Chiral structures of electric polarization vectors quantified by X-ray resonant scattering

Kook Tae Kim; Margaret R. McCarter; Vladimir A. Stoica; Sujit Das; Christoph Klewe; Elizabeth P. Donoway; David M. Burn; Padraic Shafer; Fanny Rodolakis; Mauro A.P. Gonçalves; Fernando Gómez-Ortiz; Jorge Íñiguez; Pablo García-Fernández; Javier Junquera; Sandhya Susarla; Stephen W. Lovesey; Gerrit van der Laan; Se Young Park; Lane W. Martin; John W. Freeland; Ramamoorthy Ramesh; Dong Ryeol Lee

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29359-5

Chiral structures of electric polarization vectors quantified by X-ray resonant scattering

Kook Tae Kim, Margaret R. McCarter, Vladimir A. Stoica, Sujit Das, Christoph Klewe, Elizabeth P. Donoway, David M. Burn, Padraic Shafer, Fanny Rodolakis, Mauro A.P. Gonçalves, Fernando Gómez-Ortiz, Jorge Íñiguez, Pablo García-Fernández, Javier Junquera, Sandhya Susarla, Stephen W. Lovesey, Gerrit van der Laan, Se Young Park, Lane W. Martin, John W. FreelandRamamoorthy Ramesh, Dong Ryeol Lee

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	1769
Journal	Nature communications
Volume	13
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29359-5
State	Published - Dec 2022

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General Chemistry
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Physics and Astronomy

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Kim, K. T., McCarter, M. R., Stoica, V. A., Das, S., Klewe, C., Donoway, E. P., Burn, D. M., Shafer, P., Rodolakis, F., Gonçalves, M. A. P., Gómez-Ortiz, F., Íñiguez, J., García-Fernández, P., Junquera, J., Susarla, S., Lovesey, S. W., van der Laan, G., Park, S. Y., Martin, L. W., ... Lee, D. R. (2022). Chiral structures of electric polarization vectors quantified by X-ray resonant scattering. Nature communications, 13(1), Article 1769. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29359-5

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