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Angular Correlation of Electron Positron Annihilation Radiation
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<h2 id="investigation-of-the-electronic-structure">Investigation of the electronic structure</h2> <p>All the macroscopic electronic and magnetic properties of a solid result from its microscopic electronic structure. In the simple <a href="/facts/Free_electron_model/vIyhQHfK">free electron model</a>, the electrons do not interact with each other nor with the atomic cores. The relation between energy E {\displaystyle E} and momentum p {\displaystyle p} is given by </p> E = p 2 2 m {\displaystyle E={\frac {p^{2}}{2m}}} <p>with the electron mass m {\displaystyle m} . Hence, there is an unambiguous connection between electron energy and momentum. Because of the <a href="/facts/Pauli_exclusion_principle/lsBKGeHD">Pauli exclusion principle</a> the electrons fill all the states up to a maximum energy, the so-called <a href="/facts/Fermi_energy/S4Q8ShGR">Fermi energy</a>. By the momentum-energy relation, this corresponds to the Fermi momentum p F {\displaystyle p_{F}} . The border between occupied and unoccupied momentum states, the <a href="/facts/Fermi_surface/N6EyILAG">Fermi surface</a>, is arguably the most significant feature of the electronic structure and has a strong influence on the solid's properties.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> In the free electron model, the Fermi surface is a sphere. </p><p>With ACAR it is possible to measure the momentum distribution of the electrons. A measurement on a free electron gas for example would give a positive intensity for momenta p < p F {\displaystyle p<p_{F}} and zero intensity for p > p F {\displaystyle p>p_{F}} . The Fermi surface itself can easily be identified from such a measurement by the discontinuity at p F {\displaystyle p_{F}} . </p> <p>In reality, there <i>is</i> interaction between the electrons with each other and the atomic cores of the crystal. This has several consequences: For example, the unambiguous relation between energy and momentum of an electronic state is broken and an <a href="/facts/Electronic_band_structure/W5o7oE2R">electronic band structure</a> is formed. Measuring the momentum of one electronic state gives a distribution of momenta which are all separated by <a href="/facts/Reciprocal_lattice/jYCjcEpH">reciprocal lattice</a> vectors. Hence, an ACAR measurement on a solid with completely filled bands (i.e. on an <a href="/facts/Insulator_(electricity)/SfSXkrh5">insulator</a>) gives a continuous distribution. An ACAR measurement on a metal has discontinuities where bands cross the Fermi level in all <a href="/facts/Brillouin_zone/V8unhAAl">Brillouin zones</a> in reciprocal space. This discontinuous distribution is superimposed by a continuous distribution from the entirely filled bands. From the discontinuities the Fermi surface can be extracted. </p><p>Since positrons that are created by <a href="/facts/Beta_decay/vxTBlckp">beta decay</a> possess a longitudinal spin polarization it is possible to investigate the spin-resolved electronic structure of magnetic materials. In this way, contributions from the majority and minority spin channel can be separated and the Fermi surface in the respective spin channels can be measured.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p><p>ACAR has several advantages and disadvantages compared to other, more well known techniques for the investigation of the electronic structure like <a href="/facts/ARPES/vQW4b9Dh">ARPES</a> and <a href="/facts/Quantum_oscillation/4eH5nY9N">quantum oscillation</a>: ACAR requires neither low temperatures, high magnetic fields or <a href="/facts/Ultra-high_vacuum/K3Xu5K7I">UHV</a> conditions. Furthermore, it is possible to probe the electronic structure at the surface and in the bulk ( ≈ {\displaystyle \approx } 100 <a href="/facts/Nanometer/a98sjHyu">nm</a> deep). However, ACAR is reliant on defect free samples as vacancy concentrations of up to 10−6 per atom can efficiently trap positrons and distort the measurement.