Momentum-selective orbital hybridisation
oleh: Xiaosheng Yang, Matteo Jugovac, Giovanni Zamborlini, Vitaliy Feyer, Georg Koller, Peter Puschnig, Serguei Soubatch, Michael G. Ramsey, F. Stefan Tautz
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01 |
Deskripsi
When a molecule interacts chemically with a metal, its orbitals hybridise with metal states to form the new eigenstates of the coupled system. Here, the authors show that in addition to overlap in real space and energy, hybridizing states must fulfil a momentum-matching condition.