Publications by Thorsten Schmitt

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Spin-orbital separation in the quasi-one-dimensional Mott insulator Sr2CuO3

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Thorsten Schmitt, Martin Mourigal

When viewed as an elementary particle, the electron has spin and charge. When binding to the atomic nucleus, it also acquires an angular momentum quantum number corresponding to the quantized atomic orbital it occupies. Even if electrons in solids form ban ...

2012

Interplay of Dirac fermions and heavy quasiparticles in solids

Thorsten Schmitt

Many-body interactions in crystalline solids can be conveniently described in terms of quasiparticles with strongly renormalized masses as compared with those of non-interacting particles. Examples of extreme mass renormalization are on the one hand graphe ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Electronic localization in CaVO3 films via bandwidth control

Thorsten Schmitt

Understanding and controlling the electronic structure of thin layers of quantum materials is a crucial first step towards designing heterostructures where new phases and phenomena, including the metal-insulator transition (MIT), emerge. Here, we demonstra ...

Springer2019

Weyl fermions, Fermi arcs, and minority-spin carriers in ferromagnetic CoS2

Thorsten Schmitt, Samuel Thomas Stolz

Magnetic Weyl semimetals are a newly discovered class of topological materials that may serve as a platform for exotic phenomena, such as axion insulators or the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Here, we use angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy and ab i ...

2020

Charge ordering in Ir dimers in the ground state of Ba5AlIr2O11

Oleg Yazyev, Thorsten Schmitt, Vamshi Mohan Katukuri

It has been well established experimentally that the interplay of electronic correlations and spin-orbit interactions in Ir4+ and Ir5+ oxides results in insulating J(eff) = 1/2 and J(eff) = 0 ground states, respectively. However, in compounds where the str ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Three-Dimensional Electron Realm in VSe2 by Soft-X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Origin of Charge-Density Waves

Helmuth Berger, Thorsten Schmitt, Xiaoqiang Wang

The resolution of angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES) in three-dimensional (3D) momentum k is fundamentally limited by ill defined surface-perpendicular wave vector k(perpendicular to) associated with the finite photoelectron mean free path. ...

Amer Physical Soc2012

Anisotropic softening of magnetic excitations along the nodal direction in superconducting cuprates

Helmuth Berger, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Marco Grioni, Thorsten Schmitt, Bastien Dalla Piazza, Marco Guarise

The high-T-c cuprate superconductors are close to antiferromagnetic order. Recent measurements of magnetic excitations have reported an intriguing similarity to the spin wavesmagnons- of the antiferromagnetic insulating parent compounds, suggesting that ma ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Crossover of high-energy spin fluctuations from collective triplons to localized magnetic excitations in Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 ladders

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Thorsten Schmitt, Yi Tseng

We studied the magnetic excitations in the quasi-one-dimensional (q-1D) ladder subsystem of Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 (SCCO) using Cu L-3-edge resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS). By comparing momentum-resolved RIXS spectra with high (x = 12.2) and without ( ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Probing multi-spinon excitations outside of the two-spinon continuum in the antiferromagnetic spin chain cuprate Sr2CuO3

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Thorsten Schmitt, Martin Mourigal

One-dimensional (1D) magnetic insulators have attracted significant interest as a platform for studying quasiparticle fractionalization, quantum criticality, and emergent phenomena. The spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain with antiferromagnetic nearest neighbour int ...

Nature Research2018

Kondo lattice excitation observed using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering at the YbM5 edge

Marco Grioni, Thorsten Schmitt, Marco Guarise

We present a study of the resonant inelastic scattering response of YbInCu4 excited at the tender YbM5 x-ray edge. In the high-temperature, paramagnetic phase, we observe a multiplet structure which can be understood at an ionic level. Upon cooling through ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2018

Three-dimensional momentum-resolved electronic structure of 1T-TiSe2: A combined soft-x-ray photoemission and density functional theory study

Helmuth Berger, Thorsten Schmitt

1T-TiSe2 is a quasi-two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide, which exhibits a charge density wave transition at a critical temperature of similar to 200 K as well as low-temperature superconductivity induced by pressure or intercalation. The electr ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

Energy and symmetry of dd excitations in undoped layered cuprates measured by Cu L-3 resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

Marco Grioni, Thorsten Schmitt, Helmuth Berger, Marco Guarise

We measured the high-resolution Cu L-3 edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) of undoped cuprates La2CuO4, Sr2CuO2Cl2, CaCuO2 and NdBa2Cu3O6. The dominant spectral features were assigned to dd excitations and we extensively studied their polarizat ...