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="theory">Theory</h2> <p>In an ACAR measurement the angular deviation of many pairs of annihilation radiation is measured. Therefore, the underlying physical observable is often called 'two photon momentum density' (TPMD) or ρ 2 γ ( p ) {\displaystyle \rho ^{2\gamma }(\mathbf {p} )} . Quantum mechanically, ρ 2 γ ( p ) {\displaystyle \rho ^{2\gamma }(\mathbf {p} )} can be expressed as the squared absolute value of the <a href="/facts/Fourier_transform/XXhKJtc8">Fourier transform</a> of the multi-particle <a href="/facts/Wave_function/KgM5ykjY">wave function</a> Ψ e p ( r ) {\displaystyle \Psi ^{ep}(\mathbf {r} )} of all the electron and the positron in the solid: </p> ρ 2 γ ( p ) = | ∫ d r e − i 2 π r p Ψ e p ( r ) | 2 {\displaystyle \rho ^{2\gamma }(\mathbf {p} )=\left|\int d\mathbf {r} e^{-i2\pi \mathbf {rp} }\Psi ^{ep}(\mathbf {r} )\right|^{2}} <p>As it is not possible to imagine or compute the multi-particle wave function Ψ e p ( r ) {\displaystyle \Psi ^{ep}(\mathbf {r} )} , it is often written as the sum of the single particle wave functions of the electron Ψ k , j e ( r ) {\displaystyle \Psi _{\mathbf {k} ,j}^{e}(\mathbf {r} )} in the k {\displaystyle \mathbf {k} } th state in the j {\displaystyle j} th band and the positron wave function Ψ p ( r ) {\displaystyle \Psi ^{p}(\mathbf {r} )} : </p> ρ 2 γ ( p ) = ∑ j ∑ k = o c c . | ∫ d r e − i 2 π r p Ψ k , j e ( r ) Ψ p ( r ) γ ( r ) | 2 {\displaystyle \rho ^{2\gamma }(\mathbf {p} )=\sum _{j}\sum _{\mathbf {k} =\mathrm {occ.} }\left|\int d\mathbf {r} e^{-i2\pi \mathbf {rp} }\Psi _{\mathbf {k} ,j}^{e}(\mathbf {r} )\Psi ^{p}(\mathbf {r} ){\sqrt {\gamma (\mathbf {r} )}}\right|^{2}} <p>The enhancement factor γ ( r ) {\displaystyle \gamma (\mathbf {r} )} accounts for the electron-positron correlation.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> There exist sophisticated enhancement models to describe the electron-positron correlations,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> but in the following it will be assumed that γ = 1 {\displaystyle \gamma =1} . This approximation is called the independent particle model (IPM). </p><p>A very illustrative form of the TPMD can be obtained by the use of the Fourier coefficients for the wave function product Ψ k , j e ( r ) Ψ p ( r ) {\displaystyle \Psi _{\mathbf {k} ,j}^{e}(\mathbf {r} )\Psi ^{p}(\mathbf {r} )} : </p> C G , j ( k ) = ∫ ∫ d r e − i 2 π r ( k + G ) Ψ k , j e ( r ) Ψ p ( r ) {\displaystyle C_{\mathbf {G} ,j}(\mathbf {k} )=\int \int d\mathbf {r} e^{-i2\pi \mathbf {r(k+G)} }\Psi _{\mathbf {k} ,j}^{e}(\mathbf {r} )\Psi ^{p}(\mathbf {r} )} <p>These Fourier coefficients are distributed over all reciprocal vectors G {\displaystyle \mathbf {G} } . If one assumes that the overlap of the electron and the positron wave function is constant for the same band j {\displaystyle j} , summing ρ 2 γ ( p ) {\displaystyle \rho ^{2\gamma }(\mathbf {p} )} over all reciprocal lattice vectors gives a very instructive result:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> P 2 γ ( k ) = ∑ G ρ 2 γ ( G + k ) = ∑ j ∑ k = o c c . | C G , j ( k ) | 2 = ∑ j A j Θ ( k F − k ) {\displaystyle \mathrm {P} ^{2\gamma }(\mathbf {k} )=\sum _{\mathbf {G} }\rho ^{2\gamma }(\mathbf {G+k} )=\sum _{j}\sum _{\mathbf {k} =\mathrm {occ.} }\left|C_{\mathbf {G} ,j}(\mathbf {k} )\right|^{2}=\sum _{j}A_{j}\Theta (\mathbf {k} _{F}-\mathbf {k} )} <p>The function Θ ( k ) {\displaystyle \Theta (\mathbf {k} )} is the <a href="/facts/Heaviside_step_function/bgsUtxgP">Heaviside step function</a> and the constant A j = ∑ G | C G , j ( k ) | 2 {\displaystyle A_{j}=\sum _{\mathbf {G} }\left|C_{\mathbf {G} ,j}(\mathbf {k} )\right|^{2}} . This means, if ρ 2 γ ( p ) {\displaystyle \rho ^{2\gamma }(\mathbf {p} )} is folded back into the first Brillouin zone, the resulting density is flat except at the Fermi momentum. Therefore, the Fermi surface can be easily identified by looking for this discontinuities in P 2 γ ( k ) {\displaystyle \mathrm {P} ^{2\gamma }(\mathbf {k} )} . </p> <h2 id="experimental-details">Experimental details</h2> <p>When a positron is implanted into a solid it will quickly lose all its kinetic energy and annihilate with an electron. By this process two gamma quanta with 511 keV each are created