Revised, 2020 (29b), http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.01098
See also Synchrotron Light Sources & Free Electron Lasers, edited by E. Jaeschke, et al.
Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016, p. 1643-1757
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14394-1_52
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14394-1_41

Introduction to High-Resolution Inelastic X-Ray Scattering
Alfred Q.R. Baron
Materials Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, RIKEN, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148 Japanbaron@spring8.or.jp

Abstract
This paper reviews non-resonant, meV-resolution inelastic x-ray scattering (IXS), as applied to the measurement of
atomic dynamics of crystalline materials. It is designed to be an introductory, though in-depth, look at the field for
those who be may interested in performing IXS experiments, or in understanding the operation of IXS spectrometers, or
those desiring a practical introduction to harmonic phonons in crystals at finite momentum transfers. The treatment of
most topics begins from ground-level, with a strong emphasis on practical issues, as they have occurred to the author in
two decades spent introducing meV-resolved IXS in Japan, including designing and building two IXS beamlines,
spectrometers and associated instrumentation, performing experiments, and helping and teaching other scientists. Afteran introduction that compares IXS to other methods of investigating atomic dynamics, some of the basic principles ofscattering theory are described with the aim of introducing useful and relevant concepts for the experimentalist. That
section includes a fairly detailed discussion of harmonic phonons. The theory section is followed by a brief discussionof calculations and then a longer section on spectrometer design, concepts, and implementation, including a brief
introduction to dynamical diffraction and a survey of presently available instruments. Finally, there is discussion of thetypes of experiments that have been carried out, with a focused discussion on measurements of superconductors, andbrief discussion (but with many references) of other types of crystalline samples.

Table of Contents
0. Preface to the 2018 Revision
1. Preliminaries
1.1 Introduction
1.2 IXS: Concept and Spectral Gallery
1.3 Overview of Facilities & Future Options
1.4 Comparison with Other Methods
1.4.1 Inelastic Neutron Scattering (INS)
1.4.2 Inelastic UV spectroscopy (IUVS)
1.4.3 meV-Resolution Resonant IXS (RIXS)
1.4.4 Nuclear Resonant Scattering (NRS)
1.4.5 Thermal Diffuse Scattering (TDS)
1.4.6 Fourier Transform IXS (Pump-Probe TDS)
1.4.7 Atom and Electron Scattering
1.4.8 X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (XPCS)
1.4.9 Raman and IR spectroscopy
1.4.10 Other Methods for Acoustic Modes
2. Scattering Theory, Phonons.
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Dynamic Structure Factor, S ( Q, ω )2.3 The Static Structure Factor S ( Q )2.4 The X-Ray Form Factor and Charge Density Operator
2.5 Coherent and Incoherent Scattering
2.6 Other Correlation Functions, Sum Rules
2.7 The Incoherent Limit: Ideal Gas, Densities of States, Impulse Approximation
2.8 The Phonon Expansion: Formulas for S ( Q, ω )2.9 Harmonic Phonons: The Dynamical Matrix, Eigenpolarizations, Acoustic & Optical Modes, Participation Ratio
2.10 The Real-Space Force-Constant Matrix and Acoustic Sum Rule2.11 Practical (Harmonic) Phonons
2.11.1 One Phonon Cross-section, Transverse and Longitudinal Geometries, Q vs. q
2.11.2 On the intensity of the terms in the phonon expansion.
2.11.3 Anti-crossings
2.11.4 Two-Phonon Scattering
2.12 Non-harmonic Phonons
2.13 Detailed Balance and Symmetrizing Spectra13. Calculations of Atomic Dynamics
4. IXS Spectrometers
4.1 Design Issues and Existing Spectrometer Layout
4.2 Dynamical Bragg Diffraction
4.3 Silicon & Non-Silicon Optics
4.4 High Resolution Monochromator (HRM) Design
4.5 Spherical Analyzers
4.6 Efficient Use of an Analyzer Array
4.7 Post-Sample Collimation (PSC) Optics
4.8 Comparison of 9.1 keV PSC and Spherical Analyzers
4.9 Electronic Excitation with a High Resolution Spectrometer
5. Sample Science
5.1 Introduction and Overview
5.2 Superconductors
5.2.1 Background5.2.2 Conventional Superconductors
5.2.3 Conventional Superconductors - Temperature Dependence
5.2.4 Cuprate Superconductors
5.2.5 Iron Pnictide Superconductors
6. Concluding Comments
7. Acknowledgements
8. Electronic Supplementary Materials
9. References

Table Of Abbreviations
CDW
DAC
DHO
HRM
INS
IFC
IUVS
IXS
NIS
NRIXS
NRS
PSC
RIXS
SA
SIXS
TDS
XAFS
XPCS

Charge Density Wave
Diamond Anvil Cell
Damped Harmonic Oscillator
High Resolution Monochromator
Inelastic Neutron Scattering
Interatomic Force ConstantInelastic Ultraviolet Spectroscopy
Inelastic X-Ray Scattering(In the present paper: specifically meV resolved non-resonant investigations)
Nuclear Inelastic Scattering(also, sometimes, NRVS, or, occasionally, NRIXS, is used instead)
Non-Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering(Generally with resolution on the 0.1 eV scale for electronic interactions)
Nuclear Resonant Scattering
Post Sample Collimation
Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering
Spherical Analyzer
Soft (X-ray) Inelastic X-Ray Scattering
Thermal Diffuse Scattering
X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure
X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy20. Preface to the 2018 and 2020 Revisions
This paper is a revised version of a review prepared in 2014 and disseminated in 2015 and 2016 (Baron), and thenrevised in 2018 and 2020. The 2018 version updated references, and generally tried to make the paper more readable
and precise. It also extended the discussion of spectrometers with a more detailed comparison of spherical analyzers(SA) and post-sample collimation (PSC) optics (section 4.8). The 2020 revision includes further updates in references
and changes to the discussion about multi-phonon scattering, and detailed balance.

1. Preliminaries
1.1 Introduction
Inelastic x-ray scattering (IXS), broadly interpreted, refers to a large collection of photon-in -> photon-out measurement
techniques that are used to investigate many disparate aspects of materials dynamics*. The breadth of the science
involved, and the sophistication of the instrumentation, can make the field somewhat daunting for newcomers. Table 1
lists some of the techniques that fall under the broad interpretation of the heading, while figure 1 schematically showssome of the excitations that may be probed. Methods range from Compton scattering that may be used to probe
electron momentum densities, to x-ray Raman scattering that is, to a first approximation, similar to XAFS, probing
atomic bonding, to resonant inelastic scattering which can probe collective and localized electronic states, as well as
magnetism, to non-resonant techniques that, with sufficiently high flux (and, usually, poorer resolution), can be used toprobe band-structure and electronic excited state structure, and, with higher resolution, to probe atomic dynamics.

Figure 1. Conceptual diagram of excitations that may be probed using non-resonant IXS. Energy scales andintensities are approximate. Magnons (say 0.01-1 eV) are not shown but may be accessed via resonant inelastic x-ray
scattering. The energy scale of the core excitations will depend significantly on the material and that for Compton scatteringon the x-ray energy and momentum transfer. Valence excitations include both band structure and localized and nonlocalized excitations. Momentum transfer is not considered, but can have a huge impact on intensity.

The present paper will focus on high-, meV-resolution, non-resonant IXS as applied to the investigation of atomic
dynamics, especially phonons in crystalline materials. It will provide an introduction to x-ray scattering appropriate forthe consideration of these measurements, a reasonably detailed description of the instrumentation and optical issues
relevant to spectrometer performance, and a selection of examples drawn from recent literature. The goal is to provide
an introduction that is appropriate for a motivated but uninitiated reader - we will try to clearly define most of theconcepts used, and provide a selection of references for more information. Further, while discussing the backgroundfor the scattering theory, constant effort is made to make contact with practical issues and examples.
The driving impetus for this paper is the present opportunity afforded by meV-resolved inelastic x-ray scattering. The
concepts for understanding IXS largely date back to the 50s and 60s when neutron sources and spectrometers began toallow measurement of dynamical properties of materials over atomic-scale correlation lengths. However, with thedevelopment of synchrotron sources, x-rays have undergone an increase in source brilliance of more than 10 orders ofmagnitude in the last 50 years, so, at least in some respects, the x-ray spectrometers have now out-stripped the neutron
spectrometers. In particular, with the increased specialization of synchrotron beamlines over the last 2 decades, there
are now multiple facilities where one, as a user, can show up with a small piece of crystal - say 1 mm, or 0.1 mm, or*

A comprehensive treatment of many aspects of IXS, but not the meV-resolved work discussed here, can be found in (Schülke, 2007).

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even 0.01 mm in diameter - and walk away with extremely clean, meV-resolved measurements of the dynamic
structure factor, S ( Q, ω ) . One can investigate phonon dispersion, interactions, and line shapes, doping dependencies,etc., with relative ease: in IXS, the backgrounds tend to be small, there are no "spurions", there is no complex resolution
coupling, and (for better or worse) no contribution from magnetic excitations. Thus there is an opportunity toinvestigate dynamics in qualitatively new way with x-rays, and perhaps, when combined with modern computermodeling, to begin to reverse the exodus from atomic dynamics of crystals (with its large number of modes) tomagnetic dynamics (often simpler, with only one or two magnetic atoms per unit cell), or, even better, to involve newpeople in investigations of atomic dynamics.

Technique

Incident Photon

EnergyEnergyTransfer

Information Content

1Compton100 keVkeV

Electron Momentum Density
Fermi Surface Shape2

Magnetic Compton

100 keVkeV

Density of Unpaired Spins

3

RIXS
Resonant IXS

4-15 keV

0.1-50 eV

Electronic & Magnetic
Structure & Excitations

4

SIXS
Soft X-Ray (Resonant) IXS

0.1 - 2 keV

0.05 - 5 eVElectronic & Magnetic
Structure & Excitations

5

NIS (NRVS)
Nuclear IXS

10 - 30 keV

1-100 meV

Element Specific Phonon
Density of States (DOS)6

X-Ray Raman

10 keV50 -1000 eV

Edge Structure, Bonding,
Valence

7

NRIXS
Non-Resonant IXS

10 keV

0.01 - 10 eV

Electronic Structure& Excitations

8

IXS
High-Resolution IXS

10-25 keV

1-100 meV

Atomic Dynamics &Phonon Dispersion

Table 1: List of techniques broadly grouped under the heading of Inelastic X-Ray Scattering including common
abbreviations and approximate photon energies. Techniques 3 and 4 (RIXS and SIXS) use resonant scattering so boththe incident energy and the analyzers must be tuned near to the relevant electronic resonance/edge. These resonant
techniques often have high rates, but can be complex to interpret. Technique 5 (NIS) employs scattering from nuclear(Mossbauer) resonances. Discussion of methods 1-3, 6 and 7 can be found in the book by Schülke (Schülke, 2007),
while a review of (3) also relevant to (4) can be found in (Ament, et al., 2011) and a review of NRS methods, (5), can befound in (Gerdau & de Waard, 2000).

