Fig. 1: Final vibrational state distributions with various initial conditions.

Comparison of experimental final vibrational state distributions27 of vibrationally excited NO scattering from Au(111) with BOMD and IESH results on the revPBE-based FD-PESs, as well as IESH and HEOM results on the revPBE-based two-dimensional (2D)-PESs from ref. 40, for a vi = 3, Ei = 1.08 eV, b vi = 11, Ei = 0.95 eV, and c vi = 16, Ei = 0.52 eV. d–f Similar to (a–c), but for BOMD, IESH, and MDEF(ODF)33 results on the PW91-based FD-PESs. g–i Similar to (a–c), but for IESH and MDEF results on the RST FD-PESs from ref. 37. Note that results are extracted from trajectories with single-bounce and trajectories whose final vibrational states exceed the experimental ranges are excluded. Source data are provided in a Source data file. Results obtained from all trajectories are shown in Supplementary Fig. 6.