which are in the reference frame of the electron positron pair emitted in exactly anti-parallel directions. In the laboratory frame, however, there is a <a href="/facts/Doppler_shift/bzrK1BKf">Doppler shift</a> from 511 keV and an angular deviation from collinearity. Although the full momentum information about the momentum of the electron is encoded in the annihilation radiation, due to technical limitations it cannot be fully recovered. Either one measures the <a href="/facts/Doppler_broadening/7DW5hCNQ">Doppler broadening</a> of the 511 keV annihilation radiation (DBAR) or the angular correlation of the annihilation radiation (ACAR). </p><p>For DBAR a detector with a high energy resolution like a high purity <a href="/facts/Semiconductor_detector/HzvpIobR">germanium detector</a> is needed. Such detectors typically do not resolve the position of absorbed photons. Hence only the longitudinal component of the electron momentum p ∥ {\displaystyle p_{\parallel }} can be measured. The resulting measurement is a 1D projection of ρ 2 γ ( p ) {\displaystyle \rho ^{2\gamma }(\mathbf {p} )} . </p><p>In ACAR position sensitive detectors, <a href="/facts/Gamma_camera/coGxuajk">gamma cameras</a> or <a href="/facts/Wire_chamber/BKstxtE9">multi wire proportional chambers</a>, are used. Such detectors have a position resolution of typically 1 to 3 mm but an energy resolution which is just good enough to sort out scattered photons or background radiation. As p ∥ {\displaystyle p_{\parallel }} is discarded, a 2D projection of ρ 2 γ ( p ) {\displaystyle \rho ^{2\gamma }(\mathbf {p} )} is measured. In order to get a high angular resolution of 1×10−3 rad and better, the detectors have to be set up at distances between 16 and 20 m from each other. Although it is possible to get even better angular resolutions by placing the detectors further apart, this comes at cost of the counting rate. Already with moderate detector distances, the measurement of one projection of ρ 2 γ ( p ) {\displaystyle \rho ^{2\gamma }(\mathbf {p} )} typically takes weeks.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p><p>As ACAR measures projections of the TPMD it is necessary to reconstruct ρ 2 γ ( p ) {\displaystyle \rho ^{2\gamma }(\mathbf {p} )} in order to recover the Fermi surface. For such a reconstruction similar techniques as for X-ray <a href="/facts/Computed_tomography/NusPJ2S8">computed tomography</a> are used. In contrast to a human body, a crystal has many symmetries which can be included into the reconstruction. This makes the procedure more complex but increases the quality of the reconstruction. Another way to evaluate ACAR spectra is by a quantitative comparison with <a href="/facts/Ab_initio_calculations/01yjmrC8">ab initio calculations</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>In the early years, ACAR was mainly used to investigate the physics of the electron-positron annihilation process. In the 1930s several annihilation mechanism were discussed.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Otto_Klemperer_(physicist)/XVuyoPCG">Otto Klemperer</a> could show with his angular correlation setup that the electron-positron pairs annihilate mainly into two gamma quanta which are emitted anti-parallel.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> In the 1950s, it was realized that by measuring the deviation from collinearity of the annihilation radiation information about the electronic structure of a solid can be obtained.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> </p><p>During this time mainly setups with 'long slit geometry' were used. They consisted of a positron source and a sample in the center, one fixed detector on one side and a second movable detector on the other side of the sample. Each detector was collimated in such a way that the active area was much smaller in one than in the other dimension (thus 'long slit').<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> A measurement with a long slit setup yields a 1D projection of the electron momentum density ρ 2 γ ( p ) {\displaystyle \rho ^{2\gamma }(\mathbf {p} )} . Hence, this technique is called 1D-ACAR. </p><p>The development of two-dimensional <a href="/facts/Gamma_camera/coGxuajk">gamma cameras</a> and <a href="/facts/Wire_chamber/BKstxtE9">multi wire proportional chambers</a> in the 1970s and early 1980s led to the setting up of the first 2D-ACAR spectrometer.