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Resonant Scattering And Multiple Bragg X-Ray Diffraction In Lamno3; A Classical View, R. Colella, Q. Shen

Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

The mechanism for resonant scattering in LaMnO3 has been the subject of some controversy between two models. Model (A) is based on orbital ordering, whereas model (B) invokes the Jahn-Teller distortion. From the structural point of view, the two models lead to different d-electron densities. The forbidden reflection 300 is turned on by resonance, leading to a well defined scheme for the lobes of the Mn d electrons [ model (A)]. It turns out that the same experimental results could have been interpreted according to model (B). The only difference is that this alternative interpretation would have required a structure …