Measurement of electron wave functions and confining potentials via photoemission

Abstract

Wave functions and electron potentials of laterally-confined surface states are determined experimentally by means of photoemission from stepped Au(111) surfaces. Using an iterative formalism borrowed from x-ray diffraction, we retrieve the real-space wave functions from the Fourier transform of their momentum representations, whose absolute values in turn are directly measured by angle-resolved photoemission. The effective confining potential is then obtained by introducing the wave functions into Schroedinger's equation.

5 pages, 3 figures

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