Orbital excitations in CMR progenitor of LaMnO3 studied by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

Details Orbital excitations in CMR progenitor of LaMnO3 studied by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering Orbital excitations in CMR progenitor of LaMnO3 studied by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

2001-09-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0109509v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 4figures

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We report resonant inelastic x-ray scattering experiments of the orbital ordered manganite LaMnO3. When the incident photon energy is tuned near the Mn K absorption edge, the spectra reveal three features at 2.5 eV, 8 eV and 11 eV. The 8 eV and 11 eV peaks are considered charge-transfer type excitations. On the other hand, theoretical calculations identify the 2.5 eV peak as an orbital excitation across the Mott gap, i.e. an electron excitation from the lower Hubbard band with the d3x2-r2 and d3y2-r2 orbital characters to the upper Hubbard band with the dy2-z2 and dz2-x2 ones. The observed weak dispersion and characteristic azimuthal angle dependence of this new type of excitations are well reproduced by the theory which includes orbital degeneracy and strong electron correlation.

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