Electron emission from plasmonically induced Floquet bands at metal surfaces

TL;DR

This paper investigates the formation of plasmonically induced Floquet electronic bands at metal surfaces and their role in enabling non-Einsteinian electron emission under strong electromagnetic fields.

Contribution

It introduces a theoretical framework for understanding plasmonically generated Floquet bands and their impact on electron emission from metal surfaces.

Findings

Resonant behavior of electron emission related to plasmonic states

Scaling laws for emission yield with surface and plasmon parameters

Potential for calibrating surface Floquet bands via photoelectron spectra

Abstract

We explore the possibility of existence of plasmonically generated electronic Floquet bands at metal surfaces by studying the gauge transformed electron-surface plasmon interaction in the prepumped plasmonic coherent state environment. These bands may promote non-Einsteinian electron emission from metal surfaces exposed to primary interactions with strong electromagnetic fields. Resonant behaviour and scaling of emission yield with the parent electronic structure and plasmonic state parameters are estimated for Ag(111) surface. Relative yield intensities from non-Einsteinian emission channels in photoelectron spectra offer the means to calibrate the mediating plasmonic fields and therefrom ensuing surface Floquet bands.