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Gotter R, Verna A, Sbroscia M, Moroni R, Bisio F, Iacobucci S, Offi F, Vaidya SR, Ruocco A, Stefani G. Unexpectedly Large Electron Correlation Measured in Auger Spectra of Ferromagnetic Iron Thin Films: Orbital-Selected Coulomb and Exchange Contributions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 125:067202. [PMID: 32845695 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.067202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 07/08/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A set of electron-correlation energies as large as 10 eV have been measured for a magnetic 2 ML Fe film deposited on Ag(001). By exploiting the spin selectivity in angle-resolved Auger-photoelectron coincidence spectroscopy and the Cini-Sawatzky theory, the core-valence-valence Auger spectrum of a spin-polarized system have been resolved: correlation energies have been determined for each individual combination of the two holes created in the four subbands involved in the decay: majority and minority spin, as well as e_{g} and t_{2g}. The energy difference between final states with parallel and antiparallel spin of the two emitted electrons is ascribed to the spin-flip energy for the final ion state, thus disentangling the contributions of Coulomb and exchange interactions.
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- R Gotter
- CNR-IOM, Istituto Officina dei Materiali, c/o Area Science Park, SS14 km 163,5 I-34149 Basovizza-Trieste, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Rome, Italy
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- CNR-SPIN, Corso Perrone 24, I-16152 Genova, Italy
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- CNR-SPIN, Corso Perrone 24, I-16152 Genova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Rome, Italy
- CNR-ISM, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Rome, Italy
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- CNR-IOM, Istituto Officina dei Materiali, c/o Area Science Park, SS14 km 163,5 I-34149 Basovizza-Trieste, Italy
- Scuola di Dottorato in Nanotecnologie, Università di Trieste, Piazzale Europa 1, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Rome, Italy
- CNR-ISM, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Roma, Italy
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FUKUDA Y. Appearance Potential Spectroscopy (APS): Old Method, but Applicable to Study of Nano-structures. ANAL SCI 2010; 26:187-97. [DOI: 10.2116/analsci.26.187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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- Y. FUKUDA
- Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University
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Valásek P, Dose V. Two-particle spectra of heavy-fermion systems. PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, CONDENSED MATTER 1995; 51:7471-7475. [PMID: 9977327 DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.51.7471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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Potthoff M, Braun J, Borstel G, Nolting W. Theory of Auger electron and appearance-potential spectroscopy from solids with partially filled valence bands: Effects of valence-band-core interaction. PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, CONDENSED MATTER 1993; 47:12480-12497. [PMID: 10005441 DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.47.12480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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Nolting W, Geipel G, Ertl K. Rigorous results for Auger-electron and appearance-potential line shapes in energy bands with orbital degeneracy. PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, CONDENSED MATTER 1992; 45:5790-5803. [PMID: 10000314 DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.45.5790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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