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Experimental Techniques 27<br />

Let us now assume that the final state with N − 1 electrons has s excited states<br />

with the wave function ψf,s k and energy E s (N − 1).<br />

The transition matrix element can be calculated by summing over all the possible<br />

excited final states yielding,<br />

〈ψ f |r|ψ i 〉 = 〈φ f,Ekin |r|φ i,k 〉 ∑ s<br />

c s (2.7)<br />

with<br />

c s = 〈ψf,s k (N − 1)|ψk i,R (N − 1)〉 (2.8)<br />

Here |c s | 2 is the probability that removal of electron from orbital φ k of the N<br />

electron ground state leaves the system in the excited state s of the N − 1 electron<br />

system. For strongly correlated systems many of the c s ’s are nonzero. In terms of PE<br />

spectrum this means that for s = k one has the so-called main line and for the other<br />

non-zero c s additional so-called satellite lines occur. If the correlations are weak, then<br />

ψ k f,s(N − 1)≃ψ k i,R(N − 1) (2.9)<br />

meaning that c s 2 ≃ 1 for s = k and c s 2 ≃ 0 for s ≠ k, i.e one has only one peak.<br />

Now the photocurrent I detected in a PE experiment as,<br />

I∝ ∑ |〈φ f,Ekin |r|φ i,k 〉| 2∑<br />

f,i,k<br />

s<br />

|c s | 2 δ(E f,kin + E s (N − 1) − E 0 (N) − hν, (2.10)<br />

where E 0 (N) is the ground state energy of the N-electron system. The photo<br />

current thus consists of the lines created by photoionizing the various orbitals k where<br />

each line can be accompanied by satellites according to the number of excited states<br />

s created in the photoexcitation of that particular orbital k.<br />

The above discussion is very convenient for atoms and molecules [4]. However,<br />

it is not always easy to apply for solids. For solids, a slightly different formalism<br />

has been developed [3, 8, 9] and hence the above equation can be rewritten in the<br />

following form<br />

I∝ ∑ f,i,k|〈φ f,Ekin |r|φ i,k 〉| 2 A(k, E) (2.11)<br />

where A(k, E) is the so-called spectral function for the wave number k and energy<br />

E. The spectral function can be related to the single particle Green’s function by

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