Publications (62)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 (…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 (…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…