The quantum theory of the rates of sticking and desorption

✍ Scribed by T.B. Grimley

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 265 KB
• Volume: 214
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(93)85664-a

✦ Synopsis

If sticking is treated by the gettering-theory approach, calculations of the transition rates in both sticking and desorption are based on the theory of the decay of a prepared state. For sticking, T-matrix formulae for the rates follow from the simple quasiparticle pole structure of the initial-state Green function. For desorption, such a simple pole structure does not exist in general, but T-matrix expressions for desorption rates follow from the theory of sticking by virtue of the reciprocity symmetry of the timeevolution operator.