Effect of broken symmetry on resonant inelastic x-ray scattering from undoped cuprates
| Autor: | Igarashi, Jun-ichi, Nagao, Tatsuya |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | J. Phys.:Condens. Matter, vol. 27, 186002 (2015) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1088/0953-8984/27/18/186002 |
| Popis: | We study the magnetic excitation spectra of resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at the $L$-edge from undoped cuprates beyond the fast collision approximation. We analyse the effect of the symmetry breaking ground state on the RIXS process of the Heisenberg model by using a projection procedure. We derive the expressions of the scattering amplitude in both one-magnon and two-magnon excitation channels. Each of them consists of the isotropic and anisotropic contributions. The latter is a new finding and attributed to the long range order of the ground state. The presence of anisotropic terms is supported by numerical calculations on a two-dimensional spin cluster. We express the RIXS spectra in the form of spin-correlation functions with the coefficients evaluated on the cluster, and calculate the function in a two dimensional system within the $1/S$ expansion. Due to the anisotropic terms, the spectral intensities are considerably enhanced around momentum transfer $\textbf{q}=0$ in both one-magnon and two-magnon excitation channels. This finding may be experimentally confirmed by examining carefully the $\textbf{q}$-dependence of the spectra. Comment: Latex, 13 pages, 9 figures, to be published in Journal of Physics:Condensed Matter |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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