Moretti Sala, M; Boseggia, S; McMorrow, DF; Monaco, G; (2014) Resonant X-Ray Scattering and the Jeff=1/2 Electronic Ground State in Iridate Perovskites. Physical Review Letters , 112 (2) , Article 026403. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.026403.

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Abstract

The resonant x-ray scattering (magnetic elastic, RXMS, and inelastic, RIXS) of Ir4+ at the L2,3 edges relevant to spin-orbit Mott insulators An+1IrnO3n+1 (A=Sr, Ba, etc.) are calculated using a single-ion model which treats the spin-orbit and tetragonal crystal-field terms on an equal footing. Both RXMS and RIXS in the spin-flip channel are found to display a nontrivial dependence on the direction of the magnetic moment, μ. Crucially, we show that for μ in the ab plane, RXMS in the cross-polarized channel at the L2 edge is zero irrespective of the tetragonal crystal field; spin-flip RIXS, relevant to measurements of magnons, behaves reciprocally, being zero at L2 when μ is perpendicular to the ab plane. Our results have important implications for the assignment of a jeff=1/2 ground state on the basis of resonant x-ray experiments.

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