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Chiral structures of electric polarization vectors quantified by X-ray resonant scattering

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  • Kook Tae Kim

    (Soongsil University)

  • Margaret R. McCarter

    (University of California)

  • Vladimir A. Stoica

    (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
    Pennsylvania State University)

  • Sujit Das

    (University of California
    Department of Material Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science)

  • Christoph Klewe

    (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Elizabeth P. Donoway

    (University of California)

  • David M. Burn

    (Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus)

  • Padraic Shafer

    (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Fanny Rodolakis

    (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory)

  • Mauro A. P. Gonçalves

    (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

  • Fernando Gómez-Ortiz

    (Universidad de Cantabria)

  • Jorge Íñiguez

    (Materials Research and Technology Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
    University of Luxembourg)

  • Pablo García-Fernández

    (Universidad de Cantabria)

  • Javier Junquera

    (Universidad de Cantabria)

  • Sandhya Susarla

    (National Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Stephen W. Lovesey

    (Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus)

  • Gerrit Laan

    (Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus)

  • Se Young Park

    (Soongsil University)

  • Lane W. Martin

    (University of California
    Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • John W. Freeland

    (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory)

  • Ramamoorthy Ramesh

    (University of California
    University of California
    Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Dong Ryeol Lee

    (Soongsil University)

Abstract

Resonant elastic X-ray scattering (REXS) offers a unique tool to investigate solid-state systems providing spatial knowledge from diffraction combined with electronic information through the enhanced absorption process, allowing the probing of magnetic, charge, spin, and orbital degrees of spatial order together with electronic structure. A new promising application of REXS is to elucidate the chiral structure of electrical polarization emergent in a ferroelectric oxide superlattice in which the polarization vectors in the REXS amplitude are implicitly described through an anisotropic tensor corresponding to the quadrupole moment. Here, we present a detailed theoretical framework and analysis to quantitatively analyze the experimental results of Ti L-edge REXS of a polar vortex array formed in a PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattice. Based on this theoretical framework, REXS for polar chiral structures can become a useful tool similar to x-ray resonant magnetic scattering (XRMS), enabling a comprehensive study of both electric and magnetic REXS on the chiral structures.

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  • Kook Tae Kim & Margaret R. McCarter & Vladimir A. Stoica & Sujit Das & Christoph Klewe & Elizabeth P. Donoway & David M. Burn & Padraic Shafer & Fanny Rodolakis & Mauro A. P. Gonçalves & Fernando Góme, 2022. "Chiral structures of electric polarization vectors quantified by X-ray resonant scattering," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-29359-5
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29359-5
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