Persistent spin excitations in doped antiferromagnets revealed by resonant inelastic light scattering

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Jia, C J ^a,b   Nowadnick, E A ^a,b   Wohlfeld, K ^a   Kung, Y F ^a,b   Chen, C C ^c   Johnston, S ^d   Tohyama, T ^e   Moritz, B ^a,f   Devereaux, T P ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUPROUS ION; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL;

CORRELATION; ELECTRON; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LIGHT SCATTERING; OXIDE; X-RAY;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; DISPERSION; ELECTRON; ENERGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENTROPY; EXCITATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON SCATTERING; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 84896812679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4314     Document Type: Article

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