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SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 117, Issue 9, Pages 531-535Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-1098(00)00509-3
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metals; spin-orbit effects; spin dynamics
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Extensive density-functional calculations of the adiabatic potential-energy hypersurface for O-2 adsorption on the Al(111) surface present (i) an entrance-channel barrier only under some very rare conditions and (ii) a molecularly chemisorbed intermediate state for a non-parallel molecule. The predicted metastable molecular state is stabilized by a Hund's rule spin effect on the very inequivalent oxygen atoms of the non-parallel O-2 in the strong Al-surface field. It provides a source for abstraction, i.e. dissociative decay by emission of one oxygen atom. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
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