Welcome at the Chair of Experimental Physics VII

Spectroscopy on Condensed Matter Systems

Head of Chair

Prof. Dr. Friedrich Reinert

Office (F-162)

Hiltrud Eaton & Rosmarie Riegel

Phone: +49 931 31-85756
Fax: +49 931 31-85158
Email: ep7-sekretariat@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de

EP VII-Seminar

From Sunday 30th of September to Tuesday 1st of October, we will hold our EP7 chair retreat in the Hotel Mühlbergblick in the Thüringer Wald.

We are looking forward to a lot of talks and interesting discussions about condensed matter physics, as well as theoretical and experimental methods and backgrounds.

We are especially pleased to announce our guest speakers namely Prof. Dr. Vladimir Hinkov, Dr. Domenico Di Sante, MSc. Benjamin Katter, MSc. Philipp Eck and MSc. Lukas Lunczer.

Recent Highlights

Spin-Texture Inversion in the Giant Rashba Semiconductor BiTeI

Abstract

Semiconductors with strong spin-orbit interaction as the underlying mechanism for the generation of spin-polarized electrons are showing potential for applications in spintronic devices. Unveiling the full spin texture in momentum space for such materials and its relation to the microscopic structure of the electronic wave functions is experimentally challenging and yet essential for exploiting spin-orbit effects for [...]

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Valence Characterization of Samarium Hexaboride

Abstract

Samarium hexaboride (SmB₆), which lies in the mixed valence regime in the Anderson model, has been predicted to possess topologically protected surface states. The intensive investigations on SmB₆ have brought up the long standing questions about the discrepancy between the surface and bulk electronic properties in rare-earth compounds in general. Here, we investigate and eventually clarify this discrepancy in the particular case of SmB6 by the photoemission [...]

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Electron-Vibration Coupling in Molecular Materials

Abstract

Electron-phonon coupling is one of the most fundamental effects in condensed matter physics. We here demonstrate that photoelectron momentum mapping can reveal and visualize the coupling between specific vibrational modes and electronic excitations. When imaging molecular orbitals with high energy resolution, the intensity patterns of photoelectrons of the vibronic sidebands of molecular states show characteristic changes due to the distortion [...]

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