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Jun-Ichi Igarashi1, Tatsuya Nagao
1Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan.
Abstract:
We study the magnetic excitation spectra of resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at the L-edge from undoped cuprates beyond the fast collision approximation. We analyse the effect of the symmetry breaking ground state on the RIXS process of the Heisenberg model by using a projection procedure. We derive the expressions of the scattering amplitude in both one-magnon and two-magnon excitation channels. Each of them consists of the isotropic and anisotropic contributions. The latter is a new finding and attributed to the long range order of the ground state. The presence of anisotropic terms is supported by numerical calculations on a two-dimensional spin cluster. We express the RIXS spectra in the form of spin-correlation functions with the coefficients evaluated on the cluster, and calculate the function in a two dimensional system within the 1/S expansion. Due to the anisotropic terms, the spectral intensities are considerably enhanced around momentum transfer q = 0 in both one-magnon and two-magnon excitation channels. This finding may be experimentally confirmed by examining carefully the q-dependence of the spectra.
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