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Universality of extreme broadening mechanisms in some near-edge x-ray spectra

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Author(s)

Terrence Jach, John Vinson, Michael Woodcox, Adrian Jonas, Katja Frenzel, Rainer Unterumsberger, Burkhard Beckhoff

Abstract

Extreme broadening previously observed in certain N x-ray fluorescence lines excited near the N K-edge in nitrates has been observed in the S L x-ray fluorescence in sodium sulfate, Na2SO4. It is explained as a large imaginary self-energy corresponding to an anomalously short lifetime of quasiparticles in one of the valence bands of these compounds. Our latest measurement and the corresponding many-body theory indicate that this is a general effect not specific to nitrates.
Citation
Physical Review B
Volume
111
Issue
12

Keywords

sodium sulfate, x-ray emission , x-ray absorption, RIXS

Citation

Jach, T. , Vinson, J. , Woodcox, M. , Jonas, A. , Frenzel, K. , Unterumsberger, R. and Beckhoff, B. (2025), Universality of extreme broadening mechanisms in some near-edge x-ray spectra, Physical Review B, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.111.125107, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=958635 (Accessed January 14, 2026)

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Created March 5, 2025, Updated January 13, 2026
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