Publication Date:
2014-03-25
Description:
Author(s): J. Sánchez-Barriga, A. Varykhalov, J. Braun, S.-Y. Xu, N. Alidoust, O. Kornilov, J. Minár, K. Hummer, G. Springholz, G. Bauer, R. Schumann, L. V. Yashina, H. Ebert, M. Z. Hasan, and O. Rader Do photoelectrons, excited, and then liberated from a solid, by ultraviolet or x-ray light, change their spin orientations? Earlier work reported that they always did if the light used was circularly polarized. A new combined experimental and theoretical study reveals that the answer actually depends on the full symmetry properties of the states the photoelectrons are first excited to. [Phys. Rev. X 4, 011046] Published Mon Mar 24, 2014
Electronic ISSN:
2160-3308
Topics:
Physics
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