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Fully Relativistic Layer-KKR Green Function Theory and Its Application to Spin-Polarized Photoemission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

Eiiti Tamura*
Affiliation:
Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universität Duisburg-GH, D-4100 Duisburg, Germany
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Abstract

A fully relativistic layer-KKR formalism is developed for calculating the single-particle Green function in atomic layers parallel to crystalline surfaces of magnetic and nonmagnetic materials. Its application to spin-polarized photoemission is also discussed.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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