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Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering on Spin-Orbit Coupled Insulating Iridates
Published 28 Aug 2010 in cond-mat.str-el and cond-mat.mtrl-sci | (1008.4862v1)
Abstract: We determine how the elementary excitations of iridium-oxide materials, which are dominated by a strong relativistic spin-orbit coupling, appear in Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS). Whereas the RIXS spectral weight at the L2 x-ray edge vanishes, we find it to be strong at the L3-edge. Applying this to Sr2IrO4, we observe that RIXS, besides being sensitive to local doublet to quartet transitions, meticulously maps out the strongly dispersive delocalized excitations of the low-lying spin-orbit doublets.
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