Magnetic exciton of EuS revealed by resonant inelastic X-Ray scattering

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.046401" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.046401</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.046401" target="_blank" >10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.046401</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Magnetic exciton of EuS revealed by resonant inelastic X-Ray scattering

Original language description

We report the valence-to-core resonant inelastic x-ray scattering of EuS measured at the L3 edge of Eu. The obtained data reveal two sets of excitations: one set is composed of a hole in the S 3p bands and an electron excited to extended Eu 5d band states, and the other is made up from a hole in the Eu 4f states and an electron in localized Eu 5d states bound to the 4f hole by its Coulomb potential. The delocalized excitations arise from the dipole-allowed 5⁢d→2⁢p emissions, whereas the localized excitations result from the dipole-forbidden (quadrupole-allowed) 4⁢f→2⁢p emissions. Both these emission channels have a comparable intensity thanks to a small number of occupied 5d states (≈0.6) combined with a large number of occupied 4f states (seven). We identify the localized electron-hole pairs with the “magnetic excitons” suggested in the past as an interpretation of the sharp features seen in the optical absorption spectra. Our observations provide a direct experimental evidence of these excitons, which has been missing up to now.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10302 - Condensed matter physics (including formerly solid state physics, supercond.)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA21-09766S" target="_blank" >GA21-09766S: Magnetism and electronic structure of actinides tuned by ionicity</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Physical Review Letters

ISSN

0031-9007

e-ISSN

1079-7114

Volume of the periodical

134

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

046401

UT code for WoS article

001438203200006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85216301946