Yoshio Miura et al 2002 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 14 L479 doi:10.1088/0953-8984/14/25/107
Yoshio Miura1,2, Hideaki Kasai2 and Wilson Agerico Diño2,3
Show affiliationsWe investigate and discuss the effects of dynamical quantum filtering on the scattering dynamics of H2 on Cu(001); we perform coupled-channel calculations, including all six degrees of freedom of H2, on an ab initio potential energy surface. Our results show that cartwheel-like rotating H2 molecules (with their angular momentum vectors j predominantly oriented parallel to the surface) exhibit strong specular scattering on Cu(001), while helicopter-like rotating H2 molecules (with their angular momentum vectors j predominantly oriented perpendicular to the surface) exhibit off-specular scattering on Cu(001). These results indicate that we can obtain H2 molecules with aligned angular momentum vectors j, by scattering them from solid surfaces.
68.49.Df Molecule scattering from surfaces (energy transfer, resonances, trapping)
Issue 25 (1 July 2002)
Received 15 May 2002
Published 14 June 2002
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