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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 97, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.136101
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The potential energy landscape of surfaces governs the dynamics of adsorbed molecules, as well as atomic scale friction processes. We measure the potential energy landscape of a single-atom tip interacting with a vicinal nonconducting NaCl(100) surface in real space using noncontact atomic force microscopy. We find that the shape of the potential energy profile is of sinusoidal form with a barrier height of 48 meV. Furthermore, we observe a discontinuity in the force curves at specific lattice sites, indicating the onset of reversible yet hysteretic mechanical relaxations.
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