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Recent publications
1.  Dudy L., Chudziński P., Aulbach J., Rogalev V., Schäfer J., Claessen R., Temperature dependent ARPES of the metallic-like bands in Si(553)-Au, Surface Science, ISSN: 0039-6028, DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2023.122356, Vol.737, No.122356, pp.1-7, 2023

Abstract:
We conducted a thorough investigation into the temperature dependence of the metallic-like bands of Si(553)-Au using angular-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). Our study addresses the challenges posed by the short-term stability of the surface and photo-voltage effects, which we overcame to extract changes in the band-filling and Fermi-velocity. Our findings shed light on the low-temperature phase of the step edge in Si(553)-Au, which has been a topic of ongoing debate regarding its structural or electronic nature. Through comparison with theoretical predictions of a structural-related low-temperature to high-temperature phase transition, we discovered that the band-filling and Fermi-velocity do not change accordingly, thereby ruling out this scenario. Our study contributes to a better understanding of this material system and provides an important reference for future research.

Affiliations:
Dudy L. - other affiliation
Chudziński P. - IPPT PAN
Aulbach J. - other affiliation
Rogalev V. - other affiliation
Schäfer J. - other affiliation
Claessen R. - other affiliation
2.  Chudziński P., Aulbach J., Schäfer J., Claessen R., Partial gap in two-leg ladders with Rashba effect and its experimental signatures in Si(553)-Au, Physical Review B, ISSN: 2469-9969, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.205407, Vol.104, pp.205407-1-15, 2021

Abstract:
We study the effects of Rashba splitting on two-leg ladders with weakly screened Coulomb interactions. Past research has shown that in this class of systems the two backscattering channels with the largest amplitude favor ordering of canonically conjugated collective fields which effectively renders the system gapless. Here we show that the band-dependent Rashba spin-orbit interaction breaks this symmetry of scattering channels, leading to a new fixed point with yet unexplored instabilities. Exotic properties can be found, for instance, the mixing of the magnetism with the charge-density wave. We then investigate the physical consequences of this partial spectral gap opening. We find a striking difference in signatures of order observed in single-particle (spectral-function) and two-body (susceptibilities) experimental probes. We conclude this paper by comparing theoretical and experimental results obtained on the Au-Si(553) platform. In STM measurements, we identify the lowest-lying soliton excitation as a hallmark of the gapped sine-Gordon model in an apparently metallic system. This implies the presence of partial spectral gaps opening. Furthermore, by ARPES measurements we confirm the expected temperature dependence of the outer bands backfolding. These two findings constitute the experimental evidence of the many-body physics proposed here.

Affiliations:
Chudziński P. - IPPT PAN
Aulbach J. - other affiliation
Schäfer J. - other affiliation
Claessen R. - other affiliation

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