quantification of the experimental results was achieved by solving the Schrodinger equation for the interaction of the three-bodies. The question remained, is the nonrelativistic formulation sufficient for this description? Here, relativistic and nonrelativistic quantum mechanical formulations are compared for electron-photon interaction mediated by nanostructures, and it is shown that there is an exact equivalence for the two formulations. The nonrelativistic formulation was found to be valid in the relativistic regime when using in the former formulation the relativistically corrected velocity (and the corresponding values of momentum and energy). In the PINEM experiment, 200 keV electrons were utilized, giving the experimental (relativistically corrected) velocity, to be 0.7c (v without relativistic correction is 0.885c). When this value (0.7c), together with those of the corresponding momentum (p(c) = mv) and energy (E-c = (1/2)mv(2)), is used in the first order solution of the Schrodinger formulation, an exact equivalence is obtained.
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