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> This was an improvement to 1D-ACAR in two ways: i) The detection efficiency could be improved and ii) the informational content was greatly increased as the measurement gave a 2D projection of ρ 2 γ ( p ) {\displaystyle \rho ^{2\gamma }(\mathbf {p} )} . An important early example of the use of spin-polarized 2D-ACAR is the proof of <a href="/facts/Half-metal/tnpCBY0c">half metallicity</a> in the half-<a href="/facts/Heusler_alloy/12ro9MxT">Heusler alloy</a> NiMnSb.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li>Dupasquier, Alfredo (1995-01-01). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ptcd3JbojkMC"><i>Positron Spectroscopy of Solids</i></a>. IOS Press. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9789051992038.</li> <li>Dugdale, S. B. (2014). <a href="https://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/en/publications/probing-the-fermi-surface-by-positron-annihilation-and-compton-scattering(df44f2a9-b0e0-4900-8fb2-8a74d13a3889).html">"Probing the Fermi surface by positron annihilation and Compton scattering"</a>. <i>Low Temperature Physics</i>. 40 (4): 328. <a href="/facts/Bibcode_(identifier)/9HtdQSGB">Bibcode</a>:<a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014LTP....40..328D">2014LTP....40..328D</a>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1063%2F1.4869588">10.1063/1.4869588</a>. <a href="/facts/Hdl_(identifier)/rdebSxmC">hdl</a>:<a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1983%2Fdf44f2a9-b0e0-4900-8fb2-8a74d13a3889">1983/df44f2a9-b0e0-4900-8fb2-8a74d13a3889</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Dugdale, S. B. (2016-01-01). "Life on the edge: a beginner's guide to the Fermi surface". Physica Scripta. 91 (5): 053009. Bibcode:2016PhyS...91e3009D. doi:10.1088/0031-8949/91/5/053009. hdl:1983/18576e8a-c769-424d-8ac2-1c52ef80700e. ISSN 1402-4896. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1088%2F0031-8949%2F91%2F5%2F053009" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1088%2F0031-8949%2F91%2F5%2F053009</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Weber, J. A. (2015-01-01). "Spin-Resolved Fermi Surface of the Localized Ferromagnetic Heusler Compound". Physical Review Letters. 115 (20): 206404. arXiv:1510.07808. Bibcode:2015PhRvL.115t6404W. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.206404. PMID 26613459. S2CID 29184856. <a href="/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>This sensitivity is used in positron lifetime spectroscopy to investigate even very low defect concentrations. <a href="/wiki/Positron_Lifetime_Spectroscopy" target="_blank">/wiki/Positron_Lifetime_Spectroscopy</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>For simplicity the electron-electron correlation is ignored in this example. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Jarlborg, T.; Singh, A. K. (1987-01-09). "Local-density approach for calculation of electron-positron enhancement in transition metals". Phys. Rev. B. 36 (9): 4660–4663. Bibcode:1987PhRvB..36.4660J. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.36.4660. PMID 9943477. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Lock, D. G.; Crisp, V. H. C.; West, R. N. (1973-01-01). "Positron annihilation and Fermi surface studies: a new approach". Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics. 3 (3): 561. Bibcode:1973JPhF....3..561L. doi:10.1088/0305-4608/3/3/014. ISSN 0305-4608. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Further details about an ACAR setup can be found in [6] <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Ceeh, Hubert (2016-02-16). "Local electron-electron interaction strength in ferromagnetic nickel determined by spin-polarized positron annihilation". Scientific Reports. 6: 20898. arXiv:1501.02584. Bibcode:2016NatSR...620898C. doi:10.1038/srep20898. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 4754699. 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