Historically, the possibility to apply x-ray scattering to measure atomic dynamics had long been tacitly recognized in
the presence of thermal diffuse scattering (TDS) from crystals. However, energy-resolved measurements of thisscattering faced considerable challenges due to the required high resolution: Å wavelength x-rays have energies ~10
keV, so resolving the ~meV excitations associated with atomic dynamics requires energy resolution, ΔE/E, at the levelof 10-7. None-the-less with the advent of synchrotron radiation sources, and relying on the existence of highly perfectsilicon crystals, such experiments were discussed as early as 1980 (Dorner, et al., 1980). This was followed byadditional work (including (Graeff & Materlik, 1982),(Fujii, et al., 1982)) and a published proposal for a spectrometer(Dorner et al.1986), and then construction and demonstration of the first inelastic x-ray scattering (IXS) spectrometer at
HASYLAB at DESY in Hamburg, Germany (Dorner, et al., 1987) (Burkel et al.1987) in the 80's. More in-depth
discussion of the background and historical development of IXS as a technique through this time may be found in(Burkel, 1991). Then, with the development of 3rd generation sources, and the success of the first IXS beamline at theEuropean Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in the mid 90's, there has been sustained effort in the field, and meVresolved IXS has come into its own as a technique.
This paper will review high-resolution non-resonant IXS measurements from the point of view of scattering theory,
instrumentation, and application to current issues in materials science and condensed matter physics. It builds on, andis designed to complement, the existing literature. Other papers that have covered similar topics include (Burkel, 2000)
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(Sinn, 2001) (Krisch & Sette, 2007) (Baron, 2009) and, of necessity, there will be some overlap. However, this paper
will both attempt to emphasize things that have not been discussed, or not been discussed so thoroughly, in the previous
papers, and will choose a different selection of scientific examples.

1.2 IXS: Concept and Spectral Gallery
It is useful at the outset to introduce the basic concept of an IXS measurement and some examples of spectra. Thesecan be kept in mind during the discussions that follow.
The modern IXS spectrometer is essentially a rather large x-ray diffractometer with an energy-scan option. A
schematic and a photograph of (part of) one spectrometer are shown in figure 2. The bandwidth of the incident beam is
reduced to the meV-level using a high-resolution monochromator (HRM), and the beam scattered from the sample
passes through an analyzer with similar resolution. Such spectrometers operate at momentum transfers between about
0.5 and 100 nm-1 and energy transfers, typically, up to ~300 meV, with momentum resolution between ~0.05 and 1 nm-1
and energy resolution between about 0.6 and 6 meV, depending on the details of the setup. As will be discussed in
section 4, the high resolution required leads to rather large (~10m scale) spectrometers. A measurement usuallyproceeds by (1) moving the spectrometer two-theta arm (which holds the analyzer - or analyzer array) so the analyzer
will intercept the scattered radiation at the momentum transfer of interest+, and then (2) scanning the energy of theincident beam while holding the analyzer energy (and position) constant. The resulting spectrum, intensity vs. energy
transferred to the sample, ω , is directly proportional to the dynamic structure factor, S ( Q, ω ) . For crystalline
samples, one must choose the orientation of the crystal properly, as IXS is sensitive to a phased sum of atomic motions
projected onto the momentum transfer (see discussion in sections 2.8, 2.9 and 2.11) while for disordered materials(liquids, glasses) the spectra depend only on the magnitude of the momentum transfer.

Figure 2. Schematic of IXS spectrometer layout (left) and photograph of the 10m arm of the spectrometer of
BL43LXU of SPring-8 (right). The schematic indicates main components conceptually, and is not to scale. For the photo,
the beam is incident from the right side with the sample also on the far right in the center of the green chi circle and theanalyzers crystals sit inside the chamber at the far left.

Figure 3 shows examples from several classes of materials that have been investigated using IXS. Disordered materials
such as liquids (figure 3a) and glasses (3b), are usually characterized by spectra with a strong peak near zero energy
transfer, and, at least at smaller (say, <10 nm-1) momentum transfers, a dispersing longitudinal acoustic (sound) mode.
At larger momentum transfers (and sometimes also even at low momentum transfers) the acoustic mode can be broadand effectively merge with the quasi-elastic peak (though one can define the mode energy by the peak of the currentcurrent correlation function, J~ ω S ( Q, ω ) / Q ). The clearest difference in the spectra of liquids and glasses is often
the width of the peak at zero energy transfer, which, for liquids is usually broadened by diffusion while, for glasses,
where the characteristic relaxation is much slower ( ≥ 100s, by definition), the peak is resolution limited on the meV
scale. In contrast, spectra for crystalline materials (e.g. figure 3c) generally have well-defined peaks corresponding to
specific phonon modes at finite energy transfers. No strong peak at zero energy transfer is generally expected, except at
Bragg reflections, though often there is some diffuse scattering due to sample imperfections, or superstructure, and, at
higher temperatures, multi-phonon contributions. In most cases, low-energy phonon modes have higher intensity thanhigh-energy modes, due to both temperature-dependent occupation factors and the fact that high-frequency modes havesmaller displacements. Acoustic modes usually have the largest intensity, followed by a band of mid-energy-range (say10-40 meV) optic modes with less intensity dueteite to both their higher energy and more complex polarizations,followed by a high-energy band of optical modes (say, 40 to as much as 200 meV) that can be extremely weak due totheir high frequency and the fact that their high frequency often is the result of the modes being mostly motion of light2+

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The magnitude of the momentum transfer, Q = ( 4 π λ ) sin ( 2Θ 2 ) is determined by the scattering angle, 2Θ , and the incident

x-ray wavelength, λ , and there is no coupling between energy transfer and momentum transfer so, different than a neutron triple
axis spectrometer, scans at fixed Q are done without moving the sample or the two-theta arm.

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atoms, which have reduced x-ray scattering. In many cases, the line-width of phonon modes will be resolution limited
as intrinsic phonon line widths tend to be << meV (lifetimes >> ps) though in some cases, such as strong phononphonon scattering, or strong electron-phonon coupling, line-widths can be measurable. The final spectrum (figure 3d)shows a relaxor, where there is strong phonon-phonon coupling (anharmonicity) leading to broad phonon modes.

Figure 3. Gallery of IXS Spectra. Figures show typical IXS data sets including (a) liquid Mg (based on data in (Kawakita, etal., 2003) - note a resolution deconvolution has been done using a maximum-entropy method, and (b) glassy Se (after (Scopigno,
et al., 2004), Copyright (2004) by the American Physical Society) as examples of disordered materials. Panels (c) and (d) show
data from crystalline materials: a superconductor (after (Baron, et al., 2008)) and a relaxor (based on data in (Ohwada, et al.,2008)). For the disordered materials, the acoustic mode can be seen dispersing out from small momentum transfers, andeventually broadening and becoming difficult to distinguish from the quasi-elastic peak at zero energy transfer. For the
crystalline materials, several distinct peaks corresponding to the phonon modes are easily observed, with, strong broadening
being visible for the relaxor TO mode.

1.3 Overview of Facilities and Future Options
There are, as of early 2018, 6 relatively stable facilities world-wide doing meV IXS measurements: two beamlines,
sector 3 and sector 30, at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, Illinois, inthe United States, one beamline, ID28, at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France,
two beamlines, BL35XU and BL43LXU, at SPring-8 in Harima Science Garden City of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan andone beamline, 10ID, at BNL's NSLS-II on Long Island in New York. While, to a first approximation, all of thesefacilities perform similar measurements, there are significant differences in the optics and capabilities of each
instrument. Table 2 presents some of the parameters of these instruments, and the instruments will be discussed in
more detail in section 4 below. One notes also that the ESRF source was upgraded with it reopening in 2020 with asmaller horizontal source size.
At this time, to the best of the author's knowledge, there has been no attempt to carry out conventional meV-resolution
IXS at the newest types of x-ray sources, the x-ray free electron lasers (XFELs). XFELs are strong pulsed sources,
with the time-averaged flux (as measured in photons/sec/meV) often much lower than that of the present, 3rd,
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generation of storage rings (excepting the European XFEL in Hamburg, and the upgrade of the LCLS). Given that, andthe severe over-subscription of these facilities, and the few beamlines available, a meV spectrometer has not yet been
set up. However, a spectrometer at such a source might be extremely interesting for time resolved measurements, toinvestigate changes in dynamics associated with intermediate states in reactions, or to investigate responses to coherent
phonons, or non-equilibrium conditions. Also, at these facilities a time resolved method has been employed (see discussion in section
1.4.6 below) that while not really an equilibrium spectroscopy, can provide related information about phonons.
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The next generation storage ring sources, the hard-x-ray "ultimate" or "diffraction limited" storage rings (USRs,
DLSRs), will provide improvement for all samples in IXS in as much as they provide increased flux (photons/s/meV)onto the sample, as flux is usually the limiting parameter in IXS. However, the largest improvement planned for the
next generation storage rings is in source brilliance (photons/s/source-size/source-divergence/bandwidth) achieved
mostly by reducing the source (electron beam) size in the horizontal. The optics for IXS are not, in most cases,
primarily brilliance limited so while improved brilliance will allow a smaller focus at the sample position, it does not
imply similar gains in flux on the sample for typical sample sizes. Thus, while it is sure that experiments on (sub-)micron size samples will benefit at DLSRs, more general improvement for samples of size >10 microns, if present at all,will probably not be as large as might be expected based the numbers describing improvements in brilliance. In fact,changing other parameters, can even abrogate those improvements, with for example, the planned reduction ofoperating energy and insertion device length of SPring-8 when it is "upgraded" requiring also a significant beam current
increase to keep a similar flux (photons/s/meV) for IXS.
The greatest potential over-all improvement for IXS (up to radiation damage issues) may be a cavity oscillator basedsource such as an x-ray free-electron laser oscillator, X-FELO (Kim et al.2008) where the available flux
(photons/s/meV) might increase as much as 4 orders of magnitude beyond present levels, though such a source remains
to be demonstrated.

1.4 Comparison of IXS with Other Methods
This section compares IXS with other methods of measuring atomic dynamics, and, especially, to inelastic neutron
scattering (INS) which has long been the method of choice for measuring atomic dynamics over atomic-scalecorrelation lengths. These comparisons are useful to highlight the advantages and limits of the IXS technique, and may
be valuable for people who have experience with, or want to consider, alternative measurement techniques. Morediscussion about alternative techniques can also be found in texts (e.g. (Brüesch, 1982), (Srivastava, 1990)) and thereferences given below.

