title: Spin resolved bandstructure imaging with a high resolution momentum microscope.
abstract: We present a spin resolving "momentum microscope" for the high resolution imaging of the momentum distribution of photoelectrons. Measurements of the band structure of a Au(111) single crystal surface demonstrate an energy resolution of ΔE=12 meV and a momentum resolution of Δk∥=0.0049 Å(-1), measured at the line-width of the spin-orbit split Shockley surface state. The relative accuracy of the k∥ measurement in the order of 10(-4) Å(-1) reveals a deviation from the ideal two-dimensional free electron gas model of the Shockley surface state, manifested in a threefold radial symmetry. Spin resolution in the full momentum image is obtained by an imaging spin-filter based on low-energy electron diffraction at a Au passivated Ir(100) single crystal. Using working points at 10.5 eV and 11.5 eV scattering energy with a completely reversed asymmetry of ±60% we demonstrate the efficient mapping of the spin texture of the Au(111) surface state.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle, Germany.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tusche
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle, Germany.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Krasyuk
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle, Germany; Institut für Physik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle, Germany.
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kirschner
keywords: Electron spin polarization; Electronic structure; Momentum microscopy; Photoemission; Spin-orbit coupling; Surface state