Spin-resolved photoemission from Ag(111): Theory and experiment

Using circularly polarized synchrotron radiation between 14 and 24 eV, spin-resolved normal photoemission spectra have been measured from an unreconstructed Ag(111) surface. Corresponding spectra were calculated by means of a fully relativistic one-step theory of photoemission together with the bulk band structures for real and complex potentials, using two different local approximations for the exchange-correlation potential. Experiment and theory employing anX potential agree well with regard to existence and positions of peaks. Relative peak heights match except for an observed enhancement at photon energies, at which two or more direct interband transitions may resonate.