1.4.1 Inelastic Neutron Scattering (INS)Inelastic neutron scattering (INS) has long been the method of choice for measuring atomic dynamics over atomic-scalecorrelation lengths. The differences between INS and IXS can be traced to the fundamental differences in the probes(massless x-rays vs. massive neutrons) and their interaction cross-section with mater, and to differences in the source
properties. Table 3 lists some of the aspects of IXS in the context of INS, and the underlying source of the difference.

Characteristic of IXS (Relative to INS)

ReasonComment

Access to small (<micro-gram) samples

SourceDecoupling of Energy and Momentum Transfer
Energy Resolution Independent of Energy Transfer
Small Intrinsic Background
Simple & Good Momentum resolution
Limited Energy Resolution
High Radiation Damage

Massless Probe
Massless Probe
Cross Section
Massless Probe & Source(Massless Probe & Cross Section)
Cross Section

X-Ray Focus ~0.005 mm
X-Rays > 9000 eV &Neutrons < 0.1 eV
No Incoherent, No Multiple
Effective Slitting
X-rays >~ meV
Large photo-electric absorption

Table 3: Comparative points for IXS and INS

The most important characteristic of IXS as compared to INS is probably the ability of IXS to probe small samples.
This is directly the result of the high flux and high brilliance of modern x-ray sources, where the small source size andsmall divergence (~ 0.01 x 0.5 mm2 and ~10x30 µrad2, vertical x horizontal, for a 3rd generation storage ring) for the xray beam makes it easy to focus the x-rays to a transverse size of ~0.1 mm or even, with some losses, to ~0.005 mm.
This allows comparable size samples to be investigated, including samples in extreme (e.g. near earth’s core) conditions
in diamond anvil cells (DACs), and small crystals of new materials. The latter is especially important as one caninvestigate phonons without having to invest huge effort to grow large samples, making it relatively easy to do IXS on a
newly discovered material. Up to the complexity of interpreting phonon spectra (which, of course, will not stop serious
scientists), IXS is an easy spectroscopy, available nearly immediately after a reasonable quality (~0.1 degree mosaic)
single crystal of new material is fabricated (and sometimes even a powder can be sufficient, for density of states
measurements).
The massless nature of the probe means that the energy of Å-wavelength x-rays (~12400 eV) is much larger than the~0.08 eV of Å-wavelength neutrons (where the Å scale is set by the interest in investigating correlations of motions
over atomic-scale distances). While this creates a severe resolution requirement to achieve meV resolution with x-rays,
it also leads to a complete decoupling of momentum and energy transfer: changing the energy of a >10,000 eV photon
by the, typically, <0.1 eV energy of a phonon, makes a negligible change in its momentum on the scale of the Brillouinzone. This has important consequences for measurements of disordered materials where one would often like access to8

large (say 20-50 meV) energy transfer at small (~nm-1) momentum transfers, which can be difficult with neutrons. This
lack of kinematic constraints in IXS is responsible for an explosion in the investigation of the atomic dynamics ofdisordered materials over the last 20 years or so during which IXS has been available. (For crystalline materials, where
one usually works in higher Brillouin zones, kinematic constraints are less of an issue). Other consequences of themassless probe/high x-ray energy relate to the way Bragg-reflection based optics work. Generally, Bragg reflections
have a fixed fractional bandwidth so that the large absolute x-ray energy means there is little (practically, no) change in
the absolute bandwidth over phonon-scale energy transfers. Meanwhile, the limits on the resolution stem from inability
to lower the energy to get better resolution, combined with the generally high absorption cross-section for x-rays
making improved resolution at high energies difficult without large losses (see section 4).
The difference in the x-ray and neutron cross-sections leads to several notable features. The largest cross-section for
10-20 keV energy x-rays interacting with matter is that for photo-electric absorption - the Thomson scattering crosssection (which generates the signal of interest) is typically an order of magnitude, or more, smaller (see also figure 16).
This effectively prevents multiple scattering backgrounds from appearing in most x-ray measurements (it also means Xrays often see only the top 0.01 or 0.1 mm of a sample, even if the total sample thickness is larger). In contrast, forneutrons the scattering cross-section is usually the dominant one, so as samples are made thicker to improve INS countrates, multiple scattering becomes an issue. Further, the incoherent cross section for x-rays, Compton scattering, leads
to large energy transfers (>eV) due to the small electron mass, whereas the neutron incoherent scattering is usually on
exactly the meV scale of interest for atomic dynamics (see eqn 9). IXS is then essentially background free, excepting
the multi-phonon contribution (see sections 2.8 and 2.11.4). However, the large absorption cross section also means
that, with x-rays, radiation damage can be a serious issue, even with the relatively (as compared to other synchrotronwork) weak meV-bandwidth beams used for IXS: protein crystals and polymers show visible damage on the hour timescales of typical scans, and the author has observed changes in elastic intensities in IXS spectra on these time scales.
(Note, the trick of freezing a sample as used in structural studies is of arguable efficacy for IXS, as, in principle, thedynamics can change as soon as particles are ionized).
As the relationship of the isotopic species and neutron
scattering cross-section is complex, as opposed to the ~Z2 scaling for x-ray scattering, there also can be advantages foreach (x-rays or neutrons) depending on the atoms/isotopes in the sample. However, the x-ray analogue of isotope
replacement in INS, which is tuning to atomic resonances to change cross-sections to help identify features of thescattering related to particular atomic species, is not yet possible with meV resolution (see the section on RIXS, below).
Neutrons are advantageous when very high-energy resolution is needed, as backscattering spectrometers provide ~ 10
µeV level resolution, at least for smaller energy transfers, and spin echo spectrometers can reach neV levels, sometimes
even ~10 µeV for larger energy transfers (Aynajian et al.2008). In addition, whereas the energy resolution for most xray spectrometers is approximately Lorentzian and so has long tails, the resolution with neutrons often has shorter tails.
This can make neutrons advantageous for observing weak modes near to stronger ones, or for measuring modes in thepresence of strong elastic backgrounds. However, a new spectrometer design (see sections 4.7, 4.8) may also improve
the situation for x-rays. Neutrons are extremely interesting when large single crystals of heavier materials are available,
whereas x-rays are limited by the short penetration length into the sample due to the high photoelectric absorption.
Also, modern time-of-flight neutron spectrometers (Kajimoto et al.2011)(Abernathy et al.2012) allow collection of ahuge swath of momentum space at one time, and assuming modest (~0.1 cc) size samples are available, may offer
advantages for survey measurements of all phonons in a material.

1.4.2 Inelastic Ultra-Violet Spectroscopy (IUVS)It is interesting to extend IXS work to small, but still finite, momentum transfers: to go below the ~0.5 nm-1 that is apractical limit in many IXS spectrometers today, down to the level 0.1 nm-1, or lower. This is can be particularlyinteresting for disordered materials, where the transition from a continuum hydrodynamic limit to atomistic behavior
can, depending on system, be expected to occur gradually as one increases momentum transfer from inverse-microns to
inverse-nm. Extending the IXS measurements toward low Q has been possible using a synchrotron based facility (see(Masciovecchio, et al., 2006) and references there-in) with either an insertion device or laser based source:
measurements at momentum transfers slightly below 0.1 nm-1 have been achieved.

1.4.3 meV-Resolution Resonant IXSIn principle, resonant x-ray scattering, where the incident beam energy is tuned near to an atomic transition or edge may
be done with meV resolution to investigate atomic dynamics, both in the hard x-ray regime (RIXS) with crystal optics
and the soft x-ray regime (SIXS) where gratings are employed. This then probes the response in the presence of,usually, a core hole, which in turn can affect the dynamics, providing potentially different information than the nonresonant IXS that is the main topic of this review. At present, the resolution in hard x-ray RIXS is on the verge ofreaching levels that are generally interesting for atomic dynamics, and will probably get to the few meV level soon,
while soft x-ray approaches, even with rather large, 15m, two-theta arms, appear to be limited to more like 10-30 meV
resolution, as might be interesting for atomic dynamics for some specific cases. We discuss some of the practical issues
for meV-scale hard x-ray RIXS in section 4.3. Generally, one would expect meV-RIXS to make several things possible,
including, most directly, anomalous scattering (the analogue of isotope replacement in INS) which may be useful tohelp identify the atomic species contributing to a given spectral feature, and to take advantage of resonant
enhancements to increase count-rates, and provide more precise information on phonon eigenvectors. However, some9

caution is also needed, as, for the non-resonant case one is probing the equilibrium properties and the theory is well
evolved, while for the resonant case there may be significant differences. This is evident, for example, in theunderstanding of the effects of electron phonon coupling (epc) on the spectra: for non-resonant scattering, epc
generally leads to phonon energy shifts and line-width increases that are, in principle, directly related to the interesting
quantity, λ, for estimating, e.g., the onset of superconductivity. For resonant scattering one can isolate a quantity
related to electron-phonon coupling (Ament & Brink, 2011), but the relation to conventional properties is not as
straightforward as for the non-resonant case (see also (Beye & Föhlisch, 2011)). There is already some indication ofthis in the presence of Frank-Condon sidebands [see e.g. (Henderson & Imbusch, 1989)] in some resonant studies[(Gretarsson, et al., 2013; Lee, et al., 2013)]. It can be possible to relate the observed phonon intensity to the electronphonon coupling (Devereaux, et al., 2016)(Braicovich, et al., 2020).

1.4.4 Nuclear Resonant Scattering
Nuclear resonant scattering (NRS) from low-lying narrow (typically neV to µeV bandwidth) nuclear resonances can beused to investigate atomic dynamics on the meV scale, [(Seto, et al., 1995)(Sturhahn, et al., 1995)(Chumakov, et al.,1996)], using specific isotopes of materials such as Fe, Eu, Sn, Sm, Dy, Kr, and Tm to name a few of the moreaccessible resonances (for a review of the larger nuclear resonant scattering field see papers in (Gerdau & de Waard,
2000)). The most robust of the NRS techniques, sometimes called Nuclear Inelastic Scattering (NIS), uses a ~meV
resolved beam incident on a sample containing the resonant material (Seto, et al., 1995). Scanning the energy of thisbeam about the nuclear transition energy near 14.4 keV, and selecting only the nuclear scattered events, yields the
distribution of excitations in the sample that can make up the difference between the incident beam energy and thenuclear resonance energy. This is essentially an absorption measurement (incoherent scattering with momentum
transfer equal to the incident photon momentum), and yields the partial density of states of resonant nuclear motion.
While the method is limited to probing the motions of modes including motion of the resonant atom, the data is often ofhigh quality compared to the DOS provided by INS or IXS. The nuclear/element-selectivity can also be useful to focus
on motions of particular atomic species, and the large nuclear cross-section can allow access to relatively small samples(e.g. thin, even single atomic, layers). However, NIS does not allow measurement of phonon dispersion and selectionof specific phonon modes is not possible using NIS, unless they are isolated from all other modes in energy. An
alternative to the NIS method, which is not limited to resonant atoms in the sample, is to use a nuclear analyzer (NA)
(Chumakov, et al., 1996). This is similar in concept to the IXS technique discussed in the bulk of this paper, except that
nuclear scattering is used to analyze the scattered radiation. This method allows simultaneous measurement of a large
area of momentum space (large solid angle of acceptance) as determined primarily by the detector solid angle.
However, the effective bandwidth of the nuclear analyzer is ~1 microvolt, or less. Thus, the NA method is severely
flux limited, and probably not practical in cases where good momentum resolution is required (Baron, 2013).

