Electron transfer and orbital hybridization in slow collisions between excited hydrogen atoms and aluminum surfaces

We have developed a new two-center close-coupling approach in which the time-dependent Schrِdinger equation is solved for an active electron interacting with a slow projectile and a metal surface. The motion of the active electron in the metal subspace is discretized by using Weyl wave packets. Results for the time evolution of the atomic and metallic population amplitudes for the H/Al system are shown and discussed.