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Publications (62)

cond-mat.supr-con2021

Charge and spin order dichotomy in NdNiO driven by SrTiO capping layer

G. Krieger, L. Martinelli, S. Zeng +10

Superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates holds exciting analogies with that of cuprates, with similar structures and -electron count. Using resonant inelastic x-ray scatt…

cond-mat.supr-con2013

Persistence of magnetic excitations in La2-xSrxCuO4 from the undoped insulator to the heavily overdoped non-superconducting metal

M. P. M. Dean, G. Dellea, R. S. Springell +11

One of the most intensely studied scenarios of high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) postulates pairing by exchange of magnetic excitations [1]. Indeed, such excitations have be…

cond-mat.supr-con2011

Intense paramagnon excitations in a large family of high-temperature superconductors

M. Le Tacon, G. Ghiringhelli, J. Chaloupka +17

In the search for the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity, intense research has been focused on the evolution of the spin excitation spectrum upon doping from the antif…

cond-mat.supr-con2018

Dynamical charge density fluctuations pervading the phase diagram of a Cu-based high-Tc superconductor

R. Arpaia, S. Caprara, R. Fumagalli +12

Charge density waves are a common occurrence in all families of high critical temperature superconducting cuprates. Although consistently observed in the underdoped region of the p…

cond-mat.supr-con2019

Formation of Incommensurate Charge Density Waves in Cuprates

H. Miao, R. Fumagalli, M. Rossi +8

Although charge density waves (CDWs) are omnipresent in cuprate high-temperature superconductors, they occur at significantly different wavevectors, confounding efforts to understa…

cond-mat.supr-con2006

A determination of the pairing interaction in the high Tc cuprate superconductor Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 (Tl2212)

W. A. Little, M. J. Holcomb, G. Ghiringhelli +5

We have measured the near-normal reflectance of Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 (Tl2212) for energies from 0.1 to 4.0 eV at room temperature and used a Kramers-Kronig analysis to find the complex, f…

cond-mat.str-el2005

Observation and theoretical description of the pure Fano-effect in the valence-band photo-emission of ferromagnets

J. Minar, H. Ebert, C. De Nadai +6

The pure Fano-effect in angle-integrated valence-band photo-emission of ferromagnets has been observed for the first time. A contribution of the intrinsic spin polarization to the…

cond-mat.str-el2013

Origin of interface magnetism in BiMnO3/SrTiO3 and LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures

M. Salluzzo, S. Gariglio, D. Stornaiuolo +11

Possible ferromagnetism induced in otherwise non-magnetic materials has been motivating intense research in complex oxide heterostructures. Here we show that a confined magnetism i…

cond-mat.supr-con2014

Direct observation of bulk charge modulations in optimally-doped BiPbSrCaCuO

M. Hashimoto, G. Ghiringhelli, W. -S. Lee +12

Bulk charge density modulations, recently observed in high critical-temperature () cuprate superconductors, coexist with the so-called pseudogap and compete with supe…

cond-mat.supr-con2012

High Tc superconductivity in superlattices of insulating oxides

D. Di Castro, M. Salvato, A. Tebano +13

We report the occurrence of superconductivity, with maximum Tc = 40 K, in superlattices (SLs) based on two insulating oxides, namely CaCuO2 and SrTiO3. In these (CaCuO2)n/(SrTiO3)m…

cond-mat.supr-con2023

Signature of quantum criticality in cuprates by charge density fluctuations

R. Arpaia, L. Martinelli, M. Moretti Sala +17

The universality of the strange metal phase in many quantum materials is often attributed to the presence of a quantum critical point (QCP), a zero-temperature phase transition rul…

cond-mat.supr-con2014

Connection between charge-density-wave order and charge transport in the cuprate superconductors

W. Tabis, Y. Li, M. Le Tacon +17

Charge-density-wave (CDW) correlations within the quintessential CuO planes have been argued to either cause [1] or compete with [2] the superconductivity in the cuprates, and…

cond-mat.supr-con2012

Bimagnon studies in cuprates with Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering at the O K edge. II - The doping effect in La2-xSrxCuO4

