A. Baraldi et al., Effects of the interatomic-potential anharmonicity on the bulk and surfacephotoemission core levels, PHYS REV B, 61(19), 2000, pp. 12713-12716
By means of high-energy resolution photoemission we show that the Rh(100) 3
d(5/2) surface core-level shift decreases when the surface temperature incr
eases. The effect is interpreted as due to the expansion of the first inter
layer distance, because of the different anharmonicity of the bulk and surf
ace interatomic potentials, in agreement with theoretical predictions.