Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering studies of magnons and bimagnons in the lightly doped cuprate La2-xSrxCuO4

Chaix, L.; Huang, E. W.; Gerber, S.; Lu, X.; Jia, C.; Huang, Y.; McNally, D. E.; Wang, Y.; Vernay, F. H.; Keren, A.; Shi, M.; Moritz, B.; Shen, Z. -X.; Schmitt, T.; Devereaux, T. P.; Lee, W. -S.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.97.155144

Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering studies of magnons and bimagnons in the lightly doped cuprate ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

Journal Article · Fri Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.97.155144· OSTI ID:1438550

Chaix, L. ^[1]; Huang, E. W. ^[2]; Gerber, S. ^[3]; Lu, X. ^[4]; Jia, C. ^[2]; Huang, Y. ^[4]; McNally, D. E. ^[4]; Wang, Y. ^[2]; Vernay, F. H. ^[5]; Keren, A. ^[6]; Shi, M. ^[4]; Moritz, B. ^[2]; Shen, Z. -X. ^[7]; Schmitt, T. ^[4]; Devereaux, T. P. ^[7]; Lee, W. -S. ^[2]

SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES); Univ. Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France). Leon Brillouin Lab. (LLB), CEA/CNRS
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)
Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland). SwissFEL and Lab. for Micro and Nanotechnology
Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland). Swiss Light Source
Univ. of Perpignan (France). Lab. of Processes, Materials and Solar Energy, Promes-CNRS
Technion-Israel Inst. of Tech., Haifa (Israel). Dept. of Physics
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES); Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Geballe Lab. for Advanced Materials

Here, we investigated the doping dependence of magnetic excitations in the lightly doped cuprate La_2-xSr_xCuO₄ via combined studies of resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at the Cu L₃ edge and theoretical calculations. With increasing doping, the magnon dispersion is found to be essentially unchanged, but the spectral width broadens and the spectral weight varies differently at different momenta. Near the Brillouin zone center, we directly observe bimagnon excitations that possess the same energy scale and doping dependence as previously observed by Raman spectroscopy. They disperse weakly in energy-momentum space, and they are consistent with a bimagnon dispersion that is renormalized by the magnon-magnon interaction at the zone center.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1438550

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1434196

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 15 Vol. 97; ISSN 2469-9950; ISSN PRBMDO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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