V. Bisogni, M. Moretti Sala, A. Bendounan +3

We present RIXS data at O K edge from La2-xSrxCuO4 vs. doping between x=0.10 and x=0.22 with attention to the magnetic excitations in the Mid-Infrared region. The sampling done by…

cond-mat.str-el2002

Exchange Splitting and Charge Carrier Spin Polarization in EuO

P. G. Steeneken, L. H. Tjeng, I. Elfimov +4

High quality thin films of the ferromagnetic semiconductor EuO have been prepared and were studied using a new form of spin-resolved spectroscopy. We observed large changes in the…

cond-mat.supr-con2018

Three dimensional collective charge excitations in electron-doped cuprate superconductors

M. Hepting, L. Chaix, E. W. Huang +17

High temperature cuprate superconductors consist of stacked CuO2 planes, with primarily two dimensional electronic band structures and magnetic excitations, while superconducting c…

cond-mat.str-el2008

Indirect electric field doping of the CuO2 planes of the cuprate NdBa2Cu3O7 superconductor

M. Salluzzo, G. Ghiringhelli, J. C. Cezar +4

The mechanism of field-effect doping in the "123" high critical temperature superconductors (HTS) has been investigated by x-ray absorption spectroscopy in the presence of an elect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

Inelastic X-ray scattering from valence electrons near absorption edges of FeTe and TiSe

B. Barbiellini, J. N. Hancock, C. Monney +4

We study resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) peaks corresponding to low energy particle-hole excited states of metallic FeTe and semi-metallic TiSe for photon incident e…

cond-mat.str-el2013

Orbital superexchange and crystal field simultaneously at play in YVO3: resonant inelastic x-ray scattering at the V L edge and the O K edge

E. Benckiser, L. Fels, G. Ghiringhelli +11

We report on the observation of orbital excitations in YVO3 by means of resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at energies across the vanadium L3 and oxygen K absorption edges.…

physics.ins-det2013

IRIDE White Book, An Interdisciplinary Research Infrastructure based on Dual Electron linacs&lasers

D. Alesini, M. Alessandroni, M. P. Anania +211

This report describes the scientific aims and potentials as well as the preliminary technical design of IRIDE, an innovative tool for multi-disciplinary investigations in a wide fi…

cond-mat.supr-con2009

Evidence for Dynamic Phase Separation and High Energy Spin Dynamics in underdoped LaSrCuO from Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

L. Braicovich, J. van den Brink, V. Bisogni +7

We probe the collective magnetic modes of LaCuO (LCO) and underdoped LaSrCuO (LSCO) by momentum resolved Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) at the C…

cond-mat.supr-con2015

High-energy magnetic excitations in overdoped LaSrCuO studied by neutron and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering

S. Wakimoto, K. Ishii, H. Kimura +7

We have performed neutron inelastic scattering and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at the Cu- edge to study high-energy magnetic excitations at energy transfers of…

cond-mat.str-el2009

Evolution of magnetic phases and orbital occupation in (SrMnO3)n/(LaMnO3)2n superlattices

C. Aruta, C. Adamo, A. Galdi +11

The magnetic and electronic modifications induced at the interfaces in (SrMnO)/(LaMnO) superlattices have been investigated by linear and circular magnetic…

cond-mat.str-el2009

Momentum dependence of orbital excitations in Mott-insulating titanates

C. Ulrich, L. J. P. Ament, G. Ghiringhelli +9

High-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering has been used to determine the momentum dependence of orbital excitations in Mott-insulating LaTiO and YTiO over a wide…

cond-mat.str-el2004

Determination of the orbital moment and crystal field splitting in LaTiO

M. W. Haverkort, Z. Hu, A. Tanaka +18

Utilizing a sum-rule in a spin-resolved photoelectron spectroscopic experiment with circularly polarized light, we show that the orbital moment in LaTiO is strongly reduced bot…

cond-mat.supr-con2016

Direct observation of charge order in underdoped and optimally doped Bi(Sr,La)CuO by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

