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200 1 _aEvidence for a spin acoustic surface plasmon from inelastic atom scattering
_fG. Benedek, M. Bernasconi, D. Campi [et al.]
203 _aText
_celectronic
300 _aTitle screen
320 _a[References: 84 tit.]
330 _aClosed-shell atoms scattered from a metal surface exchange energy and momentum with surface phonons mostly via the interposed surface valence electrons, i.e., via the creation of virtual electron-hole pairs. The latter can then decay into surface phonons via electron-phonon interaction, as well as into acoustic surface plasmons (ASPs). While the first channel is the basis of the current inelastic atom scattering (IAS) surface-phonon spectroscopy, no attempt to observe ASPs with IAS has been made so far. In this study we provide evidence of ASP in Ni(111) with both Ne atom scattering and He atom scattering. While the former measurements confirm and extend so far unexplained data, the latter illustrate the coupling of ASP with phonons inside the surface-projected phonon continuum, leading to a substantial reduction of the ASP velocity and possibly to avoided crossing with the optical surface phonon branches. The analysis is substantiated by a self-consistent calculation of the surface response function to atom collisions and of the first-principle surface-phonon dynamics of Ni(111). It is shown that in Ni(111) ASP originate from the majority-spin Shockley surface state and are therefore collective oscillation of surface electrons with the same spin, i.e. it represents a new kind of collective quasiparticle: a Spin Acoustic Surface Plasmon (SASP).
461 _tScientific Reports
463 _tVol. 11, iss. 1
_v[1506, 12 p.]
_d2021
610 1 _aэлектронный ресурс
610 1 _aтруды учёных ТПУ
610 1 _acondensed-matter physics
610 1 _aelectronic properties and materials
610 1 _aphysics
610 1 _aконденсированные состояния
610 1 _aэлектронные свойства
610 1 _aэлектронные материалы
701 1 _aBenedek
_bG.
_gGiorgio
701 1 _aBernasconi
_bM.
701 1 _aCampi
_bD.
_gDavide
701 1 _aSilkin
_bI. V.
_gIgor Vyacheslavovich
701 1 _aChernov
_bI. P.
_cDoctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (DSc), Professor of the Department of General Physics of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU)
_f1935-
_gIvan Petrovich
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701 1 _aSilkin
_bV. M.
_gVyacheslav Mikhaylovich
701 1 _aChulkov
_bE. V.
_gEvgeny Vladimirovich
701 1 _aEchenique
_bP. M.
_gPablo
701 1 _aToennies
_bJ. P.
701 1 _aAnemone
_bG.
_gGloria
701 1 _aAl
_bT. A.
_gTaleb Amjad
701 1 _aMiranda
_bR. P.
_gRafael
701 1 _aFarias
_bD. L.
_gDaniel
712 0 2 _aНациональный исследовательский Томский политехнический университет
_bИнженерная школа ядерных технологий
_bОтделение экспериментальной физики
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856 4 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81018-9
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