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- Title
Chiral structures of electric polarization vectors quantified by X-ray resonant scattering.
- Authors
Kim, Kook Tae; McCarter, Margaret R.; Stoica, Vladimir A.; Das, Sujit; Klewe, Christoph; Donoway, Elizabeth P.; Burn, David M.; Shafer, Padraic; Rodolakis, Fanny; Gonçalves, Mauro A. P.; Gómez-Ortiz, Fernando; Íñiguez, Jorge; García-Fernández, Pablo; Junquera, Javier; Susarla, Sandhya; Lovesey, Stephen W.; van der Laan, Gerrit; Park, Se Young; Martin, Lane W.; Freeland, John W.
- 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. The polar chiral texture of the vortex or skyrmion structure in ferroelectric oxide PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattice attracts attention. Here, the authors report a theoretical framework to probe emergent chirality of electrical polarization textures.
- Subjects
POLARIZATION (Electricity); X-ray scattering; QUADRUPOLE moments; POLAR vortex; ELASTIC scattering; SPATIAL systems
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-022-29359-5