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The Nickelates: A Spin Density Wave

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Spin Spirals and Charge Textures in Transition-Metal-Oxide Heterostructures

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Engineering new electronic and structural phases by combining complex materials into heterostructures is a task taken on with widespread enthusiasm around the world. Resonant X-ray diffraction was used to develop a detailed description of antiferromagnetic ordering in epitaxial superlattices based on two-unit-cell thick layers of the strongly correlated metal LaNiO\(_{3}\).

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Notes

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    Recall that the channel \(I_{\sigma \sigma }\) is not active in magnetic scattering.

  2. 2.

    These results also rule out the phase transition of STO [38] as driving the transition.

  3. 3.

    From the expression \(Corr.~Length=\frac{a (nm)}{\pi \times FWHM}.\)

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Frano, A. (2014). The Nickelates: A Spin Density Wave. In: Spin Spirals and Charge Textures in Transition-Metal-Oxide Heterostructures. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07070-4_3

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