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
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.