| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 55, Number 3, August 2001
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 404 - 410 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2001-00414-0 | |
| Published online | 01 December 2003 | |
Tunneling of Bloch electrons through vacuum barrier
Code 6391, Naval Research Laboratory - Washington, DC 20375, USA
Received:
4
December
2000
Accepted:
17
May
2001
Tunneling of Bloch electrons through a vacuum barrier introduces
new physical effects in comparison with the textbook case of free
(plane wave) electrons. For the latter, the exponential
decay rate in the vacuum
is minimal for electrons with the parallel component of momentum
, and the prefactor is defined by the electron
momentum component in the normal to the surface direction.
However, the decay rate of Bloch
electrons may be minimal at an arbitrary 
("hot spots" ), and the
prefactor is determined by the electron's group velocity,
rather than by its quasimomentum. We illustrate this by
first-principles calculations for (110) Pd surface.
PACS: 73.40.Gk – Tunneling
© EDP Sciences, 2001
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