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Evidence For Crystal-Field Splitting In Surface-Atom Photoemission From Potassium, G. K. Wertheim, D. Mark Riffe
Evidence For Crystal-Field Splitting In Surface-Atom Photoemission From Potassium, G. K. Wertheim, D. Mark Riffe
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Photoemission spectra from the shallow 3p3/2 core levels of the surface atoms of metallic potassium exhibit the effects of a small but measurable crystal-field splitting of ∼38 meV. It manifests itself mainly as an apparent angle-dependent modulation of the spin-orbit splitting. This phenomenon may, in general, interfere with accurate determinations of surface-atom core-level shifts.
Simultaneous Determination Of Fe 3p Spin-Orbit And Exchange Splittings In Photoemission, D. J. Huang, D. Mark Riffe, J. L. Erskine
Simultaneous Determination Of Fe 3p Spin-Orbit And Exchange Splittings In Photoemission, D. J. Huang, D. Mark Riffe, J. L. Erskine
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Spin-resolved core-level photoemission data from the 3p level of ultrathin Fe films [1.4–5.1 monolayers (ML)] epitaxially grown on W(110) have been obtained. A nonlinear least-squares analysis, based on a one-particle Hamiltonian that simultaneously includes core-valence exchange and core-hole spin-orbit interactions, is developed. It is first tested on Fe 2p magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) photoemission spectra and shown to successfully describe the MCD asymmetry data. The model is then used to analyze our thin-film 3p data. With increasing film thickness the spin-orbit splitting (0.67±0.02 eV) remains constant (as expected), the exchange splitting increases from 0±0.12 eV to 0.41±0.05 eV, the average …