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Gas-surface scattering is speculated as a meaningful problem for understanding the physics of fractals. Fractal behaviour can be associated with a self-similar geometry on a solid surface. The interaction potential for a gas atom or molecule approaching the lattice depends primarily on local factors but a parametric dependence of the cross-section data on the fractal dimension can be conceived. Such a dependence on the self-similar character of a multi-centred target is more explicit when multiple scattering is included. Application of approximation schemes like the previously developed average wavefunction method to this problem is suggested.
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Singh, H., Chattaraj, P.K. On scattering from fractal lattices. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Chem. Sci.) 99, 47–51 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02935773
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