Directional dependency of electronic stopping in nickel, projectile’s excited charge state and momentum transfer

• Published in: The European physical journal. D, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, 2021-11, Vol.75 (11), Article 280
• Main Authors: Quashie, Edwin E., Andrade, Xavier, Correa, Alfredo A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Advances in Multi-Scale Modelling of Intense Electronic Excitation Processes; Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory; Atomic; Charge transfer; Crystallography; Density functional theory; Light ions; Molecular; Momentum transfer; Nickel; Optical and Plasma Physics; Physical Chemistry; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Projectiles; Quantum Information Technology; Quantum Physics; Spectroscopy/Spectrometry; Spintronics; Stopping power; Time dependence; Topical Review - Atomic and Molecular Collisions
• ISSN: 1434-6060; 1434-6079
• DOI: 10.1140/epjd/s10053-021-00266-6

We studied the directional dependency of electronic stopping power of swift light ions in nickel using real-time time-dependent density functional theory. We report a variation of electronic stopping for moving ions as the projectile probes different electronic densities of the host material. These results show that while the predicted magnitude stays in reasonable agreement with experiment, for v > 2 . a.u. simulating only low index crystallographic directions is not enough to sample the experimental average values. The ab initio simulations give us access to microscopic quantities, such as non-adiabatic forces, momentum transfer and transient excited state charges of the projectile and host ions, which are not available through other methods. We report these quantities for the first time.