Y. Y. Peng, M. Salluzzo, X. Sun +10

Charge order in underdoped and optimally doped high- superconductors BiSrLaCuO (Bi2201) is investigated by Cu edge resonant inelastic…

cond-mat.str-el2011

BaVS probed by V L edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy

V. Ilakovac, N. B. Brookes, J. Criginski Cezar +10

Polarization dependent vanadium L edge X-ray absorption spectra of BaVS single crystals are measured in the four phases of the compound. The difference between signals with the…

cond-mat.supr-con2012

Distinct Charge Orders in the Planes and Chains of Ortho-III-Ordered YBaCuO Superconductors Identified by Resonant Elastic X-ray Scattering

A. J. Achkar, R. Sutarto, X. Mao +15

Recently, charge density wave (CDW) order in the CuO planes of underdoped YBaCuO was detected using resonant soft x-ray scattering. An important question remai…

cond-mat.supr-con2021

Restored strange metal phase through suppression of charge density waves in underdoped YBaCuO

E. Wahlberg, R. Arpaia, G. Seibold +10

The normal state of optimally doped cuprates is dominated by the "strange metal" phase that shows a linear temperature () dependence of the resistivity persisting down to the lo…

cond-mat.str-el2008

Evidence of orbital reconstruction at interfaces in La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 films

A Tebano, C. Aruta, S. Sanna +8

Electronic properties of transition metal oxides at interfaces are influenced by strain, electric polarization and oxygen diffusion. Linear dichroism (LD) x-ray absorption, diffrac…

cond-mat.str-el2009

Collective spin excitations in a quantum spin ladder probed by high-resolution Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering

J. Schlappa, T. Schmitt, F. Vernay +13

We investigate magnetic excitations in the spin-ladder compound SrCuO using high-resolution Cu -edge Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS). Our findi…

cond-mat.str-el2009

Orbital occupation, atomic moments and magnetic ordering at interfaces of manganite thin films

C. Aruta, G. Ghiringhelli, V. Bisogni +4

We have performed x-ray linear and circular magnetic dichroism experiments at the Mn L2,3-edge of the La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 ultra thin films. Our measurements show that the antiferromagne…

cond-mat.str-el2024

The origin of magnetism in a supposedly nonmagnetic osmium oxide

S. Agrestini, F. Borgatti, P. Florio +16

A supposedly nonmagnetic 5d double perosvkite oxide is investigated by a combination of spectroscopic and theoretical methods, namely resonant inelastic X-ray scattering, X-ray…

cond-mat.str-el2018

High-resolution resonant inelastic soft X-ray scattering as a probe of the crystal electrical field in lanthanides demonstrated for the case of CeRh2Si2

A. Amorese, N. Caroca-Canales, S. Seiro +6

The magnetic properties of rare earth compounds are usually well captured by assuming a fully localized f shell and only considering the Hund's rule ground state multiplet split by…

cond-mat.supr-con2017

Crossover from Collective to Incoherent Spin Excitations in Superconducting Cuprates Probed by Detuned Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering

M. Minola, Y. Lu, Y. Y. Peng +22

Spin excitations in the overdoped high temperature superconductors TlBaCuO and (Bi,Pb)(Sr,La)CuO were investigated by resonant inelastic x-ray s…

cond-mat.str-el2008

Dispersing bimagnons and doping induced bimagnon-charge modes in superconducting cuprates

L. Braicovich, L. J. P. Ament, V. Bisogni +11

In the early days of high temperature superconductivity it was already recognized that magnetic properties of these materials are intimately related to the superconducting ones . W…

cond-mat.str-el2016

Directly characterizing the relative strength and momentum dependence of electron-phonon coupling using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

T. P. Devereaux, A. M. Shvaika, K. Wu +9

The coupling between lattice and charge degrees of freedom in condensed matter materials is ubiquitous and can often result in interesting properties and ordered phases, including…

cond-mat.str-el2013

Dispersive spin excitations in highly overdoped cuprates revealed by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

M. Le Tacon, M. Minola, D. C. Peets +11

Using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at the Cu -absorption edge, we have observed intense, dispersive spin excitations in highly overdoped TlBaCuO (…

cond-mat.str-el2010

Measurement of magnetic excitations in the two-dimensional antiferromagnetic Sr2CuO2Cl2 insulator using resonant x-ray scattering:Evidence for extended interactions

