@article{33401, keywords = {Perovskite, Heavy metals, Iridium compounds, Strontium compounds, X ray scattering, Transition metals, Spin-orbit couplings, iridates, X rays, Heavy metal elements, Magnon excitations, Oxygen K-edge, Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, RIXS, Transition metal elements}, author = {X Liu and M.P.M Dean and J F Liu and S.G Chiuzbəian and N Jaouen and A Nicolaou and W.G Yin and C.R Serrao and Ramamoorthy Ramesh and H Ding and J.P Hill}, title = {Probing single magnon excitations in Sr2IrO4 using O K-edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering}, abstract = {Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at the L-edge of transition metal elements is now commonly used to probe single magnon excitations. Here we show that single magnon excitations can also be measured with RIXS at the K-edge of the surrounding ligand atoms when the center heavy metal elements have strong spin-orbit coupling. This is demonstrated with oxygen K-edge RIXS experiments on the perovskite Sr2IrO4, where low energy peaks from single magnon excitations were observed. This new application of RIXS has excellent potential to be applied to a wide range of magnetic systems based on heavy elements, for which the L-edge RIXS energy resolution in the hard x-ray region is usually poor. © 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd.}, year = {2015}, journal = {Journal of Physics Condensed Matter}, volume = {27}, number = {20}, publisher = {Institute of Physics Publishing}, issn = {09538984}, doi = {10.1088/0953-8984/27/20/202202}, note = {cited By 9}, language = {eng}, }