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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 90, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.056803
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We report the observation of a magnetic contrast of up to 20% in the scanning tunneling spectroscopy dI/dV maps obtained with Fe-coated tips on Mn(001) layers grown on an Fe(001) whisker at 370 K. These nanometer resolution microscopy results show that the layers couple antiferromagnetically. By normalizing the dI/dV curves by tunneling probability functions, we found a spin-dependent peak on the body-centered-tetragonal (bct) Mn(001) surface at +0.8 V, whose high spin polarization gives rise to the dI/dV map contrast. Band structure calculations allow one to identify the +0.8 V peak as due to two spin-polarized d(z)(2) surface states.
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