Electronic stopping power in gold: The role of d electrons and the H/He anomaly

Abstract

The electronic stopping power of H and He moving through gold is obtained to high accuracy using time-evolving density-functional theory, thereby bringing usual first-principles accuracies into this kind of strongly coupled, continuum non-adiabatic processes in condensed matter. The two key unexplained features of what observed experimentally have been reproduced and understood: (i) The non-linear behaviour of stopping power versus velocity is a gradual crossover as excitations tail into the d-electron spectrum; and (ii) the low-velocity H/He anomaly (the relative stopping powers are contrary to established theory) is explained by the substantial involvement of the d electrons in the screening of the projectile even at the lowest velocities where the energy loss is generated by s-like electron-hole pair formation only.

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