M. Guarise, B. Dalla Piazza, M. Moretti Sala +13

Using high-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS), we performed a momentum-resolved study of magnetic excitations in the model spin-1/2 2D antiferromagnetic insulato…

cond-mat.str-el2010

Multiple double-exchange mechanism by Mn-doping in manganite compounds

P. Orgiani, A. Galdi, C. Aruta +9

Double-exchange mechanisms in REAEMnO manganites (where RE is a trivalent rare-earth ion and AE is a divalent alkali-earth ion) relies on the strong exchange in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008

Orbital reconstruction and two-dimensional electron gas at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface

M. Salluzzo, G. Ghiringhelli, J. C. Cezar +9

Conventional two-dimensional electron gases are realized by engineering the interfaces between semiconducting compounds. In 2004, Ohtomo and Hwang discovered that an electron gas c…

cond-mat.supr-con2010

Energy and symmetry of excitations in undoped layered cuprates measured by Cu resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

M. Moretti Sala, V. Bisogni, C. Aruta +17

We measured high resolution Cu edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) of the undoped cuprates LaCuO, SrCuOCl, CaCuO and NdBaCuO.…

cond-mat.supr-con2015

Collective nature of spin excitations in superconducting cuprates probed by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

M. Minola, G. Dellea, H. Gretarsson +13

We used resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) with and without analysis of the scattered photon polarization, to study dispersive spin excitations in the high temperature supe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Symmetry breaking at the (111) interfaces of SrTiO hosting a 2D-electron system

G. M. De Luca, R. Di Capua, E. Di Gennaro +7

We used x-ray absorption spectroscopy to study the orbital symmetry and the energy band splitting of (111) LaAlO/SrTiO and LaAlO/EuTiO/SrTiO heterostr…

cond-mat.supr-con2014

High-energy spin and charge excitations in electron-doped copper oxide superconductors

K. Ishii, M. Fujita, T. Sasaki +15

The evolution of electronic (spin and charge) excitations upon carrier doping is an extremely important issue in superconducting layered cuprates and the knowledge of its asymmetry…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Orbital selective switching of ferromagnetism in an oxide quasi two-dimensional electron gas

R. Di Capua, M. Verma, M. Radovic +16

Multi-orbital physics in quasi-two-dimensional electron gases (q2DEGs) triggers unique phenomena not observed in bulk materials, such as unconventional superconductivity and magnet…

cond-mat.supr-con2017

Re-entrant charge order in overdoped (Bi,Pb)SrCuO outside the pseudogap regime

Y. Y. Peng, R. Fumagalli, Y. Ding +15

Charge modulations are considered as a leading competitor of high-temperature superconductivity in the underdoped cuprates, and their relationship to Fermi surface reconstructions…

cond-mat.supr-con2013

Giant phonon anomalies and central peak due to charge density wave formation in YBaCuO

M. Le Tacon, A. Bosak, S. M. Souliou +7

The electron-phonon interaction is a major factor influencing the competition between collective instabilities in correlated-electron materials, but its role in driving high-temper…

cond-mat.str-el2010

Evidence for core-hole-mediated inelastic x-ray scattering from metallic FeTe

J. N. Hancock, R. Viennois, D. van der Marel +9

We present a detailed analysis of resonant inelastic scattering (RIXS) from FeTe with unprecedented energy resolution. In contrast to the sharp peaks typically seen in in…

cond-mat.supr-con2013

Magnetic excitations in stripe-ordered LaBaCuO studied using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

M. P. M. Dean, G. Dellea, M. Minola +10

The charge and spin correlations in LaBaCuO (LBCO 1/8) are studied using Cu edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS). The static charge order (…

cond-mat.supr-con2017

High-temperature charge density wave correlations in LaBaCuO without spin-charge locking

H. Miao, J. Lorenzana, G. Seibold +11

Although all superconducting cuprates display charge-ordering tendencies, their low-temperature properties are distinct, impeding efforts to understand the phenomena within a singl…

cond-mat.supr-con2016

Influence of apical oxygen on the extent of in-plane exchange interaction in cuprate superconductors

