Wavepackets and inelastic tunnelling
| Autor: | A Bringer, J Harris, J W Gadzuk |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 5:5141-5158 |
| ISSN: | 1361-648X 0953-8984 |
| DOI: | 10.1088/0953-8984/5/29/010 |
| Popis: | Using real-time numerical propagation techniques, the authors consider the tunneling of electron wavepackets through potential barriers that possess internal dynamics. The models considered allow the study of the influence of localized surface vibrational modes on the tunnel current observed in scanning tunnelling microscopy. Non-resonant and resonant processes are considered. In the former case, the authors focus on the behaviour of the total tunnel current when the energy sweeps through an inelastic threshold. In the resonant case, they make contact with analytic theory and consider in detail, using a two-channel Breit-Wigner model, the physics underlying the resonant process, the physical origin of sum-rules obeyed by the tunnelling characteristic, and the conditions under which simple analytic theoretical results can be applied in general. |
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