Two-Dimensional Metallicity with a Large Spin-Orbit Splitting: DFT Calculations of the Atomic, Electronic, and Spin Structures of the Au/Ge(111)- Surface

Figure 6

(a) Constant-energy contours at 110 meV above the theoretical Fermi energy for the hole-like bands of Ge character. The labels Ge₁ and Ge₂ correspond to the inner and outer contour, respectively. ((b) and (c)) Spin patterns along the inner and outer contours.

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