@article{36390af8d13f439fa929358658e884be,
title = "Band-Resolved Imaging of Photocurrent in a Topological Insulator",
abstract = "We study the microscopic origins of photocurrent generation in the topological insulator Bi2Se3 via time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We image the unoccupied band structure as it evolves following a circularly polarized optical excitation and observe an asymmetric electron population in momentum space, which is the spectroscopic signature of a photocurrent. By analyzing the rise times of the population we identify which occupied and unoccupied electronic states are coupled by the optical excitation. We conclude that photocurrents can only be excited via resonant optical transitions coupling to spin-orbital textured states. Our work provides a microscopic understanding of how to control photocurrents in systems with spin-orbit coupling and broken inversion symmetry.",
author = "H. Soifer and A. Gauthier and Kemper, {A. F.} and Rotundu, {C. R.} and Yang, {S. L.} and H. Xiong and D. Lu and M. Hashimoto and Kirchmann, {P. S.} and Sobota, {J. A.} and Shen, {Z. X.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 American Physical Society.",
year = "2019",
month = apr,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.167401",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "122",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "16",
}