Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 208, 89-98 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2012-01609-0

Review

REXS contribution to electronic ordering investigation in solids

¹ Department of Physics, University of Durham, Rochester Building, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
² SIMaP, Grenoble-INP-CNRS-UJF, BP. 75, 38402 Saint-Martin d’Hères Cedex, France
³ Diamond Light Source Ltd., Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK
⁴ Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZE, UK
⁵ XMaS CRG Beamline (BM28), European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, BP. 220, 38043 Grenoble Cedex, France
⁶ IMPMC, CNRS - Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, France
⁷ Équipe de Physique des Surfaces et Interfaces, Institut de Physique de Rennes, UMR CNRS-UR1 6251, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
⁸ Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
⁹ Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstrasse 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
¹⁰ Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, CSIC, Campus Universitari de Bellaterra, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
¹¹ European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, BP. 220, 38043 Grenoble Cedex, France
¹² Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK
¹³ Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés (IMPMC), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 5, France
¹⁴ Department of Quantum Matter, AdSM, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8530, Japan
¹⁵ CNISM - Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, p.le Leonardo Da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
¹⁶ School of PEMS, UNSW, Canberra, ACT, 2600, Australia
¹⁷ Condensed Matter Research Center and Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
¹⁸ Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
¹⁹ Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (Hasylab at DESY), 22607 Hamburg, Germany
²⁰ Division of Materials Physics, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka T560-8531, Japan

^a e-mail: claudio.mazzoli@polimi.it

Received: 5 March 2012
Revised: 23 March 2012
Published online: 15 June 2012

Abstract

Resonant Elastic X-Ray Scattering (REXS) has played a fundamental role in understanding electronic properties and in revealing hidden order, local symmetries and exotic states realized in correlated solids. This article reports on some of the relevant scientific contributions and technical advances over the last 20 years, by providing a list of related publications produced by various groups all around the world. The given perspective is that of a group of young scientists involved at various times in the investigation of the beauty of electronic ordering by the REXS technique.