Spatially dependent inelastic tunneling in a single metallofullerene |
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Authors: | Grobis M Khoo K H Yamachika R Lu Xinghua Nagaoka K Louie Steven G Crommie M F Kato H Shinohara H |
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Institution: | Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-7300, USA. |
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Abstract: | We have measured the elastic and inelastic tunneling properties of isolated Gd@C(82) molecules on Ag(001) using cryogenic scanning tunneling spectroscopy. We find that the dominant inelastic channel is spatially well localized to a particular region of the molecule. Ab initio pseudopotential density-functional theory calculations indicate that this channel arises from a vibrational cage mode. We further show that the observed inelastic tunneling localization is explained by strong localization in the molecular electron-phonon coupling to this mode. |
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