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Orbital-driven Rashba effect in a binary honeycomb monolayer AgTe
The Rashba effect is fundamental to the physics of two-dimensional electron
systems and underlies a variety of spintronic phenomena. It has been proposed
that the formation of Rashba-type spin splittings originates microscopically
from the existence of orbital angular momentum (OAM) in the Bloch wave
functions. Here, we present detailed experimental evidence for this OAM-based
origin of the Rashba effect by angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) and
two-photon photoemission (2PPE) experiments for a monolayer AgTe on Ag(111).
Using quantitative low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) analysis we determine
the structural parameters and the stacking of the honeycomb overlayer with
picometer precision. Based on an orbital-symmetry analysis in ARPES and
supported by first-principles calculations, we unequivocally relate the
presence and absence of Rashba-type spin splittings in different bands of AgTe
to the existence of OAM