1.4.5 Thermal Diffuse Scattering (TDS)
Thermal diffuse scattering (TDS) is another probe of atomic dynamics: momentum resolved but energy-integrated
measurements generally show structure due to the momentum-dependence of phonon polarization vectors and energies.
Information can be derived from TDS (see, e.g. (Holt, et al., 1999) (Xu & Chiang, 2005)(Bosak, et al., 2009),(Wehinger,
et al., 2017) and references therein) by fitting results from simple samples with models, and/or through temperaturedependent measurements, or careful analysis. However, due to the energy-integrated nature of these measurements,
TDS is of limited value as a direct probe of phonons in more complex materials. TDS is probably most useful as acomplementary technique to IXS - it can be used to quickly investigate large volumes of momentum space to, forexample, pinpoint the momentum transfers where intensity changes are present (e.g. across phase transitions)warranting further investigation by IXS. One might also consider combining TDS with resonant scattering, taking
advantage of the tuneability of most modern x-ray sources, to help differentiate between the motions of different atoms,
but, to this author's knowledge, this has not yet been done.

1.4.6 Fourier-Transform IXS (Pump-Probe TDS)
Recently it has been demonstrated (Trigo, et al., 2013) that it is possible to investigate TDS on a ~0.1 ps time scale in a
pump-probe experiment - a laser pump sets the zero time and an x-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) pulse acts as theprobe. One then can measure, stroboscopically, the oscillations in the TDS intensity as a function of time after the laser
pulse, and relate them to phonon frequencies, at least for lower frequency modes. Further, given the availability of area
detectors at XFELs, signal from a wide range of momentum transfers, several Brillouin zones, can be collected
simultaneously with good Q resolution and effectively sub-meV energy resolution (Zhu, et al., 2015) (but not along
exact symmetry directions - see the discussion in section 4.6 about using an analyzer array at a fixed sample orientation).
This allows collection of data that can be used to determine the dispersion of low-frequency phonons. However, thepump pulse disturbs the thermal equilibrium of the sample, so the samples' thermodynamic state is complicated, similar
to that of a coherent phonon (Fahy, et al., 2016). Of particular note is the recent result where the time domain nature of
the technique allows direct visualization of phonon anharmonic decay: as the x-ray probe is delayed relative to thepump, the intensity of one mode is seen to decay while that of another increases (Teitelbaum, et al., 2018). That type oftime domain result has no analogue in the frequency domain spectroscopy discussed in this paper. However, one
should emphasize that the pump in this Fourier-Transform method means it is intrinsically a probe of non-equilibrium
conditions so that, while potentially providing specific and unique information, results should be interpreted with care.

101.4.7 Atom and Electron Scattering
Surface and near-surface vibrational modes can be probed using atom (typically, helium) and electron scattering which
both can measure meV-scale energy transfers at atomic scale momentum transfers. Recent work includes (Kostov, etal., 2011)(Tamtögl, et al., 2013)(Steurer, et al., 2008) and see (Benedek, et al., 2010) and references therein. In
principle, a grazing incidence geometry with x-rays can also probe surface dynamics of solids (Murphy, et al., 2005)(and even liquids, (Reichert, et al., 2007)) but those are hard experiments: for solids amenable to UVH environments,
atom or electron scattering may be easier than IXS for probing surface vibrations. Also, recently, ultrafast time
resolved electron diffuse scattering (UEDS) has become possible (René de Cotret, et al., 2019) that provides data that isvery similar to the Fourier Transform IXS discussed in the immediately preceding section.

1.4.8 X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS, also sometimes called intensity fluctuation spectroscopy, XIFS) is an xray scattering method used to probe atomic dynamics directly in the time domain by measuring the time-evolution of
the fine-structure, the speckles, in the x-ray scattering from a sample. The speckle pattern responds to the detailed
atomic-scale charge-distribution of the sample, and changes in the atomic positions then lead to changes in the speckle
pattern, assuming appropriate conditions are met for the setup. This method is available at storage ring sources toinvestigate dynamics down to ~ms time scale, and probably to the µs scale after the next round of machine upgrades.
There is now effort to do similar measurements using pulsed x-ray free electron lasers with split-and-delay (S&D)
setups. Instrumental resolution at the level of ~10 ps has been demonstrated (see (Roseker, et al., 2012) (Robert, et al.,2013) (Osaka, et al., 2014) and references therein) which should be straightforward, technically, to extend to the meV(<1 ps) IXS scale in principle (  =0.658 meV-ps). While presently under heavy development, so the situation is
subject to rapid change, we note two caveats. First, the meV scale of interest here is comparable to the usual sample
temperatures so the Bose factor makes the scattering strongly non-classical (not symmetric about zero energy transfer).
This is a somewhat new situation in XPCS where energies are usually much less than kBT and the sample response isconsidered classically, though it may covered by some treatments (Sutton, 2002). Further, and perhaps more seriously,
the experiments with the S&D crystal optics remain flux limited and it may take a large number of shots to get
sufficient quality data (see, e.g., the related discussion in appendix B of (Martin, 2017)). An alternative method using abroader incident bandwidth and varying the length of a single x-ray pulse (without S&D optics) may offer practicaladvantages for a limited (short, ~0.1 ps) time range in some cases (Perakis, et al., 2018).

1.4.9 Raman and IR Spectroscopy
Raman and IR spectroscopy are two well-known methods of probing atomic dynamics. Both, using near-visible light,
are effectively at nearly zero momentum transfer, and probe only the gamma point modes (Qmax= 4 π / λ = 0.0012 Å-1for λ=1 micron). In Raman scattering, like IXS, the phonons introduce an energy transfer to the incident light. The
intensity is then measured as a function of that energy transfer, with filtering to remove the elastic component. This
process relies on interactions with (tails of the) electronic resonances in the system, so that interpretation of relative
intensities can be more complex than for IXS. In IR measurements, the photon energy matches the phonon energy, andone does what is effectively an absorption (or reflection) measurement. Both of these methods, at Q~0, obey strong
selection rules relating to the symmetry of the modes/material, the incident beam direction, and the polarization of theincident and scattered radiation. In fact, phonon modes are usually characterized as Raman-active, IR-active, or silent,
based on their symmetry. These strong selection rules can lead to large affects being visible in spectra when passing
through a phase transformation that changes the symmetry of a crystalline sample, with modes appearing or
disappearing. IXS, in contrast, has selection rules (see section 2.8) that are smoothly dependent on momentum transfer(and therefore depend also on momentum resolution and crystal quality) so that, while phase transformations certainly
affect the phonons in IXS, the effects can be more subtle than those sometimes seen in Raman scattering. The clarity of
results in Raman scattering is also aided by the relatively good energy resolution, ~0.1 meV in many cases. Another
difference is that for Raman and IR spectroscopies, there is the potential for interference between the phonon scatteringand that directly from electronic resonances, thus, for example, Raman scattering can show Fano-type asymmetries inthe spectral line-shape. Such interference is generally too weak to be seen with x-rays (the direct electronic scatteringcross section is too small).

1.4.10 Other Methods for Acoustic Modes
IXS is often used as a probe of acoustic mode dispersion, as extrapolation to low Q allows one to estimate the speed ofsound in materials, and eventually, elastic constants. There is particular interest in this from a geological standpoint,where precise seismic information about the sound velocity in the interior of the earth exists, but the interpretation ofthese velocities requires making controlled laboratory measurements to, in essence, create a data-base matching soundspeed with material composition, structure, pressure and temperature. In a different context, the frequencies, andespecially, damping, of long wavelength acoustic vibrations in crystalline materials can provide information that is
almost calorimetric in nature. Alternative methods to measure sound speeds include Brillouin Light Scattering (BLS),
Resonant Ultrasound (RUS - see (Migliori & Sarrao, 1997)) and shockwave measurements (Brown & McQueen,1986)(Jeanloz, et al., 2007). BLS is similar in principle to Raman scattering but is done in transmission, so is limited totransparent samples. RUS involves shaking a small sample at ultrasonic frequencies, preferably one having a very welldefined (e.g. parallelepiped) shape. In general, both of these methods, when possible, yield rather high-quality data onsound velocities and damping. However, especially as regards RUS work, one notes that these methods can be11sensitive to things that IXS is completely blind to: for example RUS experiments on SrTiO3 show a remarkable nearglobal loss of phonon signal at the structural phase transition (at ~105K) due to the formation of domain structure (see(Scott, et al., 2011)) and similarly for EuTiO3 (Spalek, et al., 2014). Thus, it can be very interesting, with due care, tocompare the results of these methods with IXS. Finally, we mention that, for high pressure and temperature work,
especially as related to geology, macroscopic measurements of shockwave propagation may be used to determine thesound velocity at a specific set of P, T and density values. This requires macroscopic samples.

