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Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) is a spectroscopic technique which has been widely used to study various elementary excitations in correlated and other condensed matter systems. For strongly correlated materials, besides boosting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-27 C. J. Jia , C. -C. Chen , A. P. Sorini , B. Moritz , T. P. Devereaux

Continued improvement of the energy resolution of resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) spectrometers is crucial for fulfilling the potential of this technique in the study of electron dynamics in materials of fundamental and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-09-11 Jungho Kim , D. Casa , Ayman Said , Richard Krakora , B. J. Kim , Elina Kasman , Xianrong Huang , T. Gog

Although orbital degrees of freedom are a factor of fundamental importance in strongly correlated transition metal compounds, orbital correlations and dynamics remain very difficult to access, in particular by neutron scattering. Via a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 Pasquale Marra , Krzysztof Wohlfeld , Jeroen van den Brink

An emerging application of resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) is the study of lattice excitations and electron-phonon ($e$-ph) interactions in quantum materials. Despite the growing importance of this area of research, the community…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-30 Jinu Thomas , Debshikha Banerjee , Alberto Nocera , Steven Johnston

I present a tractable theory for the Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) spectral function of magnons. The low-energy transition operator is written as a product of local spin operators times fundamental x-ray absorption spectra.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-05 M. W. Haverkort

We investigate resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at the O $K$-edge in insulating cuprates by means of three methods: cluster perturbation theory (CPT), Hartree--Fock approximation (HFA) and exact diagonalization (ED) method. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-22 Yukihiro Matsubayashi , Sumio Ishihara

Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS), which probes the occupied and unoccupied electronic subspaces in an interrelated fashion, is one of the most detailed, complex and information-rich experimental techniques employed in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-16 Subhayan Roychoudhury , David Prendergast

The interaction between electron spin and molecular chirality plays a fundamental role in quantum phenomena, with significant implications for spintronics and quantum computing. The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, where…

Cubic chiral magnets, such as Cu$_{2}$OSeO$_{3}$, exhibit a variety of non-collinear spin textures, including a trigonal lattice of spin whirls, so-called skyrmions. Using magnetic resonant elastic x-ray scattering (REXS) on a crystalline…

High resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) has proven particularly effective in the determination of crystal field and spin excitations in cuprates. Its strength lies in the large Cu $L_{3}$ resonance and in the fact that…

Chirality is a fundamental symmetry concept describing discrete states, i.e., left-handed, right-handed, or achiral, and existing at disparate scales and in many categories of scientific fields. Even though symmetry breaking is…

Understanding quantum materials -- solids in which quantum-mechanical interactions among constituent electrons yield a great variety of novel emergent phenomena -- is a forefront challenge in modern condensed matter physics. This goal has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-13 M. Mitrano , S. Johnston , Young-June Kim , M. P. M. Dean

We report resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) excited by circularly polarized x-rays on Mn-Zn ferrite at the Mn L2,3-resonances. We demonstrate that crystal field excitations, as expected for localized systems, dominate the RIXS…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-04 M. Magnuson , L. -C. Duda , S. M. Butorin , P. Kuiper , J. Nordgren

We develop a phenomenological theory to predict the characteristic features of the momentum-dependent scattering amplitude in resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at the energy scale of the superconducting gap in iron-based…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-10 Pasquale Marra , Jeroen van den Brink , Steffen Sykora

We investigate electron vortex beams elastically scattered on chiral crystals. After deriving a general expression for the scattering amplitude of a vortex electron, we study its diffraction on point scatterers arranged on a helix. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-04-01 Roeland Juchtmans , Armand Béché , Artem Abakumov , Maria Batuk , Jo Verbeeck

We calculate the K-edge indirect bimagnon resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) intensity spectra of the bicollinear antiferromagnetic order known to occur in the $\alpha$-FeTe chalcogenide system. Utilizing linear spin wave theory for…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-28 Zengye Huang , Sean Mongan , Trinanjan Datta , Dao-Xin Yao

We develop a formalism to study the Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) response in metals based on the diagrammatic expansion for its cross section. The standard approach to the solution of the RIXS problem relies on two key…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-20 A. M. Tsvelik , R. M. Konik , N. V. Prokof'ev , I. S. Tupitsyn

Recent experiments on La$_2$CuO$_4$ suggest that indirect resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) might provide a probe for transversal spin dynamics. We present in detail a systematic expansion of the relevant magnetic RIXS cross…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-22 Filomena Forte , Luuk J. P. Ament , Jeroen van den Brink

We analyze theoretically the resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at the Ni K edge in the stripe-ordered state of La_{2-x}Sr_xNiO_4 at x=1/3. In the calculation of RIXS spectra, the stripe-ordered ground state is described within the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-18 Takuji Nomura , Eiji Kaneshita

Resonant elastic soft x-ray magnetic scattering (XRMS) is a powerful tool to explore long-periodic spin textures in single crystals. However, due to the limited momentum transfer range imposed by long wavelengths of photons in the soft…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-03 V. Ukleev , C. Luo , R. Abrudan , A. Aqeel , C. H. Back , F. Radu