TY  - JOUR
AU  - Friedrich, Rico
AU  - Caciuc, Vasile
AU  - Zimmermann, Bernd
AU  - Bihlmayer, Gustav
AU  - Atodiresei, Nicolae
AU  - Blügel, Stefan
TI  - Creating anisotropic spin-split surface states in momentum space by molecular adsorption
JO  - Physical review / B
VL  - 96
IS  - 8
SN  - 2469-9950
CY  - Woodbury, NY
PB  - Inst.
M1  - FZJ-2017-05997
SP  - 085403
PY  - 2017
AB  - In this ab initio study we demonstrate that molecular adsorption on a surface Rashba system can be used to modulate the surface electronic structure in different momentum space directions, i.e., to create anisotropic spin splittings in k space. This effect is rooted in the asymmetric adsorption of the molecules on the surface in a hollow site which breaks the surface symmetry. More specifically, we demonstrate that the physisorbed NH3 has a small influence on the surface Rashba states and only gives rise to variations of the surface state Rashba parameters up to a factor of 1.4 over the surface Brillouin zone. In contrast, the chemisorption of BH3 leads to variations of the Rashba parameter by more than a factor of 2.5. Consequently, the anisotropy of the Rashba-split-surface states induced by molecular adsorption also gives rise to a modulation of the surface state spin texture, i.e., the out-of-plane spin polarization varies along different k directions by up to 70% for the occupied states. This offers the possibility to change the spin direction from in-plane to predominantly out-of-plane by modifying the electronic momentum by 90°.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000406752500005
DO  - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.085403
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/836975
ER  -