Collective nature of orbital excitations in layered cuprates in the absence of apical oxygens
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| author | Martinelli, Leonardo Wohlfeld, Krzysztof Pelliciari, Jonathan Arpaia, Riccardo Brookes, Nicholas B. Di Castro, Daniele Fernandez, Mirian G. Kang, Mingu Krockenberger, Yoshiharu Kummer, Kurt McNally, Daniel E. Paris, Eugenio Schmitt, Thorsten Yamamoto, Hideki Walters, Andrew Zhou, Ke-Jin Braicovich, Lucio Comin, Riccardo Sala, Marco Moretti Devereaux, Thomas P. Daghofer, Maria Ghiringhelli, Giacomo |
| author_facet | Martinelli, Leonardo Wohlfeld, Krzysztof Pelliciari, Jonathan Arpaia, Riccardo Brookes, Nicholas B. Di Castro, Daniele Fernandez, Mirian G. Kang, Mingu Krockenberger, Yoshiharu Kummer, Kurt McNally, Daniel E. Paris, Eugenio Schmitt, Thorsten Yamamoto, Hideki Walters, Andrew Zhou, Ke-Jin Braicovich, Lucio Comin, Riccardo Sala, Marco Moretti Devereaux, Thomas P. Daghofer, Maria Ghiringhelli, Giacomo |
| contents | We have investigated the 3d orbital excitations in CaCuO2 (CCO), Nd2CuO4 (NCO), and La2CuO4 (LCO) using high-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering. In LCO they behave as well-localized excitations, similarly to several other cuprates. On the contrary, in CCO and NCO the dxy orbital clearly disperse, pointing to a collective character of this excitation (orbiton) in compounds without apical oxygen. We ascribe the origin of the dispersion as stemming from a substantial next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) orbital superexchange. Such an exchange leads to the liberation of orbiton from its coupling to magnons, which is associated with the orbiton hopping between nearest neighbor copper sites. We show that the exceptionally large NNN orbital superexchange can be traced back to the absence of apical oxygens suppressing the charge transfer energy. |
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| spellingShingle | Collective nature of orbital excitations in layered cuprates in the absence of apical oxygens Martinelli, Leonardo Wohlfeld, Krzysztof Pelliciari, Jonathan Arpaia, Riccardo Brookes, Nicholas B. Di Castro, Daniele Fernandez, Mirian G. Kang, Mingu Krockenberger, Yoshiharu Kummer, Kurt McNally, Daniel E. Paris, Eugenio Schmitt, Thorsten Yamamoto, Hideki Walters, Andrew Zhou, Ke-Jin Braicovich, Lucio Comin, Riccardo Sala, Marco Moretti Devereaux, Thomas P. Daghofer, Maria Ghiringhelli, Giacomo Strongly Correlated Electrons Superconductivity We have investigated the 3d orbital excitations in CaCuO2 (CCO), Nd2CuO4 (NCO), and La2CuO4 (LCO) using high-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering. In LCO they behave as well-localized excitations, similarly to several other cuprates. On the contrary, in CCO and NCO the dxy orbital clearly disperse, pointing to a collective character of this excitation (orbiton) in compounds without apical oxygen. We ascribe the origin of the dispersion as stemming from a substantial next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) orbital superexchange. Such an exchange leads to the liberation of orbiton from its coupling to magnons, which is associated with the orbiton hopping between nearest neighbor copper sites. We show that the exceptionally large NNN orbital superexchange can be traced back to the absence of apical oxygens suppressing the charge transfer energy. |
| title | Collective nature of orbital excitations in layered cuprates in the absence of apical oxygens |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons Superconductivity |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02115 |