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A class of sum rules for inelastic light scattering is developed. We show that the first moment of the non-resonant response provides information about the potential energy in strongly correlated systems. The polarization dependence of the…
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The physical properties of crystals are governed by their symmetry according to Neumann's principle. However, we present a case that contradicts this principle wherein the polarization is not invariant under its symmetry. We term this…
Polarization dependence has historically seen extensive use in x-ray spectroscopy to determine magnetic and local geometric properties, but more broadly as a way to gain extra sensitivity to electronic structure at the level of individual…
In this work, the transition matrix elements for inelastic electron--electron scattering are investigated. The angular part is given by spherical harmonics. For the weighted radial wave function overlap, analytic expressions are derived in…
According to the Onsager principle a matrix of kinetic coefficients is symmetric in a system not violating time inversion symmetry. The antisymmetry is possible in systems with broken time inversion symmetry f.i. in systems in external…
We theoretically investigate the origin of the resonant x-ray scattering (RXS) signal near the Ce $L_{III}$ absorption edge in the quadrupolar ordering phase of CeB$_6$, considering the intersite interaction between the $\Gamma_8$ states in…
We have performed a resonant x-ray scattering (RXS) study near the Co K edge on a single crystal of Ca3Co2O6. In the magnetically ordered phase a new class of weak reflections appears at the magnetic propagation vector tau (1/3,1/3,1/3).…
Raman spectroscopy stands as a cornerstone technique for probing collective excitations and emergent quantum phases in solids. While polarization-resolved Raman scattering has been widely used to extract symmetry information of eigenmodes,…
We study the polarization-dependent electronic Raman response of untwinned YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-\delta}$ superconductors employing a tight-binding band structure with anisotropic hopping matrix parameters and a superconducting gap with a…
We provide a semiquantitative explanation of a recent experiment on the resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) in insulating cuprate La2CuO4 (Y.J. Kim et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 177003 (2002).). We show theoretically that there are…
We investigate the scattering of light by a nonlinear, anisotropic slab under conical incidence and arbitrary polarization, within the framework of Maxwell's equations, where the nonlinearities are described by nonlinear susceptibility…
We calculate the resonant x-ray scattering (RXS) spectra near the Ce $L_{\rm III}$ absorption edge in CeB$_6$, on the basis of a microscopic model that the $4f$ states of Ce are atomic while the $5d$ states form an energy band with a…
Nuclear inelastic scattering of synchrotron radiation has been used now since 10 years as a tool for vibrational spectroscopy. This method has turned out especially useful in case of large molecules that contain a M\"ossbauer active metal…
Recently, Cohen and Glashow pointed out that all known experimental tests of relativistic kinematics are consistent with invariance of physics under the four-parameter subgroup Sim(2) of the Lorentz group. The massive one-particle…