On the behavior of scattering phases in collisions of electrons with multi-atomic objects
M. Ya. Amusia+*, L. V. Chernysheva*
+The Racah Institute of Physics, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
*Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
Abstract
We have studied the energy dependence of several first scattering
phases with multi-atomic
object. As concrete examples representing the general trends endohedrals
Ne@C60 and Ar@C60
are considered. It appeared that the presence of an inner atom, either Ne or Ar, qualitatively
affects the scattering phases, in spite of the fact that the fullerene consists of 60 carbon atoms,
while the atom staffed inside is only one. Calculations are performed in the
one-electron Hartree-Fock (HF) and random phase approximation with exchange
(RPAE) for the inner atom while the
fullerenes shell is substituted by static potential without and with the polarization potential. It
appeared that the total endohedral scattering phase is simply a sum of atomic, Ne or Ar, and
fullerenes C60 phases, contrary to the intuitive assumption that the total phases on C60 and
Ne@C60 or Ar@C60 has to be the same.