@article{VoroshninTarasovBokaietal.2022,
  author    = {Voroshnin, Vladimir and Tarasov, Artem V. and Bokai, Kirill A. and Chikina, Alla and Senkovskiy, Boris V. and Ehlen, Niels and Usachov, Dmitry Yu. and Gruneis, Alexander and Krivenkov, Maxim and Sanchez-Barriga, Jaime and Fedorov, Alexander},
  title     = {Direct spectroscopic evidence of magnetic proximity effect in MoS2 monolayer on graphene/Co},
  series = {ACS nano},
  volume    = {16},
  journal   = {ACS nano},
  number    = {5},
  publisher = {American Chemical Society},
  address   = {Washington},
  issn      = {1936-0851},
  doi       = {10.1021/acsnano.1c10391},
  pages     = {7448 -- 7456},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {A magnetic field modifies optical properties and provides valley splitting in a molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) monolayer. Here we demonstrate a scalable approach to the epitaxial synthesis of MoS2 monolayer on a magnetic graphene/Co system. Using spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy we observe a magnetic proximity effect that causes a 20 meV spin-splitting at the (Gamma) over bar point and canting of spins at the (K) over bar point in the valence band toward the in-plane direction of cobalt magnetization. Our density functional theory calculations reveal that the in-plane spin component at (K) over bar is localized on Co atoms in the valence band, while in the conduction band it is localized on the MoS2 layer. The calculations also predict a 16 meV spin-splitting at the (Gamma) over bar point and 8 meV (K) over bar-(K) over bar' valley asymmetry for an out-of-plane magnetization. These findings suggest control over optical transitions in MoS2 via Co magnetization. Our estimations show that the magnetic proximity effect is equivalent to the action of the magnetic field as large as 100 T.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{VarykhalovFreyseAguileraetal.2020,
  author    = {Varykhalov, Andrei and Freyse, Friedrich and Aguilera, Irene and Battiato, Marco and Krivenkov, Maxim and Marchenko, Dmitry and Bihlmayer, Gustav and Blugel, Stefan and Rader, Oliver and Sanchez-Barriga, Jaime},
  title     = {Effective mass enhancement and ultrafast electron dynamics of Au(111) surface state coupled to a quantum well},
  series = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {1},
  issn      = {1866-8372},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-54989},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-549892},
  pages     = {11},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {We show that, although the equilibrium band dispersion of the Shockley-type surface state of two-dimensional Au(111) quantum films grown on W(110) does not deviate from the expected free-electron-like behavior, its nonequilibrium energy-momentum dispersion probed by time- and angle-resolved photoemission exhibits a remarkable kink above the Fermi level due to a significant enhancement of the effective mass. The kink is pronounced for certain thicknesses of the Au quantum well and vanishes in the very thin limit. We identify the kink as induced by the coupling between the Au(111) surface state and emergent quantum-well states which probe directly the buried gold-tungsten interface. The signatures of the coupling are further revealed by our time-resolved measurements which show that surface state and quantum-well states thermalize together behaving as dynamically locked electron populations. In particular, relaxation of hot carriers following laser excitation is similar for both surface state and quantum-well states and much slower than expected for a bulk metallic system. The influence of quantum confinement on the interplay between elementary scattering processes of the electrons at the surface and ultrafast carrier transport in the direction perpendicular to the surface is shown to be the reason for the slow electron dynamics.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{VarykhalovFreyseAguileraetal.2020,
  author    = {Varykhalov, Andrei and Freyse, Friedrich and Aguilera, Irene and Battiato, Marco and Krivenkov, Maxim and Marchenko, Dmitry and Bihlmayer, Gustav and Blugel, Stefan and Rader, Oliver and Sanchez-Barriga, Jaime},
  title     = {Effective mass enhancement and ultrafast electron dynamics of Au(111) surface state coupled to a quantum well},
  series = {Physical Review Research},
  volume    = {2},
  journal   = {Physical Review Research},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {American Physical Society},
  address   = {Ridge, NY},
  issn      = {0031-9007},
  doi       = {10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013343},
