Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering Studies of Elementary Excitations
By L. Ament, Michel Van Veenendaal, T. Devereaux, John P. Hill, J. van den Brink. 2010
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In the past decade, resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) has made remarkable progress as a spectroscopic technique. This is a direct result of the availability of high-brilliance synchrotron x-ray radiation sources and of advanced photon detection instrumentation. The technique's unique capability to probe elementary excitations in complex materials by measuring their energy, momentum, and polarization dependence has brought RIXS to the forefront of experimental photon science. Both the experimental and theoretical RIXS investigations of the past decade are reviewed, focusing on those determining the low-energy charge, spin, orbital, and lattice excitations of solids. The fundamentals of RIXS as an experimental method are presented and then the theoretical state of affairs, its recent developments, and the different (approximate) methods to compute the dynamical RIXS response are reviewed. The last decade's body of experimental RIXS data and its interpretation is surveyed, with an emphasis on RIXS studies of correlated electron systems, especially transition-metal compounds. Finally, the promise that RIXS holds for the near future is discussed, particularly in view of the advent of x-ray laser photon sources.
Subfields: Geophysics, Materials Chemistry, Radiation
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- One-dimensional quantum liquids: Beyond the Luttinger liquid paradigm (2011, background): “…us also mention that although we focus on the spin structure factors, a similar phenomenology can also be used to find other correlation functions, e.g., the spin-exchange structure factor (Klauser et al., 2011) which determines the rate of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (Ament et al., 2011).”
- Solids, liquids, and gases under high pressure (2018, background): “Phys., Vol. 90, No. 1, January–March 2018 015007-13 detailed description of how x rays interact with matter and the IXS and XAS techniques can be found in the reviews by Schülke (2007), Rueff and Shukla (2010), Ament et al. (2011), and van Veenendaal (2015).”
- Colloquium: Spontaneous magnon decays (2012, background): “Another promising experimental technique is resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (Ament et al., 2011), which is able to 25 detect excitation broadening in large-exchange spin systems.”