Publications by Thorsten Schmitt

Momentum-resolved spin-conserving two-triplon bound state and continuum in a cuprate ladder

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Thorsten Schmitt, Vladimir N. Strocov, Yi Tseng

Studying multi-particle elementary excitations has provided unique access to understand collective many-body phenomena in correlated electronic materials, paving the way towards constructing microscopic models. In this work, we perform O K-edge resonant in ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Charge ordering in Ir dimers in the ground state of Ba5AlIr2O11

Oleg Yazyev, Vamshi Mohan Katukuri, Thorsten Schmitt, Vladimir N. Strocov, Xingye Lu

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

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

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

Fabrizio Carbone, Thorsten Schmitt, Ivan Madan, Christophe Berthod, Francesco Barantani, Yi Tseng, Dirk Van der Marel

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

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

Samuel Thomas Stolz, Thorsten Schmitt, Vladimir N. Strocov, Timur Kim

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

Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering study of Ca3Ru2O7

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

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

Electronic localization in CaVO3 films via bandwidth control

Thorsten Schmitt, Vladimir N. Strocov, Xingye Lu, Sophie Beck

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

Strain-engineering Mott-insulating La2CuO4

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Noore Elahi Shaik, Thorsten Schmitt, Johan Juul Chang, Yu-Pei Tseng, Yi Tseng

The transition temperature T-c of unconventional superconductivity is often tunable. For a monolayer of FeSe, for example, the sweet spot is uniquely bound to titanium-oxide substrates. By contrast for La2-xSrxCuO4 thin films, such substrates are sub-optim ...

Nature Research2019

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

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Martin Mourigal, Thorsten Schmitt

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, Marco Guarise, Thorsten Schmitt

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