Surface Screening Charge and Effective Charge

Details Surface Screening Charge and Effective Charge Surface Screening Charge and Effective Charge

1998-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9803198v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

4 pages, 1 figure, RevTex (accepted by PRL)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.3571

The charge on an atom at a metallic surface in an electric field is defined as the field-derivative of the force on the atom, and this is consistent with definitions of effective charge and screening charge. This charge can be found from the shift in the potential outside the surface when the atoms are moved. This is used to study forces and screening on surface atoms of Ag(001) c$(2\times 2)$ -- Xe as a function of external field. It is found that at low positive (outward) fields, the Xe with a negative effective charge of -0.093 $|{e}|$ is pushed into the surface. At a field of 2.3 V \AA$^{-1}$ the charge changes sign, and for fields greater than 4.1 V \AA$^{-1}$ the Xe experiences an outward force. Field desorption and the Eigler switch are discussed in terms of these results.

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