Abstract
We point out the importance of the incidence energy of to account for the nonmonotonic behavior of the adsorption probability of /Cu(111) as a function of its initial rotational state. We then show that a very prominent initial cooling, a mild heating, and then a final cooling of the rotational temperature with respect to the surface temperature, for increasing rotational energies, should be observed for the desorption of from Cu(111). We finally show that the desorption results could be consistently connected with the adsorption probability data.
- Received 29 July 1996
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.286
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