  pages     = {1 -- 9},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {We show that, although the equilibrium band dispersion of the Shockley-type surface state of two-dimensional Au(111) quantum films grown on W(110) does not deviate from the expected free-electron-like behavior, its nonequilibrium energy-momentum dispersion probed by time- and angle-resolved photoemission exhibits a remarkable kink above the Fermi level due to a significant enhancement of the effective mass. The kink is pronounced for certain thicknesses of the Au quantum well and vanishes in the very thin limit. We identify the kink as induced by the coupling between the Au(111) surface state and emergent quantum-well states which probe directly the buried gold-tungsten interface. The signatures of the coupling are further revealed by our time-resolved measurements which show that surface state and quantum-well states thermalize together behaving as dynamically locked electron populations. In particular, relaxation of hot carriers following laser excitation is similar for both surface state and quantum-well states and much slower than expected for a bulk metallic system. The influence of quantum confinement on the interplay between elementary scattering processes of the electrons at the surface and ultrafast carrier transport in the direction perpendicular to the surface is shown to be the reason for the slow electron dynamics.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SajediKrivenkovMarchenkoetal.2020,
  author    = {Sajedi, Maryam and Krivenkov, Maxim and Marchenko, Dmitry and Varykhalov, Andrei and Sanchez-Barriga, Jaime and Rienks, Emile D. L. and Rader, Oliver},
  title     = {Absence of a giant Rashba effect in the valence band of lead halide perovskites},
  series = {Physical review : B, Condensed matter and materials physics},
  volume    = {102},
  journal   = {Physical review : B, Condensed matter and materials physics},
  number    = {8},
  publisher = {American Institute of Physics; American Physical Society (APS)},
  address   = {Woodbury, NY},
  issn      = {2469-9950},
  doi       = {10.1103/PhysRevB.102.081116},
  pages     = {6},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {For hybrid organic-inorganic as well as all-inorganic lead halide perovskites a Rashba effect has been invoked to explain the high efficiency in energy conversion by prohibiting direct recombination. Both a bulk and surface Rashba effect have been predicted. In the valence band of methylammonium (MA) lead bromide a Rashba effect has been reported by angle-resolved photoemission and circular dichroism with giant values of 7-11 eV angstrom. We present band dispersion measurements of MAPbBr(3) and spin-resolved photoemission of CsPbBr3 to show that a large Rashba effect detectable by photoemission or circular dichroism does not exist and cannot be the origin of the high effciency.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SajediKrivenkovMarchenkoetal.2022,
  author    = {Sajedi, Maryam and Krivenkov, Maxim and Marchenko, Dmitry and Sanchez-Barriga, Jaime and Chandran, Anoop K. and Varykhalov, Andrei and Rienks, Emile D. L. and Aguilera, Irene and Bl{\"u}gel, Stefan and Rader, Oliver},
  title     = {Is there a polaron signature in Angle-Resolved Photoemission of CsPbBr3?},
  series = {Physical review letters},
  volume    = {128},
  journal   = {Physical review letters},
  number    = {17},
  publisher = {American Physical Society},
  address   = {College Park},
  issn      = {0031-9007},
  doi       = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.176405},
  pages     = {7},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {The formation of large polarons has been proposed as reason for the high defect tolerance, low mobility, low charge carrier trapping, and low nonradiative recombination rates of lead halide perovskites. Recently, direct evidence for large-polaron formation has been reported from a 50\% effective mass enhancement in angle-resolved photoemission of CsPbBr3 over theory for the orthorhombic structure. We present in-depth band dispersion measurements of CsPbBr3 and GW calculations, which lead to similar effective masses at the valence band maximum of 0.203 1 0.016 m0 in experiment and 0.226 m0 in orthorhombic theory. We argue that the effective mass can be explained solely on the basis of electron-electron correlation and largepolaron formation cannot be concluded from photoemission data.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{RienksWimmerSanchezBarrigaetal.2019,
  author    = {Rienks, Emile D. L. and Wimmer, S. and Sanchez-Barriga, Jaime and Caha, O. and Mandal, Partha Sarathi and Ruzicka, J. and Ney, A. and Steiner, H. and Volobuev, V. V. and Groiss, H. and Albu, M. and Kothleitner, G. and Michalicka, J. and Khan, S. A. and Minar, J. and Ebert, H. and Bauer, G. and Freyse, Friedrich and Varykhalov, Andrei and Rader, Oliver and Springholz, Gunther},
