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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 3, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep02299
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- Killam Steacie Fellowships
- Alfred P. Sloan Steacie Fellowships
- Alexander von Humboldt Steacie Fellowships
- NSERC's Steacie Fellowships
- Canada Research Chairs Program
- ALS
- CFI
- CIFAR Quantum Materials
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Resonant elastic x-ray scattering (REXS) is an exquisite element-sensitive tool for the study of subtle charge, orbital, and spin superlattice orders driven by the valence electrons, which therefore escape detection in conventional x-ray diffraction (XRD). Although the power of REXS has been demonstrated by numerous studies of complex oxides performed in the soft x-ray regime, the cross section and photon wavelength of the material-specific elemental absorption edges ultimately set the limit to the smallest superlattice amplitude and periodicity one can probe. Here we show - with simulations and REXS on Mn-substituted Sr3Ru2O7 - that these limitations can be overcome by performing resonant scattering experiments at the absorption edge of a suitably-chosen, dilute impurity. This establishes that - in analogy with impurity-based methods used in electron-spin-resonance, nuclear-magnetic resonance, and Mo ssbauer spectroscopy -randomly distributed impurities can serve as a non-invasive, but now momentum-dependent probe, greatly extending the applicability of resonant x-ray scattering techniques.
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