Magnetic excitations in La2CuO4 probed by indirect resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
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Filomena Forte,1,2 Luuk J. P. Ament,1 and Jeroen van den Brink1,3 1Institute-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Universiteit Leiden, P.O. Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands 2Dipartimento di Fisica “E. R. Caianiello,” Università di Salerno, I-84081 Baronissi, Salerno, Italy and Laboratorio Regionale SuperMat, INFM-CNR, I-84081 Baronissi, Salerno, Italy 3Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands Received 2 May 2007; revised manuscript received 20 December 2007; published 14 April 2008
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