2. Scattering Theory, Phonons.
2.1 Introduction
It is valuable to consider some theoretical background: this allows us to define many of the concepts relevant to IXS,
and also helps to indicate at what point in the development various approximations are made. Here we start rather
generally, but then emphasize the case of harmonic phonons, as that model provides the basis for discussing dynamics
in crystalline materials. Other issues that are explicitly addressed include multi-phonon effects, non-harmonicity*,
detailed balance, and sum rules. We take some small additional space to try to explain and motivate the progression ofideas and to try to emphasize practical issues related to IXS measurements.
The conditions for inelastic x-ray scattering, with the distance the beam propagates being much larger than the sample
size and the x-ray wavelength, are appropriate to apply scattering theory to relate the measured scattered intensity to themicroscopic properties of the sample. In effect, scattering theory allows one to go from the solution of the condensed
matter physics problem where one solves for the atomic motions in some material, to the results of a measurement.
There are (at least) two different ways that this can be approached, depending on what is most relevant to an
experiment: one can either focus on constructing the scattered wave from the detailed sample charge distribution via thescattering amplitude, or one can focus on calculating probability of scattering the x-ray from one (usually, plane-wave)
state to another with an accompanying change in the state of the sample via Fermi's golden rule. The first is essentiallymodified diffraction theory [see, e.g., (Jackson, 1999)], while the second is more classical scattering theory largely
developed to describe neutron investigations [see, e.g., (Squires, 1978)]. The scattering amplitude approach lends itself
immediately to considering the shape and the detailed distribution of atomic positions and electronic charge within thesample, and is especially useful in the context of coherent x-ray scattering (correlation spectroscopy, coherent
diffraction imaging (CDI), pytography) as has now become very much in vogue given the high brilliance of x-ray
sources. The golden-rule approach lends itself more directly to thinking about excitations within the sample and aquantum-mechanical treatment there-of. In principle, the two might be combined at the level of the first line of eqn (23)below, however, it is probable that when such a case might be interesting, say, for small, nano-scale, samples, thephonon model of the sample motions should be revisited to account for the exact shape and size of the sample. We also
note that most diffraction or scattering amplitude based approaches assume fixed or very slowly moving scatterers,
implicitly assuming the scattered intensity is symmetric about zero energy transfer. This violates the detailed balance
symmetry discussed below and should probably be revisited when, as is the case for most of this review, energy scales
are comparable to kBT (see (Sutton, 2002) for a possible form for generalized expressions).
In this paper, we emphasize the Fermi golden rule approach leading to formal scattering theory. The scattering crosssection is then the quantity of interest, being proportional to the experimental intensities. We will introduce the crosssection, the dynamic structure factor, S ( Q, ω ) , and some useful relationships, with an emphasis on the development
relating to (harmonic) phonons in crystals. We also continue the phonon expansion to second order, as is important for
IXS. References developing scattering theory in detail include (Squires, 1978) and (Lovesey, 1984) ((Lovesey, 1984)is broader in scope than (Squires, 1978) but the restriction of many formulas to monatomic Bravais lattices can limit its
utility), while (Sinha, 2001) relates various forms of the cross section used in different viewpoints on x-ray scattering.
The original papers, especially (van Hove, 1954) and, for sum rules, (Placzek, 1952) are also very much worth reading.
The present discussion follows most closely the work of (Squires, 1978)*.
We emphasize here that the present discussion takes place entirely within the Born approximation, where one ignores
multiple scattering (similar to the kinematic limit of diffraction theory) since a later section of this review will discuss
dynamical diffraction theory. The Born approximation is, in general, an excellent approximation for x-ray scattering,*

The present review will use the term "non-harmonic" in an effort to distinguish between a general violation of the simplest harmonic phonon model,
and "anharmonicity" that is often used to refer specifically to violations of harmonicity arising from phonon-phonon scattering. "Non-harmonic" willrefer to any behavior that is not harmonic of which anharmonicity is only one example. e.g. electron-phonon coupling leads to non-harmonicity but is
not anharmonic.
*
For the purposes of considering atomic dynamics, formulas for neutron scattering can generally be converted to x-ray scattering by replacing thecoherent neutron scattering length, b, by ref(Q), where re is the classical radius of the electron, re=e2 /mc2~2.81 fm, and f(Q) is the x-ray form factor
for the relevant atom or ion at momentum transfer Q = Q .

12especially given the high absorption cross section in most cases prevents multiple scattering, as discussed in section
1.4.1. The only exception discussed so far in terms of IXS is the possibility of exciting a Bragg reflection in a
crystalline sample while measuring at a momentum transfer far from the Bragg beam. Then the measured scattering iscontaminated by having, effectively, a new incident direction from the Bragg beam, and the measured spectra can thenreflect two momentum transfers (Bosak & Krisch, 2007)(Alatas, et al., 2008). The more interesting case of using
dynamical scattering to control the spatial dependence of a wave field and generate phase information on an atomic
scale, reminiscent of standing wave measurements, might be used to learn about phonon eigenvectors (Kohl, 1985) but,to this authors' knowledge, has not yet been tried with meV-scale energy resolution (though it has been done using TDS,
without energy resolution (Spalt, et al., 1988)).

2.2 The Dynamic Structure Factor, S ( Q, ω )The main quantity used to discuss IXS results is the dynamic structure factor, S ( Q, ω ) . It is directly related to the crosssection by factoring out a scale factor related to the probe-sample interaction (the Thomson scattering of an x-ray by anelectron). This allows one to focus more directly on the dynamics, and, to some extent, to compare results with different
probes. For scattering of an x-ray from an initial state given by photon momentum, k1 , and polarization, ε 1 , to a final
state given by k 2 , ε 2 the cross-section for scattering the photon into some solid angle dΩ about a momentum transfer
of Q = k 2 − k1 and into some energy bandwidth, dE, is written⎛ d 2σ ⎞2k= 2 re2 ε 2* • ε1 S ( Q, ω )⎜ dΩdE ⎟k1⎝⎠ k ε −>k ε
1 1

(1)

2 2

Assuming a non-resonant scattering process allows us to concentrate on the energy transfer E ≡ ω ≡ (ω1 − ω 2 )(note, as is common in IXS work, we take positive energy transfer to correspond to the higher intensity side of thespectra corresponding to giving energy to the sample or Stokes scattering) and the scattering geometry, approximated asplane-wave in to plane-wave out, promotes emphasis on the momentum transfer. For photons, one has the usual
relations between energy, wavelength, and momentum, Ei ≡ !ω i ≡ !c k i = hc / λi . The over-all scale is the Thomson
cross-section for a single electron, re ε 1 • ε 2 , and S ( Q, ω ) has units electrons squared per unit energy transfer. For22*

the non-resonant scattering discussed in this paper, the photon polarizations ε1, ε 2 enter only in the scale factor - there
is no interesting dependence on x-ray photon polarizations. Further, for high-resolution IXS, the wavelength change issmall compared to the wavelength, Δλ λ < 10−4

, so the magnitude of the momentum transfer depends only on the

scattering angle 2Θ , Q = ( 4 π λ ) sin ( 2Θ 2 ) , and the phase space factor can be taken as unity, k2 k1 → 1 .
The connection to the golden rule can be seen from writing

S ( Q, ω ) =∑ ∑ p λe
λ−iQ•raλ ' λ ' eiQ•rb λ δ ( Eλ − Eλ ' − ω )States Electrons
λλ '
a,b

(2)
2

where the exponentials come from the plane wave expansion of the vector potential in the A term of the interaction
Hamiltonian. In the usual way, one sums over final states and averages over initial states whose probabilities are givenby pλ with the delta-function insuring energy conservation.

In thermal equilibrium one has pλ = e

−βE

λ

Z at

temperature T = [ k B β ] where Z is the partition function and k B Boltzmann’s constant ( k B =0.0862 meV/K).
Sometimes scattering is also described in terms of linear response with the dynamic susceptibility given by (see (Sinha,2001), (Lovesey, 1984))−1

S ( Q, ω ) =1
1
Im ⎡⎣ χ ( Q, ω ) ⎤⎦π 1− e− βω(3)This is a version of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, S ( Q, ω ) playing the role of the dissipation or scattering andχ ( Q, ω ) the fluctuation or linear response.

2.3 The Static Structure Factor, S ( Q )13

Structural measurements, where there is no energy analysis of the outgoing beam, effectively integrate over energy
transfer. The relation of the dynamic structure factor, S(Q, ω ) , to the (dimensionless) structure factor, S ( Q ) , is

S (Q) = +∞

∫ S (Q,ω ) dω = 1+ ρ ∫ d r [ g(r) − 1] e
3

−iQ•r

−∞

(4)

where the second equality introduces the pair distribution function, g(r), sometimes used in structural studies (e.g. "pdf"analysis of powder diffraction) with ρ the average particle number density. One should, perhaps, emphasize that while
S ( Q ) is often called the "static" structure factor to differentiate it from the dynamic structure factor, S ( Q, ω ) , theintegral over all energy transfer in eqn. (4) means that S ( Q ) really responds to the average (temporal, thermal)
positions of the atoms: the intensity of the elastic scattering, S ( Q, ω = 0 ) is not, generally, related to structure in a

simple way. However, measurements of S ( Q, ω = 0 ) combined with those of S ( Q ) (say, with and without an analyzer
crystal) can be useful to determine if a correlation, a peak in Q space, is due to static or dynamic order (e.g. (Shirane, etal., 1987)). Properly normalized, the static structure factor goes to unity at large Q and is proportional to the isothermal
compressibility at small Q.

2.4 The X-Ray Form Factor and Charge Density Operator
At this point, one can introduce an explicit model, e.g. phonons, to describe the dynamical states of the system λ , λ 'and calculate the relevant cross-sections. However, it is useful, momentarily, to keep more generality and introduce themomentum-space charge-density operator given asρ ( Q, t ) =∑e−iQ•ri ( t )iElectrons=∑ f (Q ) e−iQ•R j ( t )

j

j
Atoms

(5)

( ) is the nuclear position of the j atom. The second equality

where ri ( t ) is the position of the ith electron and R j tthintroduces the atomic form factor, which is just the Fourier transform of the atomic charge density*. Tabulations of theform factor for free atoms and ions (as a function of Q) are available in the literature (Waasmaier & Kirfel, 1994) andsome databases (e.g. DABAX in XOP (Sánchez del Río & Dejus, 2011)).
The introduction of the form factor, as commonly done in x-ray scattering, has additional implication in the present
case: the form of f(Q), where all time dependence and electron and nuclear coordinates have been dropped, effectively
includes the assumption that the atomic electrons move instantaneously with the nucleus, and that the shape of theelectron cloud does not change when the atom moves. This bears some relation to the adiabatic or Born-Oppenheimer
approximation (see section 2.9), but, in principle, is much more restrictive, and, certainly, when thinking about thesolution to the condensed matter problem of solving for the dynamical excitations of the scatterer, is just wrong - thevalence electrons certainly do change their spatial distribution as atoms move in a solid. However, as most of thescattering at the momentum transfers of interest is from inner, core, electrons, and as these do mostly move with thenucleus and, to a good approximation, do not change shape, using the from factor in this way is reasonable for the
purpose of calculating the scattered intensity. It is also the basis for suggesting that IXS probes essentially the same
nuclear motion as is probed by INS.

2.5 Coherent and Incoherent Scattering
Using the charge density operator, we introduce the idea of coherent and incoherent scattering, as used in the context of
inelastic scattering measurements. This is a division that has great utility in neutron scattering where chemicallyequivalent atoms can have different scattering amplitudes due to, e.g., isotope disorder, or the presence and randomorientation of nuclear spins. These are parameters that can be difficult to control experimentally, and are averaged over.
In x-ray scattering, especially from core electrons as we are discussing here, there is no incoherent scattering at thesame fundamental level: the scattering amplitude is well defined as soon as one specifies the element doing thescattering. The reason that we discuss this distinction is then partly historical (to explain, more precisely, the reason for
distinction between coherent and incoherent scattering) partly utility (in some cases, such as disordered or doped
materials there can be, effectively, incoherent scattering, even for x-rays) and also as a point of nomenclature (todistinguish the use of the term coherent in the present context, inelastic scattering, from that often used in x-ray
scattering (such as "coherent diffraction") which means something else. The concept of incoherent scattering remains*

We take f to be normalized to give the number of electrons in the atom at Q=0.

