Comparison of physical processes of atom-surface scattering computed by classical and quantum dynamics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17483v3
• Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2023 17:25:18 GMT
• Title: Comparison of physical processes of atom-surface scattering computed by classical and quantum dynamics
• Authors: Tapas Sahoo
• Abstract summary: We have performed classical and quantum dynamical simulations to calculate quantities for physical processes of atom. The rate of escaping probability of the scattered particle obtained by classical simulation increases with increasing surface temperature. The quantum rate is almost temperature independent at 2 meV incident energy of the particle, whereas it shows same trend with the classical results at 5 meV and the quantum rate is lower than the classical rate.
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• Abstract: We have performed classical and quantum dynamical simulations to calculate dynamical quantities for physical processes of atom - surface scattering, e.g., trapping probability and average energy loss, final angular distribution of a particle scattered from a corrugated thermal surface. Here we have restricted ourselves to in-plane scattering so that only two degrees of freedom of the particle have to be considered - the vertical distance z and the horizontal coordinate x. Moreover, we assumed further that only the vertical coordinate fluctuates due to interaction with thermal phonon bath of the surface. Initial phase - space variables of the system and the bath for our classical simulations were generated according to Wigner distribution functions which were derived from initial wavefunctions of our quantum dynamics. At very low incident energy, we have found that the quantum mechanical average energy loss of the escaped particle from the corrugated as well as thermal surface are smaller than the classical ones at a particular surface temperature. It is important to note that the rate of escaping probability of the scattered particle obtained by classical simulation increases with increasing surface temperature. On the other hand, quantum rate is almost temperature independent at 2 meV incident energy of the particle, whereas it shows same trend with the classical results at 5 meV and the quantum rate is lower than the classical rate. We have also noticed that the final angular distributions of the scattered particle both for classical as well as quantum dynamics are qualitatively different but the quantities are more or less temperature independent.

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