Ab initio Maxwell-Bloch Approach for X-Ray Excitations in Two-Dimensional Materials

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Autori principali: Sturm, Joris, Maliyov, Ivan, Christiansen, Dominik, Selig, Malte, Bernardi, Marco, Knorr, Andreas
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author Sturm, Joris
Maliyov, Ivan
Christiansen, Dominik
Selig, Malte
Bernardi, Marco
Knorr, Andreas
author_facet Sturm, Joris
Maliyov, Ivan
Christiansen, Dominik
Selig, Malte
Bernardi, Marco
Knorr, Andreas
contents The combination of Maxwell and X-ray Bloch equations forms an appropriate framework to describe ultrafast time-resolved X-ray experiments on attosecond time scale in crystalline solids. However, broadband experiments such as X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy or resonant inelastic X-ray scattering require a detailed knowledge of the electronic structure and transition matrix elements. Here, we show how to fill this gap by combining the Maxwell-X-ray Bloch formalism with first-principles calculations treating explicitly the core states. The resulting X-ray absorption spectrum recovers key spectral signatures which were missing in our previous work relying on a semi-empirical tight-binding approach.
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spellingShingle Ab initio Maxwell-Bloch Approach for X-Ray Excitations in Two-Dimensional Materials
Sturm, Joris
Maliyov, Ivan
Christiansen, Dominik
Selig, Malte
Bernardi, Marco
Knorr, Andreas
Materials Science
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
The combination of Maxwell and X-ray Bloch equations forms an appropriate framework to describe ultrafast time-resolved X-ray experiments on attosecond time scale in crystalline solids. However, broadband experiments such as X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy or resonant inelastic X-ray scattering require a detailed knowledge of the electronic structure and transition matrix elements. Here, we show how to fill this gap by combining the Maxwell-X-ray Bloch formalism with first-principles calculations treating explicitly the core states. The resulting X-ray absorption spectrum recovers key spectral signatures which were missing in our previous work relying on a semi-empirical tight-binding approach.
title Ab initio Maxwell-Bloch Approach for X-Ray Excitations in Two-Dimensional Materials
topic Materials Science
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11226