Abstract
It is shown that atom-surface interaction potentials can be recovered from the diffraction peak intensities measured in beam scattering experiments by a direct, simple inversion method. The potential is determined uniquely, apart from a term depending only on the coordinate perpendicular to the surface. The method does not assume any parametrized functional form for the potential. The results are obtained for a rigid surface, using the sudden approximation for the scattering dynamics. Application to a test case using simulated data for Ne/W (110) yielded an inverted potential of remarkable accuracy.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3232-3238 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | The Journal of Chemical Physics |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue number | 7 |
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| State | Published - 1980 |