A critical re-examination of resonant soft x-ray Bragg forbidden reflections in magnetite

Details A critical re-examination of resonant soft x-ray Bragg forbidden reflections in magnetite A critical re-examination of resonant soft x-ray Bragg forbidden reflections in magnetite

2008-11-20

arxiv.org/abs/0811.3350v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

5 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

Magnetite, Fe$_3$O$_4$, displays a highly complex low temperature crystal structure that may be charge and orbitally ordered. Many of the recent experimental claims of such ordering rely on resonant soft x-ray diffraction at the oxygen K and iron L edges. We have re-examined this system and undertaken soft x-ray diffraction experiments on a high-quality single crystal. Contrary to previous claims in the literature, we show that the intensity observed at the Bragg forbidden (001/2)$_c$ reflection can be explained purely in terms of the low-temperature structural displacements around the resonant atoms. This does not necessarily mean that magnetite is not charge or orbitally ordered, but rather that the present sensitivity of resonant soft x-ray experiments does not allow conclusive demonstration of such ordering.

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