Two-apinon and orbital excitations of the spin-Peierls system TiOCl

We combine high-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering with cluster calculations utilizing a recently derived effective magnetic scattering operator to analyze the polarization, excitation energy, and momentum dependent excitation spectrum of the low-dimensional quantum magnet TiOCl in the r...

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Main Authors: Glawion, Sebastian (Author) , Haverkort, Maurits W. (Author)
Format: Article (Journal) Chapter/Article
Language:English
Published: 2011
In: Arxiv

Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5800
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Author Notes:S. Glawion, J. Heidler, M.W. Haverkort, L.C. Duda, T. Schmitt, V.N. Strocov, C. Monney, K. Zhou, A. Ruff, M. Sing, and R. Claessen
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Summary:We combine high-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering with cluster calculations utilizing a recently derived effective magnetic scattering operator to analyze the polarization, excitation energy, and momentum dependent excitation spectrum of the low-dimensional quantum magnet TiOCl in the range expected for orbital and magnetic excitations (0 - 2.5 eV). Ti 3d orbital excitations yield complete information on the temperature-dependent crystal-field splitting. In the spin-Peierls phase we observe a dispersive two-spinon excitation and estimate the inter- and intra-dimer magnetic exchange coupling from a comparison to cluster calculations.
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