Orbital superexchange and crystal field simultaneously at play in YVO3: resonant inelastic x-ray scattering at the V L edge and the O K edge
| Autor: | Benckiser, E., Fels, L., Ghiringhelli, G., Sala, M. Moretti, Schmitt, T., Schlappa, J., Strocov, V. N., Mufti, N., Blake, G. R., Nugroho, A. A., Palstra, T. T. M., Haverkort, M. W., Wohlfeld, K., Grüninger, M. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Phys. Rev. B 88, 205115 (2013) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.205115 |
| Popis: | We report on the observation of orbital excitations in YVO3 by means of resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at energies across the vanadium L3 and oxygen K absorption edges. Due to the excellent experimental resolution we are able to resolve the intra-t2g excitations at 0.1-0.2 eV, 1.07 eV, and 1.28 eV, the lowest excitations from the t2g into the eg levels at 1.86 eV, and further excitations above 2.2 eV. For the intra-t2g excitations at 0.1-0.2 eV, the RIXS peaks show small shifts of the order of 10-40 meV as a function of temperature and of about 13-20 meV as a function of the transferred momentum q||a. We argue that the latter reflects a finite dispersion of the orbital excitations. For incident energies tuned to the oxygen K edge, RIXS is more sensitive to intersite excitations. We observe excitations across the Mott-Hubbard gap and find an additional feature at 0.4 eV which we attribute to two-orbiton scattering, i.e., an exchange of orbitals between adjacent sites. Altogether, these results indicate that both superexchange interactions and the coupling to the lattice are important for a quantitative understanding of the orbital excitations in YVO3. Comment: 14 pages, 10 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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