A reinvestigation of the giant Rashba-split states on Bi-covered Si(111)

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العنوان: A reinvestigation of the giant Rashba-split states on Bi-covered Si(111)
المؤلفون: Berntsen, M. H., Götberg, O., Tjernberg, O.
المصدر: Phys. Rev. B 97, 125148 (2018)
سنة النشر: 2017
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
الوصف: We study the electronic and spin structures of the giant Rashba-split surface states of the Bi/Si(111)-($\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}$)R30 trimer phase by means of spin- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (spin-ARPES). Supported by tight-binding calculations of the surface state dispersion and spin orientation, our findings show that the spin experiences a vortex-like structure around the $\bar{\Gamma}$-point of the surface Brillouin zone - in accordance with the standard Rashba model. Moreover, we find no evidence of a spin vortex around the $\bar{\mathrm{K}}$-point in the hexagonal Brillouin zone, and thus no peculiar Rashba split around this point, something that has been suggested by previous works. Rather the opposite, our results show that the spin structure around $\bar{\mathrm{K}}$ can be fully understood by taking into account the symmetry of the Brillouin zone and the intersection of spin vortices centered around the $\bar{\Gamma}$-points in neighboring Brillouin zones. As a result, the spin structure is consistently explained within the standard framework of the Rashba model although the spin-polarized surface states experience a more complex dispersion compared to free-electron like parabolic states.
Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.97.125148
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06402
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1710.06402
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
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DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.125148