Institute of Physics (IoP) and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft2011

Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering study of Ca3Ru2O7

Qian Wang, Johan Juul Chang, Thorsten Schmitt, Yi Tseng, Claudia Giuseppina Fatuzzo

We present a combined oxygen K-edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) study of the bilayer ruthenate Ca3Ru2O7. Our RIXS experiments on Ca3Ru2O7 were carried out on the overlapping planar and interplanar oxygen res ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Unified one-band Hubbard model for magnetic and electronic spectra of the parent compounds of cuprate superconductors

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Helmuth Berger, Marco Grioni, Thorsten Schmitt, Bastien Dalla Piazza, Martin Mourigal, Marco Guarise

Using low-energy projection of the one-band t-t′-t′′ Hubbard model we derive an effective spin Hamiltonian and its spin-wave expansion to order 1/S. We fit the spin-wave dispersion of several parent compounds to the high-temperature superconducting cuprate ...

American Physical Society2012

Crystal field and low energy excitations measured by high resolution RIXS at the L-3 edge of Cu, Ni and Mn

Helmuth Berger, Marco Grioni, Thorsten Schmitt, Xiaoqiang Wang

Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering in the soft x-ray regime has been profiting much from technical advances that have lowered considerably the instrumental linewidth. At the ADRESS beam line of the Swiss Light Source the SAXES spectrometer can be used to ...

Springer Verlag2009

Measurement of Magnetic Excitations in the Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnetic Sr2CuO2Cl2 Insulator Using Resonant X-Ray Scattering: Evidence for Extended Interactions

Helmuth Berger, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Marco Grioni, Thorsten Schmitt, Bastien Dalla Piazza, Ping-Hui Lin, Marco Guarise, Peng Xu

We measured the momentum dependence of magnetic excitations in the model spin-1/2 2D antiferromagnetic insulator Sr2CuO2Cl2 (SCOC). We identify a single-spin-wave feature and a multimagnon continuum, with different polarization dependences. The spin waves ...

American Physical Society2010

Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Study of Electron-Exciton Coupling in High-T-c Cuprates

Fabrizio Carbone, Thorsten Schmitt, Ivan Madan, Christophe Berthod, Yi Tseng, Francesco Barantani

Explaining the mechanism of superconductivity in the high-T-c cuprates requires an understanding of what causes electrons to form Cooper pairs. Pairing can be mediated by phonons, the screened Coulomb force, spin or charge fluctuations, excitons, or by a c ...

American Physical Society2022

SAXES, a high resolution spectrometer for resonant x-ray emission in the 400-1600 eV energy range

Marco Grioni, Thorsten Schmitt, Xiaoqiang Wang

We present a 5 m long spectrometer for soft x rays to be used at a synchrotron radiation beamline for resonant x-ray emission spectroscopy and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering in the 400-1600 eV energy range. It is based on a variable line spacing spher ...

American Institute of Physics2006

High-resolution soft X-ray beamline ADRESS at the Swiss Light Source for resonant inelastic X-ray scattering and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopies

Marco Grioni, Thorsten Schmitt

The concepts and technical realisation of the high-resolution soft X-ray beamline ADRESS operating in the energy range from 300 to 1600 eV and intended for resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (R1XS) and angle-resolved photoelectron spectioscopy (ARPES) are ...

International Union of Crystallography2010

Localized and delocalized Ti 3d carriers in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 superlattices revealed by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

Joël Mesot, Thorsten Schmitt

The important source of interface conductivity in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures, the Ti 3d carriers, is probed with resonant inelastic x-ray scattering at the Ti 2p(3/2) edge of epitaxially grown superlattices. We reveal unambiguously the generation of bo ...

2011