Resonant X-ray scattering investigation of the multipolar ordering in Ca3Co2O6

Details Resonant X-ray scattering investigation of the multipolar ordering in Ca3Co2O6 Resonant X-ray scattering investigation of the multipolar ordering in Ca3Co2O6

2008-09-08

arxiv.org/abs/0809.1357v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B rapid communications

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.78.100406

We have performed a resonant x-ray scattering (RXS) study near the Co K edge on a single crystal of Ca3Co2O6. In the magnetically ordered phase a new class of weak reflections appears at the magnetic propagation vector tau (1/3,1/3,1/3). These new reflections allow direct access to the dipolar-quadrupolar E1E2 scattering channel. The theoretical possibility of observing isolated E1E2 electromagnetic multipoles has attracted a lot of interest in the recent years. Unfortunately in many system of interest, parity even and parity odd tensor contributions occur at the same positions in reciprocal space. We demonstrate that in Ca3Co2O6 it is possible to completely separate the parity even from the parity odd terms. The possibility of observing such terms even in globally centrosymmetric systems using RXS has been investigated theoretically; Ca3Co2O6 allows a symmetry based separation of this contribution.

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