PHOTOELECTRON-DIFFRACTION EFFECTS AND CIRCULAR-DICHROISM IN CORE-LEVEL PHOTOEMISSION

Citation
C. Westphal et al., PHOTOELECTRON-DIFFRACTION EFFECTS AND CIRCULAR-DICHROISM IN CORE-LEVEL PHOTOEMISSION, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, 50(9), 1994, pp. 6203-6208
Citations number
48
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Condensed Matter
ISSN journal
01631829
Volume
50
Issue
9
Year of publication
1994
Pages
6203 - 6208
Database
ISI
SICI code
0163-1829(1994)50:9<6203:PEACIC>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
We have calculated the circular dichroism associated with core-level p hotoemission using multiple-scattering photoelectron-diffraction theor y. For C Is emission in a chiral geometry from CO adsorbed on Pd(111), photoelectron-diffraction calculations predict the dichroism found in experimental results due to Bansmann et al. and also agree well with prior free-molecule calculations by McKoy and Stephens. Backscattering from the Pd substrate is also found to alter the dichroic asymmetries for different adsorption geometries. Analogous calculations for Fe 2p emission from a small Fe cluster also indicate that dichroism due to a chiral geometry can strongly affect measurements of magnetic circula r dichroism in systems with net magnetization. With generalization to include spin-orbit and multiplet splittings in the initial state and s pin-dependent scattering of the outgoing electrons, photoelectron-diff raction theory thus should provide a general method for modeling disch roism in core-level photoemission from both nonmagnetic and magnetic s ystems.