Treatment of the Periodically Inhomogeneous Surface: Multiple Boundary Condition

H. Puszkarski and M. Krawczyk Surface Physics Division, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland

Received: March 14, 2000

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We deal with the following question: how can the composite nature of a boundary condition formulated for a periodically inhomogeneous surface and involving the composite surface parameter, be treated analytically? We show that when the appropriate Fourier transformation is applied, the composite boundary condition reduces to a specific eigenproblem condition, which constitutes the spectrum of eigenvalues of an "effective" surface parameter, a novel quantity we introduced to account for the nonhomogeneity of the surface.

DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.97.1017 PACS numbers: 68.35.-p, 02.60.Lj