Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2008-10-29
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 046802 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
4 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.046802
When an electron or a hole is added into an orbital of an adsorbed molecule the substrate electrons will rearrange in order to screen the added charge. This results in a reduction of the electron addition/removal energies as compared to the free molecule case. In this work we use a simple model to illustrate the universal trends of this renormalization mechanism as a function of the microscopic key parameters. Insight of both fundamental and practical importance is obtained by comparing GW quasiparticle energies with Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham calculations. We identify two different polarization mechanisms: (i) polarization of the metal (image charge formation) and (ii) polarization of the molecule via charge transfer across the interface. The importance of (i) and (ii) is found to increase with the metal density of states at the Fermi level and metal-molecule coupling strength, respectively.
Rubio Angel
Thygesen Kristian S.
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