Charge Dynamics in Low Dimensional Prototype Correlated Systems: A View with High-Energy X-rays
Description/Abstract
The electronic structure of Mott systems continues to be an unsolved problem in physics despite more than half-century of intense research efforts. Well-developed momentum-resolved spectroscopies such as photoemission and neutron scattering cannot directly address problems associated with the full Mott gap as angle-resolved photoemission probes the occupied states and neutrons do not couple to the electron's charge directly. Our observation of dispersive particle- hole pair excitations across the charge gap (effective Mott gap) in several low dimensional prototype Mott insulators using high resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering suggests that the excitations across the gap are highly anisotropic and momentum dependent. The results indirectly provide some information about the momentum dependence of unoccupied states in these correlated systems. The x-ray scattering results are complementary to the electron scattering results by the possibility of studying the excitations in the high momentum transfer regimes (near the zone boundaries and comers). This is also demonstrated in case of studying plasmons near the wave vector regime where Landau damping starts to dominate. X-ray scattering also allows one to probe the symmetry characters of localized electrons and the excitations through the strong polarization dependence of scattering near a core resonance. The study of charge-orbital localization is demonstrated in case of manganese oxides. Given its deeply bulk-sensitive and weak-coupling nature and the ability to probe dispersive behavior of charge fluctuations over several Brillouin zones, inelastic x-ray scattering shows the promise to become an important experimental tool to study the electronic structure of complex quantum systems.
| DOI | 10.2172/799074 |
|---|---|
| Creator/Author: | Hasan, Md-Zahid |
| Publication Date: | 2002 Mar 20 |
| OSTI Identifier: | OSTI ID: 799074 |
| Report Number(s): | SLAC-R-589 |
| DOE Contract Number: | AC03-76SF00515 |
| DOI: | 10.2172/799074 |
| Other Number(s): | TRN: US0204803 |
| Resource Type: | Technical Report |
| Resource Relation: | Other Information: PBD: 20 Mar 2002 |
| Coverage: | Topical |
| Research Org: | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US) |
| Sponsoring Org: | USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US) |
| Subject: | 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; BRILLOUIN ZONES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; LANDAU DAMPING; MANGANESE OXIDES; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; PHOTOEMISSION; PHYSICS; PLASMONS; POLARIZATION; RESONANCE; SCATTERING; SYMMETRY; VECTORS |
| Country of Publication: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Format: | Size: vp. |
| Update Date: | 2008 Feb 05 |
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