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useful, even for x-rays, in that, if it can be identified, the incoherent part of the scattering does not depend directly on
the microscopic atomic arrangement, while the coherent part generally does.
The charge density operator may be used to write the dynamic structure factor as

1
S ( Q, ω ) =
2π 

+∞

∫ dt eρ ( Q,0 ) ρ + ( Q,t )

−iω t

−∞

(6)

where the brackets indicate configurational averaging. The transformation of eqn. (2) into eqn (6) requires some work,with the introduction of Heisenberg time-dependent operators allowing removal of the explicit sum over intermediate
states (see (Sinha, 2001)(Squires, 1978) (Lovesey, 1984)). Using the definition of the charge density operator, eqn. (5),one can expand the product asρ ( Q, 0 ) ρ+( Q, t )=∑f f ejk−iQ•R j ( 0 ) iQ•R k ( t )∑ f f α jk

=

e

j

jk

=

f

2

k

jk

(7a)

∑ α jk + f ∑ ( Δ j + Δ k ) α jk + ∑ Δ Δ α jk
j

jk

jk

k

jk

where we have dropped the explicit Q dependence from the atomic form factors and the second equation in the first line
just replaces the complex exponential with α jk for notational convenience. The last equation then follows if one

1N

writes f j = f + Δ j and we define an average form factor f =∑ f with the corollary that ∑ Δ = 0 . If
j

j

j

j

we now assume that the variation in the form factor for each atom is not correlated with its position - something that is
not correct in general, but is reasonable (for neutrons) for a monatomic Bravais lattices or monatomic disorderedmaterials, then the configurational average will cause terms linear in Δ to drop out, and the term quadratic in delta to
reduce to diagonal terms only givingρ ( Q, 0 ) ρ ( Q, t )
+

=

f

2

∑ α jk + ∑ Δ 2 α jj
j

jk

= f2

j

∑ α jkjk+(f − f ) ∑
2

2

(7b)
α jj

j

Equation (7b) is then the usual division of the cross section used in inelastic neutron scattering. The first term is the"coherent" part of the scattering and includes interference terms responding to the positions of all of the atoms. The
second term is called the "self-" or "incoherent-" part of the cross section and responds just to single-particle motion,
averaged over the sample. For neutrons, the weighting of the two contributions in (7b) is material and isotope
dependent, and one speaks of separate contributions from the incoherent and coherent scattering even for monatomic
samples. For x-rays, generally specifying the atom type is enough to specify the scattering amplitude so, for monatomic
2

2

samples, one has f − f = 0 and there is no incoherent scattering. However, there can be similar contributions
arising from, e.g., doping a material so that one atom is randomly replaced by another with a different form factor,
leading to a random fluctuation in the scattering amplitude, and an effective incoherent scattering contribution.
Furthermore, any process (such as most types of absorption, scattering at very larger momentum transfers, or scatteringfrom randomly arranged atoms - perfect fluids, ideal gases - section 2.7) that tends to emphasize the diagonal (self)
terms of correlation function is often called incoherent.
In the context of modern x-ray scattering measurements, the term "coherent" (or "incoherent") is often used in adifferent way. Here, for IXS, the usage focuses on the effects of disorder in the microscopic scattering properties of thematerial - the impact of the sample disorder on the averaging of experiments over many scattering events. However,often, in x-ray scattering one talks about "coherent" scattering as, effectively, related to the possibility to observe
speckles in the scattered radiation, as is determined, primarily, by the source, by the preparation of the incoming x-ray
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beam (it must present a well defined phase front over the illuminated sample - i.e. it must be transversely coherent - andlongitudinally coherent over relevant path-length difference) and the spatial resolution of the detector. The latter usage
appears in the context of imaging or intensity fluctuation (photon correlation, XPCS) spectroscopy experiments.
Conceptually there is some overlap in that both refer to the effects of averaging, but, really, they are distinct: in one casethe relevant averaging is over sample properties and, in the other, over source (and detector) properties. Unlessspecifically stated otherwise, we will use coherence in the former sense, referring to averaging over sample properties.

2.6 Other Correlation Functions, Sum Rules
Texts on scattering theory describe several correlation functions related to S ( Q, ω ) by Fourier transform - theseinclude the intermediate scattering function, sometimes called I ( Q, t ) or S ( Q,t ) but more often F ( Q, t ) , and thetime-dependent pair correlation function, G ( r, t ) (see, e.g., chapter 4 of (Squires, 1978), chapter 3 of (Lovesey, 1984))
G is also sometimes called the van Hove correlation function after the beautiful work in (van Hove, 1954) and is givenbyG ( r,t ) =!

dω e∫ dr e( 2π ) ∫
iω t

−iQ•r

3

S ( Q, ω )(8)These functions can be useful in developing the general theory further, looking at the symmetries of the scattering, andconsidering sum rules. They frequently are discussed in more detail in the context of scattering from disorderedmaterials, where, as there is no primitive cell, it can be difficult to simplify the dynamic structure factor further. While
we do not go into detail in the present paper, it is worth noting the sum rule that the first moment of S ( Q, ω ) for amonatomic sample is just the recoil energy:
∞

∫

−∞

2

!2 Q
!ω S ( Q, ω ) d ( !ω ) =
≡ Er
2M

(9)

where M is the atomic mass. This is analogous to the f- or oscillator-strength- sum rule from optics, and sets the energy
scale of the scattering as the recoil energy (e.g. Er = 2.1 meV / M[amu] at Q=1 Å-1). This sum rule may be derived bytaking commutators with the Hamiltonian (Placzek, 1952) or time derivatives of the intermediate scattering function,
and will apply as long as there is no velocity dependence to the inter-atomic potential - generally a good approximation(one possible exception is bcc He (Gov, 2003)). This first moment sum rule applies to both the incoherent and thetotal scattering - i.e.: the first moment of the incoherent part of the dynamic structure factor is also the recoil energy.
This sum rule (and other related ones) can be useful to derive average properties of materials from spectra measured athigh Q (in the incoherent limit - see section 2.7). It (and other related rules) are also very useful in nuclear inelastic
scattering (section 1.4.4). A modified form for 1-phonon scattering of a Bravais lattice is given by (Ambegaokar, et al.,−2W

1965) with the recoil energy reduced by a factor of the Debye-Waller factor ( e). For materials where there is morethan one type of atom doing the scattering, there is, to this author's knowledge, no rigorously justified generalization.
Also, the above discussion assumes that the energy transfer integration range is limited to the range over which thesample motions are well described by motions of the atoms - if one goes to higher (eV-scale) energy transfers where
one primarily observes scattering from valence electrons, the atomic mass should be replaced by the electron mass.

2.7

The Incoherent Limit: Ideal Gas, Density of States, Impulse Approximation

There are cases, even with x-rays, when it is reasonable to neglect the interatomic correlations of atoms in a material
and the scattering becomes effectively incoherent (as discussed in the present section, this does not come fromfluctuations in the scattering from different atoms, but the cancellation of the interatomic terms in the first term of eqn 7,
leaving only the diagonal part, which then has the dependence of the incoherent term of 7b -> hence "incoherent").
Two immediate cases include the scattering from an ideal gas (or "perfect fluid") and scattering from any material atsufficiently large momentum transfer. Solution for the case of the ideal gas or perfect fluid (a collection of colliding
but otherwise non-interacting, uncorrelated atoms at some temperature T) is just a Gaussian

S ( Q, ω ) Ideal Gas =

⎧ β
β
2⎫
exp ⎨−
ω − Er ) ⎬(4 π Er⎩ 4Er⎭ (10)

centered at the recoil energy defined above.
The high Q limit is the case where small displacements strongly influence the phase of interatomic contribution to eqn.
7b, and will lead to reduction of the cross terms between different atoms. This limit, for monatomic scatterers allows
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one to get some information, with sum rules analogous to eqn. (9) providing fairly direct access to various average
properties such as kinetic energy and derivatives of the potential. In the case of crystalline materials, incoherent
scattering can be related, at least approximately, to the phonon density of states, though, the different form factors ofdifferent atoms, and their momentum dependence, with the resulting formal lack of sum rules, makes the calculations of
the density of states less rigorous than for nuclear inelastic scattering (see section 1.4.4). Going further, to extremely
large Q, if the energy transfer is large compared to the energies of the excitations in a material (i.e. Q is large enough sothat recoil energy is larger than phonon energies), one can reach the impulse approximation limit (Hohenberg &Platzman, 1966) of deep inelastic scattering. In this limit, the scattered intensity is directly proportional to the atomic
momentum density (e.g. Compton scattering) - essentially one takes R ( t ) → m t where p is the atomic momentum andpm the atomic mass. Carefully speaking, IXS is usually not in this limit, however, this limit has been demonstrated to bemostly acceptable for a case with relatively small atomic-mass scatterer, liquid neon (Monaco, et al., 2002), and, might,
given sufficient interest, be extended to other light materials (see also discussion in (Glyde, 1994)).

