Electronic excitations around the substituted atom in LaCuNO as seen via resonant inelastic X-ray scattering

LaCuNOの共鳴非弾性X線散乱による置換元素周りの電子励起の研究

石井 賢司; 筒井 健二; 池内 和彦*; Jarrige, I.; 水木 純一郎; 平賀 晴弘*; 山田 和芳*; 遠山 貴己*; 前川 禎通; 遠藤 康夫*; 石井 啓文*; Cai, Y. Q.*

Ishii, Kenji; Tsutsui, Kenji; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Jarrige, I.; Mizuki, Junichiro; Hiraka, Haruhiro*; Yamada, Kazuyoshi*; Toyama, Takami*; Maekawa, Sadamichi; Endo, Yasuo*; Ishii, Hirofumi*; Cai, Y. Q.*

We perform a resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) study of Ni-substituted LaCuO and Cu-substituted LaNiO.Resonantly enhanced charge-transfer excitations are successfully observed by tuning the incident photon energy to the -edge of the substituted element. These excitations display a very weak momentum dependence, evidencing their local character. We find a shift in the energy of the onset edge of these features compared with the non-substituted compounds LaCuO and LaNiO. This shift is quantitatively reproduced by exact diagonalization calculations of the RIXS spectra. RIXS is shown to be a powerful tool to probe the electronic states of substituted elements and to understand their interaction with surrounding atoms.