The role of the spin in quasiparticle interference

Details The role of the spin in quasiparticle interference The role of the spin in quasiparticle interference

2004-07-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0407564v1

Physical Review Letters 93, 196802 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

4 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.196802

Quasiparticle interference patterns measured by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) can be used to study the local electronic structure of metal surfaces and high temperature superconductors. Here, we show that even in non-magnetic systems the spin of the quasiparticles can have a profound effect on the interference patterns. On Bi(110), where the surface state bands are not spin-degenerate, the patterns are not related to the dispersion of the electronic states in a simple way. In fact, the features which are expected for the spin-independent situation are absent and the observed interference patterns can only be interpreted by taking spin-conserving scattering events into account.

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