2.8 The Phonon Expansion: Formulas for S ( Q, ω )Considerable simplification of, or at least a change in perspective regarding, the dynamic structure factor is possible forcrystalline solids. We take advantage of the assumed periodicity to writeρ ( Q, t ) =∑Primitive Cells∑

fd ( Q ) e−iQ•rde⎛ Crystalline ⎞⎜⎝ Materials ⎟⎠ (11)−iQ•u d ( t )dAtoms/Cell

where the N  repeating primitive+ cells are indexed by  and the r atoms in each primitive cell are indexed by d (insome treatments, the index κ is used instead of d). The displacements of the atoms from their time-averaged positions,rd , are given by u d ( t ) so that we have taken R j ( t ) ≡ R d ( t ) = rd + u d ( t ) = r + rd + u d ( t ) . Using this to expand
the dynamic structure factor gives

S ( Q, ω ) =

∑e
2π 
N


Prim. CellsiQ•r∑ f (Q) f (Q) e
d

d'

(

−iQ• rd ' −rd

)

+∞

∫ dte

−iω t

e

−iQ•u 0 d ' ( t =0 )e+iQ•u d ( t )

(12)

−∞

dd '
Atoms/Cell

where we have assumed that we can take the sum over ,' as depending only on the difference, so we take ' = 0 and
one sum to a factor of N  .
Proceeding further is possible by assuming some form for dynamical excitations in the sample - making assumptions
about the from of u d ( t ) . This, in general, is a complex problem, but, for the purposes of a first understanding ofphonon measurements, many of the essential ideas can be introduced by assuming a harmonic (or pseudo-harmonic+)model of the lattice dynamics. While, strictly speaking, this eliminates many interesting cases, in fact, for most of theinteresting cases, one considers the non-harmonicity by introducing corrections to the harmonic results: the harmonicmodel is a useful, nearly necessary, starting point. (Developments of S ( Q, ω ) that do not assume harmonic motion at
the present stage may be found in e.g. (Baym, 1961; Ambegaokar, et al., 1965)) We take (see chapter 3 and appendix
G of (Squires, 1978))⎛ ⎞ud ( t ) = ⎜⎟⎝ 2M d N q ⎠

1/2

3r

∑ ∑ ω1 ⎡⎢⎣ e a e (qjd qjq
j=1
First Zone Modesqj+

i q•r −ω qj t

)+ e

qjd

*

aqj + e () (13)⎥−i q•r −ω qj t ⎤⎦We emphasize the distinction between a primitive cell as (one of) the smallest repeatable unit(s) whose translation can generate the entire structure,
as frequently different from a unit cell that often is a larger and is chosen for convenience. For example, the cubic unit cell used to describe diamondor silicon contains 8 atoms, while the proper primitive cell contains only 2 atoms. The phonon dispersion is then described by 6=3x2 phonon
branches, not 3x8=24. Using the larger cell in a model would cause a lot of unnecessary computation and lead to many phonon branches with zerointensity.
+
The term "pseudo-harmonic" is often used to indicate a harmonic model where the atomic interaction terms are scaled with temperature to accountfor effect of, say, thermal expansion. This leads to harmonic phonons at any fixed temperature, but, since, strictly speaking, a harmonic solid does
not undergo thermal expansion, is termed pseudo-harmonic.

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where we have expanded the motions in terms of the allowable normal modes (indexed by q,j, with frequencies ω qj andpolarizations e qjd ) with the creation and annihilation operators aqj+

aqj . The assumption of harmonic motion allows

application of the Baker-Hausdorf theorem to give

e+iQ•uℓ'd ' ( 0 ) e−iQ•uℓd (t )

= e
= e

where Wd ≡ 12 Q • u d()

V ≡ Q•u d ( t ) .

2− 21 Q•u ℓ'd '−Wd −Wd 'e2e− 21 Q•u ℓd(1+ UV2e(Q•u ( 0 ))(Q•u (t ))
ℓ'd '

ℓd

(14)

)

2
+ 12 UV + ...

has been assumed to be independent of primitive cell, and we have taken U ≡ ( Q•u'd' ( 0 )) andCounting the number of creation and annihilation operators in each term one finds that the terms inparentheses correspond, respectively, to no-phonon, 1-phonon and 2-phonon scattering, so we write

S ( Q, ω ) = S ( Q, ω )0 p + S ( Q, ω )1p + S ( Q, ω )2 p + ... (15)
We now discuss the form of each term as can be derived by applying the results of (Squires, 1978). We emphasize thatthe picture here is of a collection of phonon modes that is completely defined - polarization and frequency - at
momentum transfers q within the first Brillouin zone (c.f. the expansion of eqn. (13)) but probed at some momentum
transfer Q that can be (and usually is) outside the first zone. More discussion about practical interpretation of theseterms, may also be found in section 2.11.
The zero-phonon, elastic, term is

S ( Q, ω )0 p = N ℓ 2∑ f (Q) ed2−WdeiQ•rdδ Q,τ δ ( "ω )

(16)

d

= N ℓ 2 Fτ2δ Q,τ δ ( "ω )which is just the usual expression for Bragg scattering. The second equality defines the structure factor Fτ (in units ofelectrons - recall factoring out re in eqn. (1)) in the usual way for the Bragg reflection at reciprocal lattice vector τ .
The first order, one-phonon, term is∑ ∑S ( Q, ω )1p = N ℓ((⎧ nqj + 1 δ ω − ω qj⎪
F1p (τ ,q, j ) δ Q−q,τ ⎨⎪⎩ + nqj δ ω + ω qj
2qj
1st Zone Modes) ⎫⎪ (17)⎬) ⎪⎭where the two terms in the last bracket are due to phonon creation and phonon annihilation, respectively.
occupation factors are from the expectation values of the number operator nqj+

aqj aqj = nqj + 1(bosons). In thermal equilibrium one then has nqj

section 2.13) is given by nqj + 1

F1p (τ ,qj )nqj = e

2

1
=
ω qj

+ β !ω

qj

∑
d

=

(

+
aqj aqj

and its Hermitian conjugate) and detailed balance (see= e + β !ω − 1
qj

The

−1

. The one-phonon structure factor F1p (units of electrons) is given by2

fd (Q) −Wde
Q • e qjd eiQ•rd
2M d

(18)

where we have decomposed the total momentum transfer, Q, as required by the delta function⎛ τ a reciprocal lattice vector ⎞(19)
Q=τ +q ⎜⎝ q in the first brillouin zone ⎟⎠18

The generalization of eqn (17) to allow for finite phonon line-width may be found in eqns. (31)-(33).

The second order, 2-phonon term is

S ( Q, ω )2 p =1
2∑ ∑ F (τ , qj, q' j ') δ

(
(
(

) ⎫⎪
) ⎪⎬ (20)⎪) ⎪⎭⎧ nqj + 1 nqj '+ 1 δ ω − ω qj − ω qj '⎪⎪⎨ + 2 nqj nqj '+ 1 δ ω + ω qj − ω qj '⎪⎪⎩ + nqj nqj ' δ ω + ω qj + ω qj '2

2p

Q−q−q',τ

=ω qj ω q' j 'fd ( Q) −Wde
Q • e qjd Q • e q' j 'd eiQ•rd
2M d

qq' jj 'where

F2 p (τ ,qj,q' j ')

2

∑
d

2

(21)

and Q = τ + q + q ' . The terms in the brackets correspond to two-phonon creation, phonon creation and annihilation, andtwo-phonon annihilation, respectively. This form has been simplified from (Baron, et al., 2007) by assuming that the
eigenvectors and frequencies have been chosen so that ω qj = ω −qj and e qjd*= e −qjd .

The Debye-Waller factor is

Wd =

≈

1
2

( Q • u d )

2

3

2

Q

(

=

2

2M β k BΘ D

)2



1

4 M d Nq3r∑∑q

Q • e qjd

j=1

ω qj

2

(

coth ω qj β / 2)(22)( Debye Spectrum )where the last expression is for a monatomic sample with a Debye spectrum (acoustic modes only, to a maximum
energy of ω D = k B Θ D , Θ D the "Debye temperature"- see (Lovesey, 1984), chapter 4) as is sometimes used as a first
approximation. The mode frequencies, ω qj , in all these expressions are assumed to be real and positive definite, as isrequired for a stable lattice in the harmonic approximation. The presence of the Kroneker delta function (othertreatments use a Dirac delta) in the various expressions comes from writing

∑ e

iQ•rℓ

ℓ
Prim Cells3=sin ( N iϕ i / 2 ) −i N i −1)ϕ i∏ sin (ϕ / 2) e (i=1→ N ℓ δ Q,τ

i( Parallelepiped )(23)( Large N ℓ )The first equation assumes the sample is a parallelepiped with sides of N i primitive cells parallel to each primitive

lattice vector a i (with ϕ i = a i • Q and the number of cells N ℓ = N1N 2 N 3 ) and is easily derived by considering thegeometric series implied by the sum. This form explicitly includes the effects of the diffraction from the finite size ofthe sample. The second equation neglects the geometric effects of the sample extent, with the Kroneker delta-function
giving unity when Q is any vector of the reciprocal lattice, τ . It is worth emphasizing, in the context of XPCS (x-ray
photon correlation spectroscopy) or CDI (coherent diffractions imaging) that the approximation of the second part ofeqn 23, while allowing the theory to proceed easily is, in effect, where one discards all information about the impact of
the sample shape on the scattering process.

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2.9 Harmonic Phonons: The Dynamical Matrix, Eigenpolarizations, Acoustic &Optical Modes, Participation Ratio
We now discuss harmonic phonons in more detail. The solution postulated above comes from applying periodic
boundary conditions to the problem and expanding the potential of the interaction to lowest non-vanishing order inatomic displacements - see (Born & Huang, 1954) and (Maradudin, 1974). The chain of argument can be broken down
into steps including (1) the adiabatic approximation (2) neglect of the effect of atomic displacements on the electronic
states, and (3) assumption of simple lowest-order (spring-constant) interactions between pairs of atoms, neglecting thehigher order terms coupling different normal modes. The steps are discussed in detail in (Maradudin, 1974) including
estimates of the magnitude of the various terms. Assumptions (2) and (3) are rather limiting, with (2), for example,
effectively removing electron-phonon or spin-phonon coupling from consideration and (3) removing phonon-phonon
scattering (anharmonicity). However, the relatively simple, closed-form, of the harmonic solution is the starting point
for perturbation theory to consider more complex and interesting interactions.
The importance and generality of the adiabatic or Born-Oppenheimer approximation, make it worthy of further mention.
Formally, it amounts to assuming the problem is separable, with the full wave function, a function of all nuclear
coordinates, {R i } and all electronic coordinates{r } ,rewritten as a product of functions of the nuclear positions andjone of the electronic positions at a particular set of nuclear coordinates Ψ ( R, r ) → χ ( R )ψ R ( r ) . The nuclear
positions then are just taken as parameters for the second function. This amounts to assuming the electrons arrange
themselves instantly to accommodate any nuclear configuration or that the nuclei move slowly compared to electronic
time scales so that the electrons follow the nuclei adiabatically - and then leads to simplification of the equations of
motion. This simplification is used in almost all calculations of vibrational behavior, especially those described in
section 3, and is generally a good approximation. However, the approximation can fail, with specific examples
including doped graphene (Lazzeri & Mauri, 2006), MgB2 (Boeri, et al., 2005)(d’Astuto, et al., 2016) or boron doped
diamond (Caruso, et al., 2017). In general, one might expect the adiabatic approximation can fail when changes inelectron energy by phonon-scale energies correspond to significant changes in Fermi-surface shape, e.g. when electron
bands have flat regions near the Fermi-surface - or at very high temperatures where thermal energies are comparable toelectronic levels.
For the harmonic approximation, the Hamiltonian is

H=

∑
d

Pd 2 1+
2M d 2ud Φd'd 'u'd ' (24)∑d'd '



where Pd is the momentum operator for the d 'th atom and Φ d'd ' are the 3x3 real-valued inter-atomic force

constant matrices linking displacements of the atom 'd ' to the force on atom d .* They are the second-derivative of
the potential function, and generally would be considered a function of all atomic and electronic coordinates (and,likewise, the full Hamiltonian would include electronic kinetic energies), but (see, e.g., (Maradudin, 1974)),
assumptions (1) and (2) above allow reducing the problem to just as a function of the nuclear coordinates whileassumption (3) allows truncation at second order. The corresponding equations of motion are d = −
Mdu

∑


Φd'd ' u'd '

(25)

'd '

Considering solutions to be of the form of a superposition of normal modes with well-defined periodicities, q, andfrequencies shows that the sufficient condition for a solution is




 
ω q2 eq = Dq eq(26)

where e q is the vector made up of the r 3-vectors e qd which give the direction, and relative phase, of the motion ofeach of the r atoms in the primitive cell.

