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Scattering by Cu adatoms between image-potential bands on Cu(001)

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With the increasing resolution and sensitivity of photoelectron spectroscopy, the influence of defects is becoming more and more obvious. Scattering processes induced by adsorbate atoms can be studied by time- and angle-resolved two-photon photoemission. We have examined the dynamics of electrons in image-potential states on the Cu(001) surface for statistically distributed Cu adatoms and have identified different scattering mechanisms. Scattering of electrons from the second (n=2) to the bottom of the first (n=1) image-potential band is observed, which we attribute to inelastic interband scattering with electrons in the bulk. At energies above the bottom of the n=2 band, resonant interband scattering from the n=2 to the n=1 image-potential band is found. The rate for these processes can be determined by modeling the time-resolved measurements via optical Bloch equations of a four-level system. Comparison of the transition and decay rates reveals that the decay rate of the n=2 electrons is almost exclusively changed by additional resonant interband-scattering processes upon adsorption.

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73.20.At; 79.60.Ht; 68.49.Jk

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Boger, K., Weinelt, M., Wang, J. et al. Scattering by Cu adatoms between image-potential bands on Cu(001). Appl Phys A 78, 161–164 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-003-2312-4

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