Charge and orbital excitations in Li2CuO2
Journal
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Journal Volume
69
Journal Issue
15
Pages
155105-1-155105-6
Date Issued
2004
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Abstract
We report a resonant inelastic x-ray scattering study of electronic excitations in Li2CuO2, an insulating compound comprised of ribbons of edge-sharing copper-oxygen chains. Three excitations, which show little dependence on momentum transfer, are observed in our measurements. The lowest-energy excitation at ∼2.1 eV is dispersionless and is attributed to a localized d-d orbital excitation. We also observe two excitations at ∼5.4 eV and ∼7.6 eV which we assign to charge-transfer excitations. These high-energy excitations are also dispersionless along the copper-oxygen chain direction. However, in each case we observe a small energy dispersion along the direction perpendicular to the copper-oxygen ribbons, suggesting a significant interchain coupling in this system. We also discuss the possible implications of ferromagnetic nearest-neighbor intrachain coupling on the charge excitation spectra.
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