Room Temperature Kondo effect in atom-surface scattering: dynamical 1/N approach

Details Room Temperature Kondo effect in atom-surface scattering: dynamical 1/N approach Room Temperature Kondo effect in atom-surface scattering: dynamical 1/N approach

1998-04-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9804119v2

Phys. Rev. B 58, 6982 (1998)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

15 pages, 10 Postscript figures; references and typos corrected

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.58.6982

The Kondo effect may be observable in some atom-surface scattering experiments, in particular, those involving alkaline-earth atoms. By combining Keldysh techniques with the NCA approximation to solve the time-dependent Newns-Anderson Hamiltonian in the infinite-U limit, Shao, Nordlander and Langreth found an anomalously strong surface-temperature dependence of the outgoing charge state fractions. Here we employ the dynamical 1/N expansion with finite Coulomb interaction U to provide a more realistic description of the scattering process. We test the accuracy of the 1/N expansion in the spinless N = 1 case against the exact independent-particle solution. We then compare results obtained in the infinite-U limit with the NCA approximation and recover qualitative features found previously. Finally, we analyze the realistic situation of Ca atoms with U = 5.8 eV scattered off Cu(001) surfaces. Although the presence of the doubly-ionized Ca species can change the absolute scattered positive Ca yields, the temperature dependence is qualitatively the same as that found in the infinite-U limit. One of the main difficulties that experimentalists face in attempting to detect this effect is that the atomic velocity must be kept small enough to reduce possible kinematic smearing of the metal's Fermi surface.

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