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Giant spin rotation under quasiparticle-photoelectron conversion: Joint effect of sublattice interference and spin-orbit coupling
Kuemmeth, Ferdinand
and Rashba, Emmanuel I.
(2009)
Giant spin rotation under quasiparticle-photoelectron conversion: Joint effect of sublattice interference and spin-orbit coupling.
Physical Review B 80, p. 241409.
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.79102
Abstract
Spin- and angular-resolved photoemission spectroscopy is a basic experimental tool for unveiling spin polarization of electron eigenstates in crystals. We prove, by using spin-orbit coupled graphene as a model, that photoconversion of a quasiparticle inside a crystal into a photoelectron can be accompanied with a dramatic change in its spin polarization, up to a total spin flip. This phenomenon ...
Spin- and angular-resolved photoemission spectroscopy is a basic experimental tool for unveiling spin polarization of electron eigenstates in crystals. We prove, by using spin-orbit coupled graphene as a model, that photoconversion of a quasiparticle inside a crystal into a photoelectron can be accompanied with a dramatic change in its spin polarization, up to a total spin flip. This phenomenon is typical of quasiparticles residing away from the Brillouin-zone center and described by higher rank spinors and results in exotic patterns in the angular distribution of photoelectrons.
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| Item type | Article | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Physical Review B | ||||||
| Publisher: | American Physical Society (APS) | ||||||
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| Volume: | 80 | ||||||
| Page Range: | p. 241409 | ||||||
| Date | 16 December 2009 | ||||||
| Institutions | Physics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics | ||||||
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 530 Physics | ||||||
| Status | Published | ||||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | No | ||||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-791020 | ||||||
| Item ID | 79102 |
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