TY - JOUR
KW - Perovskite
KW - Heavy metals
KW - Iridium compounds
KW - Strontium compounds
KW - X-ray scattering
KW - Transition metals
KW - Spin-orbit couplings
KW - Iridates
KW - X-rays
KW - Heavy metal elements
KW - Magnon excitations
KW - Oxygen K-edge
KW - Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
KW - RIXS
KW - Transition metal elements
AU - Xu Liu
AU - M.P.M Dean
AU - J F Liu
AU - S.G Chiuzbəian
AU - N Jaouen
AU - A Nicolaou
AU - W.G Yin
AU - C.R Serrao
AU - Ramamoorthy Ramesh
AU - H Ding
AU - J.P Hill
AB - 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.
BT - Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
DO - 10.1088/0953-8984/27/20/202202
LA - eng
M1 - 20
N1 - cited By 9
N2 - 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.
PB - Institute of Physics Publishing
PY - 2015
T2 - Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
TI - Probing single magnon excitations in Sr2IrO4 using O K-edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
VL - 27
SN - 09538984
ER -