Dynamical properties of atoms on surfaces depend sensitively on their bonding environment
and thus provide valuable insight into the local geometry and chemical binding at the …

Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations enable the accurate description of reactive
molecule–surface scattering especially if energy transfer involving surface phonons is …

An atomic projectile colliding with a surface at kinetic energies in the thermal or
hyperthermal range interacts with and is reflected by the electronic density well in front of the …

The advances in phonon spectroscopy in homogeneous solids have unveiled extremely
useful physics regarding the contribution of phonon energies and mean-free paths to the …

An understanding of hydrogen diffusion on metal surfaces is important not only for its role in
heterogeneous catalysis and hydrogen fuel cell technology but also because it provides …

Recent theory has demonstrated that the value of the electron–phonon coupling strength λ
can be extracted directly from the thermal attenuation (Debye–Waller factor) of helium atom …

A detailed investigation of the vibrational properties of H and D layers on Ru (001) with high-
resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS) at a resolution of about 2 meV has …

The structure and the acoustic phonon branches of graphene on Ru (0 0 0 1) have been
experimentally investigated with helium atom scattering (HAS) and analyzed by means of …

We present a determination of quasiparticle-phonon interaction strengths at surfaces
through measurements of phonon spectra with ultrahigh energy resolution. The lifetimes of …

The damping of molecular motion relative to a solid substrate was investigated by high-
resolution vibrational spectroscopy in the far-infrared regime. For octane adsorbed on a …