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Blair W Lebert

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Raman scattering in cuprate oxychlorides high-temperature superconductors single-crystals

We investigate the Raman response of sodium-doped cuprate oxychloride Na$_x$Ca$_{2-x}$CuO$_2$Cl$_2$ high-temperature superconductors across their entire phase diagram, from the antiferromagnetic to the superconducting region. In addition to the expected Raman-active phonon modes, we detect several additional modes that can be interpreted as being excited via a resonance process enabled by strong electron--phonon coupling. To verify the resonance effect, the Raman response at different incident photon energies was measured. At high energies, there is a well-defined $B_{1g}$ mode in the antiferromagnetic phase, which can be interpreted as a bimagnon We follow its temperature and doping dependence, providing information on the multimagnon excitation in these cuprates, which can be theoretically linked to the exchange interaction.

cond-mat.supr-con↗

Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering study of $α$-RuCl$_3$: a progress report

Ru M$_3$-edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) measurements of RuCl$_3$ with 27 meV resolution reveals a spin-orbit exciton without noticeable splitting. We extract values for the spin-orbit coupling constant ($λ=154\pm2$ meV) and trigonal distortion field energy ($\left|Δ\right|<65$ meV) which support the $j_{\rm eff}=1/2$ nature of RuCl$_3$. We demonstrate the feasibility of M-edge RIXS for $4d$ systems, which allows ultra high-resolution RIXS of $4d$ systems until instrumentation for L-edge RIXS improves.

cond-mat.str-el↗