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High Energy Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of f-electron Systems

Monday, October 28, 2013, 11:00 am, Room 102 C

Session: Actinides and Rare Earths: Experiment and Electron Correlation
Presenter: J.G. Tobin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Authors: K.O. Kvashnina, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France
J.G. Tobin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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This contribution will provide an overview of the possible spectroscopic techniques and experiments that become available for f-electron systems using high energy resolution X-ray emission spectrometer[1]. As an example we will show the studies of the electronic structure of cerium (Ce) and uranium (U) nanostructured materials by means of high energy resolution fluorescence detection (HERFD) and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) via transitions between core levels and between core and valence levels[2–5]. The experimental spectral features will be characterized using a variety of theoretical codes including the LDA+U approximation within DFT[6], atomic multiplet theory[7] and full multiple scattering FEFF[8].

Refrences:

[1] P. Glatzel, T.-C. Weng, K. Kvashnina, J. Swarbrick, M. Sikora, E. Gallo, N. Smolentsev, R. A. Mori, Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 2012, 2-10.

[2] K. O. Kvashnina, S. M. Butorin, P. Glatzel, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 2011, 26, 1265.

[3] A. Kotani, K. Kvashnina, P. Glatzel, J. Parlebas, G. Schmerber, Physical Review Letters 2012, 108, DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.036403.

[4] A. Kotani, K. O. Kvashnina, S. M. Butorin, P. Glatzel, The European Physical Journal B 2012, 85, DOI 10.1140/epjb/e2012-30079-1.

[5] T. Vitova, K. Kvashnina, G. Nocton, G. Sukharina, M. Denecke, S. Butorin, M. Mazzanti, R. Caciuffo, A. Soldatov, T. Behrends, et al., Physical Review B 2010, 82, 2-7.

[6] V. I. Anisimov, J. Zaanen, O. K. Andersen, Physical Review B 1991, 44, 943-954.

[7] Cowan R.D., University of California Press, Berkeley, 1981.

[8] A. L. Ankudinov, J. J. Rehr, S. D. Conradson, Physical Review B 1998, 58, 7565-7576.