Locking of iridium magnetic moments to the correlated rotation of oxygen octahedra in Sr2IrO4 revealed by x-ray resonant scattering

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 25, Issue 42, 2013, Pages

  Boseggia, S ^a,b   Walker, H C ^c   Vale, J ^a,d   Springell, R ^e   Feng, Z ^a   Perry, R S ^f   Moretti Sala, M ^g   Ronnow H M ^d   Collins, S P ^b   McMorrow, D F ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c DESY   (Germany)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^g EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^h TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG PEAKS; INTEGRATED INTENSITIES; LAYERED PEROVSKITE STRUCTURE; MOTT INSULATORS; OXYGEN OCTAHEDRA; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; STRUCTURAL DISTORTIONS; X-RAY RESONANT SCATTERING;

IRIDIUM; LOCKS (FASTENERS); OXYGEN; X RAY SCATTERING;

MAGNETIC MOMENTS;

EID: 84885164021     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/25/42/422202     Document Type: Article

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