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Experimental Methods for Spin- and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy Combined with Polarization-Variable Laser
Published on: June 28, 2018
Photon polarization precession spectroscopy for high-resolution studies of spin waves
1Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany and The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.
Abstract:
A new type of spectroscopy for high-resolution studies of spin waves that relies on resonant scattering of hard x rays is introduced. The energy transfer in the scattering process is encoded in the precession of the polarization vector of the scattered photons. Thus, the energy resolution of such a spectroscopy is independent of the bandwidth of the probing radiation. The measured quantity resembles the intermediate scattering function of the magnetic excitations in the sample. At pulsed x-ray sources, especially x-ray lasers, the proposed technique allows us to take single-shot spectra of the magnetic dynamics. The method opens new avenues to study low-energy nonequilibrium magnetic processes in a pump-probe setup.
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