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 , corresponding to the inelastic mode, in the second derivative of the current with respect to voltage . 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 oscillations on the metal surface.
Cite
@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}
}