Three-dimensional spin rotations at the fermi surface of a strongly spin-orbit coupled surface system

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 18, 2012, Pages

  Hopfner P ^a   Schafer J ^a   Fleszar, A ^a   Dil, J H ^b,c   Slomski, B ^b,c   Meier, F ^b,c   Loho, C ^a   Blumenstein, C ^a   Patthey, L ^b   Hanke, W ^a   Claessen, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE ANISOTROPY; FERMI SURFACE SECTIONS; HELICAL CHARACTER; OUT-OF-PLANE; RADIAL DIRECTION; RASHBA MODEL; SPIN COMPONENTS; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; SPIN ORBITS; SPIN PATTERNS; SPIN TEXTURES; SPIN-ORBIT EFFECTS; SPIN-ROTATIONS; SURFACE SYSTEMS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON SYSTEM;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FERMI SURFACE; SPIN DYNAMICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84860466437     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.186801     Document Type: Article

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32. See Supplemental Material at http://link.aps.org/supplemental/10.1103/ PhysRevLett.108.186801 for details of the calculation and results from the fitting.