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Imaging spin-inelastic Friedel oscillations emerging from magnetic impurities

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2012-04-06 v3

Abstract

We consider inelastic scattering of localized magnetic moments coupled with the electrons on the surface. We argue that spin-inelastic transitions of the magnetic impurities generate oscillations at a momentum kk, corresponding to the inelastic mode, in the second derivative of the current with respect to voltage d2I/dV2d^2I/dV^2. These oscillations are similar in nature to Friedel oscillations. Inelastic Friedel oscillations, which were previously proposed for spin-unpolarized set-up, is here extended for spin-polarized systems. We propose to use scanning tunneling microscope to measure spin-inelastic scattering generated at the impurity spin by imaging the d2I/dV2d^2I/dV^2 oscillations on the metal surface.

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@article{arxiv.1108.3217,
  title  = {Imaging spin-inelastic Friedel oscillations emerging from magnetic impurities},
  author = {J. Fransson and A. V. Balatsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.3217},
  year   = {2012}
}
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