  title     = {Large magnetic gap at the Dirac point in Bi2Te3/MnBi2Te4 heterostructures},
  series = {Nature : the international weekly journal of science},
  volume    = {576},
  journal   = {Nature : the international weekly journal of science},
  number    = {7787},
  publisher = {Nature Publ. Group},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {0028-0836},
  doi       = {10.1038/s41586-019-1826-7},
  pages     = {423 -- 428},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Magnetically doped topological insulators enable the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE), which provides quantized edge states for lossless charge-transport applications(1-8). The edge states are hosted by a magnetic energy gap at the Dirac point(2), but hitherto all attempts to observe this gap directly have been unsuccessful. Observing the gap is considered to be essential to overcoming the limitations of the QAHE, which so far occurs only at temperatures that are one to two orders of magnitude below the ferromagnetic Curie temperature, T-C (ref. (8)). Here we use low-temperature photoelectron spectroscopy to unambiguously reveal the magnetic gap of Mn-doped Bi2Te3, which displays ferromagnetic out-of-plane spin texture and opens up only below T-C. Surprisingly, our analysis reveals large gap sizes at 1 kelvin of up to 90 millielectronvolts, which is five times larger than theoretically predicted(9). Using multiscale analysis we show that this enhancement is due to a remarkable structure modification induced by Mn doping: instead of a disordered impurity system, a self-organized alternating sequence of MnBi2Te4 septuple and Bi2Te3 quintuple layers is formed. This enhances the wavefunction overlap and size of the magnetic gap(10). Mn-doped Bi2Se3 (ref. (11)) and Mn-doped Sb2Te3 form similar heterostructures, but for Bi2Se3 only a nonmagnetic gap is formed and the magnetization is in the surface plane. This is explained by the smaller spin-orbit interaction by comparison with Mn-doped Bi2Te3. Our findings provide insights that will be crucial in pushing lossless transport in topological insulators towards room-temperature applications.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KrivenkovGoliasMarchenkoetal.2017,
  author    = {Krivenkov, Maxim and Golias, Evangelos and Marchenko, Dmitry and Sanchez-Barriga, Jaime and Bihlmayer, Gustav and Rader, Oliver and Varykhalov, Andrei},
  title     = {Nanostructural origin of giant Rashba effect in intercalated graphene},
  series = {2D Materials},
  volume    = {4},
  journal   = {2D Materials},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {IOP Publ. Ltd.},
  address   = {Bristol},
  issn      = {2053-1583},
  doi       = {10.1088/2053-1583/aa7ad8},
  pages     = {11},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {To enhance the spin-orbit interaction in graphene by a proximity effect without compromising the quasi-free-standing dispersion of the Dirac cones means balancing the opposing demands for strong and weak graphene-substrate interaction. So far, only the intercalation of Au under graphene/Ni(111) has proven successful, which was unexpected since graphene prefers a large separation (similar to 3.3 angstrom) from a Au monolayer in equilibrium. Here, we investigate this system and find the solution in a nanoscale effect. We reveal that the Au largely intercalates as nanoclusters. Our density functional theory calculations show that the graphene is periodically stapled to the Ni substrate, and this attraction presses graphene and Au nanoclusters together. This, in turn, causes a Rashba effect of the giant magnitude observed in experiment. Our findings show that nanopatterning of the substrate can be efficiently used for engineering of spin-orbit effects in graphene.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HlawenkaSiemensmeyerWeschkeetal.2018,
  author    = {Hlawenka, Peter and Siemensmeyer, Konrad and Weschke, Eugen and Varykhalov, Andrei and Sanchez-Barriga, Jaime and Shitsevalova, Natalya Y. and Dukhnenko, A. V. and Filipov, V. B. and Gabani, Slavomir and Flachbart, Karol and Rader, Oliver and Rienks, Emile D. L.},
  title     = {Samarium hexaboride is a trivial surface conductor},
  series = {Nature Communications},
  volume    = {9},
  journal   = {Nature Communications},
  publisher = {Nature Publ. Group},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {2041-1723},
  doi       = {10.1038/s41467-018-02908-7},
