Origin of power laws for reactions at metal surfaces mediated by hot electrons

Details Origin of power laws for reactions at metal surfaces mediated by hot electrons Origin of power laws for reactions at metal surfaces mediated by hot electrons

2009-11-10

arxiv.org/abs/0911.1858v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 238301 (2009)

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Chemical Physics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.238301

A wide range of experiments have established that certain chemical reactions at metal surfaces can be driven by multiple hot electron mediated excitations of adsorbates. A high transient density of hot electrons is obtained by means of femtosecond laser pulses and a characteristic feature of such experiments is the emergence of a power law dependence of the reaction yield on the laser fluence $Y\sim F^n$. We propose a model of multiple inelastic scattering by hot electrons, which reproduces this power law and the experimentally found exponents of several experiments. All parameters are calculated within Density Functional Theory and the Delta Self-Consistent Field method. With a simplified assumption, the power law becomes exact and we obtain a simple and very useful physical interpretation of the exponent $n$, which represents the number of adsorbate vibrational states participating in the reaction.

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