Abstract
Various aspects of the theoretical description of resonant electron transfer in the interaction of atoms and ions with metal surfaces are examined. Transition rates are calculated in first-order adiabatic approximation by applying a novel method for evaluating transition matrix elements for arbitrary parameter values of the ion-metal system. Results for hydrogenic states in the parabolic (Stark) representation are compared to rates obtained from the (nonperturbative) complex-scaling method. The behavior of the first-order rates at asymptotically large ion-surface distances is studied and compared to results of a nonperturbative tunneling theory. Scaling properties of the transition rates are briefly discussed.
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