  pages     = {7},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {SmB6 is predicted to be the first member of the intersection of topological insulators and Kondo insulators, strongly correlated materials in which the Fermi level lies in the gap of a many-body resonance that forms by hybridization between localized and itinerant states. While robust, surface-only conductivity at low temperature and the observation of surface states at the expected high symmetry points appear to confirm this prediction, we find both surface states at the (100) surface to be topologically trivial. We find the (Gamma) over bar state to appear Rashba split and explain the prominent (X) over bar state by a surface shift of the many-body resonance. We propose that the latter mechanism, which applies to several crystal terminations, can explain the unusual surface conductivity. While additional, as yet unobserved topological surface states cannot be excluded, our results show that a firm connection between the two material classes is still outstanding.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ClarkWadgaonkarFreyseetal.2022,
  author    = {Clark, Oliver J. and Wadgaonkar, Indrajit and Freyse, Friedrich and Springholz, Gunther and Battiato, Marco and Sanchez-Barriga, Jaime},
  title     = {Ultrafast thermalization pathways of excited bulk and surface states in the ferroelectric rashba semiconductor GeTe},
  series = {Advanced materials},
  volume    = {34},
  journal   = {Advanced materials},
  number    = {24},
  publisher = {Wiley-VCH},
  address   = {Weinheim},
  issn      = {0935-9648},
  doi       = {10.1002/adma.202200323},
  pages     = {13},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {A large Rashba effect is essential for future applications in spintronics. Particularly attractive is understanding and controlling nonequilibrium properties of ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors. Here, time- and angle-resolved photoemission is utilized to access the ultrafast dynamics of bulk and surface transient Rashba states after femtosecond optical excitation of GeTe. A complex thermalization pathway is observed, wherein three different timescales can be clearly distinguished: intraband thermalization, interband equilibration, and electronic cooling. These dynamics exhibit an unconventional temperature dependence: while the cooling phase speeds up with increasing sample temperature, the opposite happens for interband thermalization. It is demonstrated how, due to the Rashba effect, an interdependence of these timescales on the relative strength of both electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions is responsible for the counterintuitive temperature dependence, with spin-selection constrained interband electron-electron scatterings found both to dominate dynamics away from the Fermi level, and to weaken with increasing temperature. These findings are supported by theoretical calculations within the Boltzmann approach explicitly showing the opposite behavior of all relevant electron-electron and electron-phonon scattering channels with temperature, thus confirming the microscopic mechanism of the experimental findings. The present results are important for future applications of ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors and their excitations in ultrafast spintronics.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ClarkFreyseYashinaetal.2022,
  author    = {Clark, Oliver J. and Freyse, Friedrich and Yashina, L. V. and Rader, Oliver and Sanchez-Barriga, Jaime},
  title     = {Robust behavior and spin-texture stability of the topological surface state in Bi2Se3 upon deposition of gold},
  series = {npj quantum materials},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {npj quantum materials},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {2397-4648},
  doi       = {10.1038/s41535-022-00443-9},
  pages     = {7},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {The Dirac point of a topological surface state (TSS) is protected against gapping by time-reversal symmetry. Conventional wisdom stipulates, therefore, that only through magnetisation may a TSS become gapped. However, non-magnetic gaps have now been demonstrated in Bi2Se3 systems doped with Mn or In, explained by hybridisation of the Dirac cone with induced impurity resonances. Recent photoemission experiments suggest that an analogous mechanism applies even when Bi2Se3 is surface dosed with Au. Here, we perform a systematic spin- and angle-resolved photoemission study of Au-dosed Bi2Se3. Although there are experimental conditions wherein the TSS appears gapped due to unfavourable photoemission matrix elements, our photon-energy-dependent spectra unambiguously demonstrate the robustness of the Dirac cone against high Au coverage. We further show how the spin textures of the TSS and its accompanying surface resonances remain qualitatively unchanged following Au deposition, and discuss the mechanism underlying the suppression of the spectral weight.},
  language  = {en}
}