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Electron Lifetimes in a 2D Electron-Gas with Rashba SO-Coupling: Screening Properties

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Ultrafast Magnetism I

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We calculate lifetimes due to electron-electron scattering in a 2D Rashba band structure and study the influence of the substrate screening. A comparison with measurements on the quantum-well system Bi/Cu(111) is presented.

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Acknowledgments

S. Mathias was supported by the European Community’s FP7 under Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship GA 253316. S. Vollmar and S. Jakobs are recipients of a fellowship through the Excellence Initiative (DFG/GSC266).

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  1. Department of Physics and Research Center OPTIMAS, University of Kaiserslautern, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    A. Ruffing, A. Baral, S. Kaltenborn, M. Cinchetti, M. Aeschlimann, S. Mathias & H. C. Schneider

  2. Graduate School MAINZ, University of Kaiserslautern, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    S. Vollmar & S. Jakobs

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  1. Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS), Université de Strasbourg and CNRS, Strasbourg, France

    Jean-Yves Bigot

  2. Department of Physics, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

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    Roy Chantrell

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Vollmar, S. et al. (2015). Electron Lifetimes in a 2D Electron-Gas with Rashba SO-Coupling: Screening Properties. In: Bigot, JY., Hübner, W., Rasing, T., Chantrell, R. (eds) Ultrafast Magnetism I. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 159. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07743-7_56

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