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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 126, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.156101
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFA0303500]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [22073089, 22033007]
- Anhui Initiative in Quantum Information Technologies [AHY090200]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WK2060000017]
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Gas-surface scattering of highly vibrating NO molecules on metallic and insulating surfaces exhibit contrasting energy transfer behaviors, attributed to the coupling of molecular vibration with other degrees of freedom. The results emphasize the concurrent influence of initial state and potential energy landscape on the mechanical energy transfer dynamics in gas-surface scattering.
NO scattering from metallic and insulating surfaces represents contrasting benchmark systems for understanding energy transfer at gas-surface interface. Strikingly different behaviors of highly vibrationally excited NO scattered from Au(111) and LiF(001) were observed and attributed to disparate electronic structures between metals and insulators. Here, we reveal an alternative mechanical origin of this discrepancy by comparative molecular dynamics simulations with globally accurate adiabatic neural network potentials of both systems. We find that highly vibrating NO can reach for the high-dissociation barrier on Au(111), by which vibrational energy can largely transfer to translation or rotation and further dissipate into substrate phonons. This mechanical energy transfer channel is forbidden in the purely repulsive NO/LiF(001) system or for low-vibrating NO on Au(111), where molecular vibration is barely coupled to other degrees of freedom. Our results emphasize that the initial state and potential energy landscape concurrently influence the mechanical energy transfer dynamics of gas-surface scattering.
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