Theory of spin-polarized high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy from nonmagnetic surfaces with a large spin-orbit coupling

Khalil Zakeri, Christophe Berthod

The scattering theory of low-energy (slow) electrons has been developed by Evans and Mills [Phys. Rev. B 5, 4126 (1972)]. The formalism is merely based on the electrostatic Coulomb…