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Levitation of atoms over a metal surface

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Abstract

The potential of the interaction of an alkali metal with a planar metal surface was calculated by solving a two-dimensional Schrödinger equation. The potential energy of the valence electron of the atom was derived from a model pseudopotential based on the image potential. It was demonstrated that the potential energy curve for the interaction of an alkali metal atom with the surface of a heavier alkali metal has a minimum at a certain distance from the surface, a feature that gives rise to equilibrium states of levitating atoms.

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  1. Institute of High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Izhorskaya ul. 13/19, Moscow, 125412, Russia

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Original Russian Text © D.I. Zhukhovitskii, 2006, published in Zhurnal Fizicheskoi Khimii, 2006, Vol. 80, No. 9, pp. 1680–1688.

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Zhukhovitskii, D.I. Levitation of atoms over a metal surface. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. 80, 1489–1497 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0036024406090238

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