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KFM: Fachverband Kristalline Festkörper und deren Mikrostruktur
KFM 13: Topological Insulators and Semimetals (joint session TT/KFM)
KFM 13.1: Talk
Friday, October 1, 2021, 10:00–10:15, H7
Wave-particle duality of electrons with spin-momentum locking — •Dario Bercioux1,2, Tineke van den Berg1, Dario Ferrero3,4,5, Jerome Rech4, Thibaut Jonckheere4, and Thierry Martin4 — 1Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Manuel de Lardizbal 4, E-20018 San Sebastián, Spain — 2IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation of Science, 48011 Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain — 3Aix Marseille Univ, Université de Toulon, CNRS, CPT, Marseille, France — 4Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146, Genova, Italy — 5SPIN-CNR, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova, Italy
We investigate the effects of spin-momentum locking on the interference and diffraction pattern of electrons in a double- or single-slit Gedankenexperiment. We show that the inclusion of the spin degree-of-freedom when coupled to the carrier’s motion direction — a typical situation occurring in systems with spin-orbit interaction — leads to modify the interference and diffraction patterns depending on the geometrical parameters system.
[1] Bercioux et al., Eur. Phys. J. Plus 135, 811 (2020)