Y. Y. Peng, G. Dellea, M. Minola +14

In high Tc superconductors the magnetic and electronic properties are determined by the probability that valence electrons virtually jump from site to site in the CuO2 planes, a me…

cond-mat.supr-con2015

Magnetic excitations and phonons simultaneously studied by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering in optimally doped BiPbSrLaCuO

Y. Y. Peng, M. Hashimoto, M. Moretti Sala +13

Magnetic excitations in the optimally doped high- superconductor BiPbSrLaCuO (OP-Bi2201, K) are inve…

cond-mat.supr-con2013

Momentum-dependent charge correlations in YBaCuO superconductors probed by resonant x-ray scattering: Evidence for three competing phases

S. Blanco-Canosa, A. Frano, T. Loew +10

We have used resonant x-ray scattering to determine the momentum dependent charge correlations in YBaCuO samples with highly ordered chain arrays of oxygen accepto…

cond-mat.str-el2009

Resonant X-rays at the Cu L-edge as a momentum dependent probe of the magnetic excitation spectrum in cuprates

L. J. P. Ament, G. Ghiringhelli, M. Moretti Sala +2

We show that, contrary to common lore, in resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at the copper L- and M-edge direct spin-flip scattering is in principle allowed. We demonstrate…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Signatures of canted antiferromagnetism in infinite-layer nickelates studied by x-ray magnetic dichroism

G. Krieger, H. Sahib, F. Rosa +10

We report an experimental study of the magnetic properties of infinite-layer Nd1-xSrxNiO2 thin films by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) at Ni L3,2 and Nd M5,4 edges. We sh…

cond-mat.str-el2012

Long-range incommensurate charge fluctuations in (Y,Nd)Ba2Cu3O(6+x)

G. Ghiringhelli, M. Le Tacon, M. Minola +17

There are increasing indications that superconductivity competes with other orders in cuprate superconductors, but obtaining direct evidence with bulk-sensitive probes is challengi…

cond-mat.supr-con2012

Bimagnon studies in cuprates with Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering at the O K edge. I - An assessment on La2CuO4 and a comparison with the excitation at Cu L3 and Cu K edges

V. Bisogni, L. Simonelli, L. J. P. Ament +8

We assess the capabilities of magnetic Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) at the O edge in undoped cuprates by taking La_{2}CuO_{4} as a benchmark case, based on a seri…

cond-mat.str-el2020

Evolution of spin excitations from bulk to monolayer FeSe

J. Pelliciari, S. Karakuzu, Q. Song +17

The discovery of enhanced superconductivity (SC) in FeSe films grown on SrTiO3 (FeSe/STO) has revitalized the field of Fe-based superconductors. In the ultrathin limit, the superco…

cond-mat.supr-con2019

Polarization resolved Cu -edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering of orbital and spin excitations in NdBaCuO

R. Fumagalli, L. Braicovich, M. Minola +14

High resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) has proven particularly effective in the determination of crystal field and spin excitations in cuprates. Its strength li…

physics.ins-det2014

The simultaneous measurement of energy and linear polarization of the scattered radiation in resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering

L. Braicovich, M. Minola, G. Dellea +8

Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) in the soft x-ray range is an element-specific energy-loss spectroscopy used to probe the electronic and magnetic excitations in strongly…

cond-mat.supr-con2018

Dispersion, damping, and intensity of spin excitations in the single-layer (Bi,Pb)(Sr,La)CuO cuprate superconductor family

Y. Y. Peng, E. W. Huang, R. Fumagalli +11

Using Cu- edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) we measured the dispersion and damping of spin excitations (magnons and paramagnons) in the high- super…

cond-mat.supr-con2021

Strange metal behaviour from charge density fluctuations in cuprates

G. Seibold, R. Arpaia, Y. Y. Peng +6

Besides the mechanism responsible for high critical temperature superconductivity, the grand unresolved issue of the cuprates is the occurrence of a strange metallic state above th…