%0 Journal Article
%A Chen, Guan-Yu
%A Huang, Angus
%A Lin, Yen-Hui
%A Chen, Chia-Ju
%A Lin, Deng-Sung
%A Chang, Po-Yao
%A Jeng, Horng-Tay
%A Bihlmayer, Gustav
%A Hsu, Pin-Jui
%T Orbital-enhanced warping effect in px,py-derived Rashba spin splitting of monatomic bismuth surface alloy
%J npj quantum materials
%V 5
%N 1
%@ 2397-4648
%C [London]
%I Nature Publishing Group
%M FZJ-2020-04931
%P 89
%D 2020
%X Spin-split Rashba bands have been exploited to efficiently control the spin degree of freedom of moving electrons, which possesses a great potential in frontier applications of designing spintronic devices and processing spin-based information. Given an intrinsic breaking of inversion symmetry and sizeable spin–orbit interaction, two-dimensional (2D) surface alloys formed by heavy metal elements exhibit a pronounced Rashba-type spin splitting of the surface states. Here, we have revealed the essential role of atomic orbital symmetry in the hexagonally warped Rashba spin-split surface state of the 3–√×3–√R300 BiCu2 monatomic alloy by scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) and density functional theory (DFT). From dI/dU spectra and calculated band structures, three hole-like Rashba-split bands hybridized from distinct orbital symmetries have been identified in the unoccupied energy region. Because of the hexagonally deformed Fermi surface, quasi-particle interference (QPI) mappings have resolved scattering channels opened from interband transitions of px,py (mj = 1/2) band. In contrast to the s,pz-derived band, the hexagonal warping is predominately accompanied by substantial out-of-plane spin polarization Sz up to 24% in the dispersion of px,py (mj = 1/2) band with an in-plane orbital symmetry.
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%9 Journal Article
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000597293600002
%R 10.1038/s41535-020-00293-3
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/888463