Image potential for a tunneling electron
- 15 May 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 35 (14) , 7357-7364
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.35.7357
Abstract
The image potential appropriate to an electron tunneling from a metal into the conduction band of an insulator is calculated with the many-body self-energy formalism developed by Manson and Ritchie [Phys. Rev. B 24, 4867 (1981)]. Analytical results are derived for a simple but complete basis set of eigenfunctions of the one-electron potential experienced by the electron in the noninteracting system. The dynamical corrections to the classical image potential are analyzed.Keywords
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