The dynamical matrix, D q is the Fourier-transform of the force constant

matrix and is made up of 3x3 matrices for each possible pair of atoms within the primitive cell, D qdd ' given by*

We use boldface quantities to indicate 3-vectors (in either real space or reciprocal space) and dual arrow superscripts to indicate matrices such as!
!

Φ ℓdℓ ' d ' . In some cases, such as the eigenvector matrix for all atoms, e q a single vector over a boldface quantity indicates an extended 1,

dimension matrix of many vectors

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Dqdd ' =∑1
Md Md'

−iq• r −rΦd'd ' e (  ' ) (27)'The  dependence has been dropped on the left since, in the limit of a large crystal, the sum is independent of  . In theusual way, this reduces to an eigenvalue problem with 3r solutions at any fixed q, which we index by j=1...3r.
(sometimes a subscript "s" is used to represent the combined index " qj "). One notes that the reality of the force-





*

2

constants insures D is Hermitian D qdd ' = D qd ' d and therefore the eigenvalues, ω q , are real, with the eigenfrequencies
either real or purely imaginary. Imaginary eigenfrequencies correspond to blow up of the atomic motion with time
indicating that the lattice is unstable: in the harmonic limit, a lattice is only stable if all eigenvalues of the dynamical
matrix are real.
Eigenpolarizations corresponding to non-degenerate eigenvalues will be orthogonal, while those for degenerate
eigenvalues can be chosen orthogonal, so one usually takes

∑e

qjd

*

• e qj 'd = δ j, j ' .

The eigenpolarizations alsod3r

satisfy the closure relation

∑e e

α * β
qjd qjd ' = δ d ,d ' δ α , βwhere the superscripts refer to components in an orthonormal

j =1



*

coordinate system. Noting that the reality of the force-constant matrices gives that D − q = D q so that the eigenvalues at

{ } {

}

*

q and at -q are the same, ω qj = ω − qj , and we can choose the eigenvectors so that e − qjd = e qjd .
Acoustic modes may be identified by investigation of the eigenmodes of the solution either using a perturbation series
expansion for small wave vectors (section 26 of (Born & Huang, 1954)), or considering symmetry properties(Maradudin, 1974)): in general there are 3 modes for which the frequency approaches zero linearly at small wave
vectors ( q → 0 ). They obeyω qj ∝ qe qjd ∝ M d uqj
2

F1p (τ ,qj ) ∝1
Q • uqj
ω qj

2

Fτ

2

⎛
⎞
⎜ Acoustic Modes, ⎟
⎜
⎟
q →0
⎜
⎟
−W
iτ •r ⎟⎜F ≡fd (τ ) e
e
⎜⎝ τ
⎟⎠
d

∑

d

(28)

d

where uj is a vector giving the direction of motion, which for these modes at small q, is the same for all atoms(independent of d). The third equation just is from substituting the second into eqn. (18) for the 1-phonon structure
factor. This shows that the intensity of these modes scales as the product of the structure factor of the nearby Braggreflection, Fτ , and a term related to the mode polarization. These modes are the acoustic modes, where all atoms
oscillate in phase near q=0. The remaining (3r-3) modes are referred to as optical modes. Materials with only one
atom per primitive cell, true Bravais lattices, without a basis, have no optical modes. (Practically, near the Brillouinzone boundary the polarizations for optical and acoustic modes can appear very similar). Depending of the version ofthis paper, supplemental materials may be available showing examples of phonon motions including a longitudinal
acoustic mode (ESM1), a transverse acoustic (ESM2) mode, a longitudinal optic mode (ESM3) and a transverse optic
mode (ESM4), all near zone center (q=0 or Γ). Finally, we note that for acoustic modes with !ω qj ≪ k BT , the crosssection or measured mode intensity can be expected to scale roughly as 1 q 2 ∝ 1( !ω ) , where one factor of2

qj

1 !ω qj comes from the structure factor, above, and the other from the Bose occupation factor in thermal equilibrium.
In addition to the above relations, the phonon eigenvectors are strongly constrained by the symmetry of the lattice, as!

reflected, in the present discussion, in the symmetry of the force constant matrices, Φ ℓdℓ ' d ' . This may be investigatedusing a group-theoretical approach and, practically, can allow large simplifications of the dynamical matrix, which,when recognized, can simplify algebra, reduce the time for computations, and give constraints on allowable atomic
motions. Further discussion about symmetry and its impact on phonons can be found in, e.g., (Maradudin & Vosko,
1968), (Lax, 2012). The web page (Bilbao Crystallographic Server) is also a useful tool. We note that even a very

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simple nearest-neighbor (NN) or next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) force-constant model can be useful to get a rough ideaof what the phonon eigenvectors may look like.
Finally in this section, we note that it can sometimes be useful to consider the contribution of different atoms to a given
phonon mode. Looking directly at eqn (18), this is immediately seen to be related to the magnitude of the phonon
eigenvector e qjd , possibly scaled by the atomic mass. However, it can be useful to make the relation more formally,
especially when the primitive cell may be large. One then sometimes discusses a phonon "participation ratio" or"inverse phonon participation ratio (IPR)" (see (Hafner & Krajci, 1993)(Finkemeier & von Niessen, 1998) andreferences therein) given as⎛⎞2
Pqj = ⎜
e qjd M d ⎟
⎜⎝
⎟⎠
d

∑

⎛
4⎞
= ⎜r
e qjd ⎟
⎜⎝
⎟⎠
d

∑

−1

2

⎛
⎞
4
2
e qjd M d ⎟
⎜r
⎜⎝
⎟⎠
d

∑

⎛ Monatomic ⎞⎜⎝ Sample ⎟⎠where the second relationship uses the orthonormality of the eigenvectors. If, for example, a mode consists of motionof a single atom only in the r-atom primitive cell, one has P=1/r, while if the motions are uniformly spread across all
atoms, P will tend toward unity. While being somewhat ad-hoc, this can be a useful way to identify possible
localization of modes in complex materials such as cage compounds (e.g. clathrates, skutterudites), quasi-crystals, or
glasses (some other metrics are also given in the references of (Finkemeier & von Niessen, 1998) that, e.g., include thedistances between moving atoms).

2.10 The Real-Space Force Constant Matrix & Acoustic Sum Rule
The real space force constant matrix of eqns. (24)-(27) (also called the Interatomic Force Constant (IFC) matrix) takeson added importance as a transferrable version of the results of phonon calculations. Most crystal-based ab-initio
methods calculate phonons on a small grid of selected momentum transfers in the first Brillouin zone, as eachcalculation often requires significant CPU time. This is extended to arbitrary momentum transfers by Fourierinterpolation through calculation of the real-space force constant matrices Φ d'd ' of eqn. (27). Thus, the real-spaceforce constant matrices (essentially an extended Born-von-Karman model) become the portable form of the phonon
calculation result, allowing the frequencies and eigenvectors of modes to be calculated for arbitrary momentum
transfers. A similar matrix can be defined for estimating the electron-phonon line-width at arbitrary momentum
transfers.

The Φ d'd ' matrices, as noted in the previous section, must obey a host of symmetry relations based on the lattice
structure. Of these, the invariance of the problem to a uniform translation of the lattice as a whole, as applicable to allmaterials, gives an often-quoted condition on the force constant matrices, the acoustic sum rule. Namely∑!""
Φ ℓdℓ'd ' = 0

l 'd '⎛ Acoustic Sum Rule ⎞⎜⎝ Translational Invariance ⎟⎠ (29)or the sum over force-constant matrices for one atom with all other atoms should be zero in all components. Thiseffectively defines the self-term of the force constant matrix, Φ dd , and also ensures that the acoustic mode
frequencies approach 0 as q approaches zero. If one attempts to manually modify the force-constant matrices, as is
discussed in some of the subsequent sections of this paper, one must both preserve the symmetry of the lattice, andinsure that eqn (29) is always satisfied by appropriate modification of the self-terms.

2.11 Practical (Harmonic) Phonons
There are a variety of practical issues that we would now like to introduce as regards phonon measurements, including
constraints on where to measure, some nomenclature issues, the idea of anti-crossings, and some comments on therelative intensities of the terms in the phonon expansion.

12.11.1 One-Phonon Cross Section, Transverse and Longitudinal Geometries, Q vs. q
The form of the one-phonon cross section, eqns. (17-19), is relatively simple in principle, but the dependence on thephased sum of the components of the phonon eigenvectors in the direction of the total momentum transfer adds
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complexity, effectively providing selection rules for observable modes. Generally, for considering single-phonon
scattering, one decomposes the total momentum transfer, Q, into a sum (eqn. (19)), Q = τ + q where τ is a vector of
the reciprocal lattice (sometimes also called G or H) and q is in the first Brillouin zone and is called the propagation
direction of the phonon mode. The general requirement for non-zero intensity at Q is that the mode must have some
net component of the atomic motions parallel to Q - but estimating the intensity without detailed calculations isgenerally not straightforward. Considering the discussion of section 2.9, a generally reliable statement is that, near zone
center, q=0, the intensity of the acoustic modes will scale as the intensity of the nearby Bragg reflection. Similar
considerations suggest that, for simple materials, the optic modes, where atoms move out of phase with each other,scale inversely with nearby Bragg peaks. (e.g. going to a forbidden Bragg reflection may be a good way to measure an
optic mode, but, while it may be tempting to remove possible elastic backgrounds, it is a poor way of measuring
acoustic modes unless one is specifically interested in violations of eqn. (28)) However, as materials become more
complex, or as one moves away from zone center, phonon intensities can quickly become non-obvious and calculations
are needed both to determine where a mode of interest may be strong, and where less-interesting modes may be weakand not obscure the mode of interest.
The terms "longitudinal" and "transverse" are often used to refer to phonon modes, and/or measurement geometries.
For modes, the terms refer to the directions of atomic motion, e qjd (for some j and q) relative to the propagation
direction, q: an acoustic shear mode is transverse, while the compression or pressure mode is longitudinal. (Movies oflongitudinal modes may be available in ESM1 and ESM3 while transverse modes may be available in ESM2 andESM4). For measurement geometries the terminology refers to direction of the reduced momentum transfer, q, relative
to the total momentum transfer, Q, or, more precisely, relative to the nearest reciprocal lattice vector τ : a longitudinalgeometry has q parallel to τ, and a transverse geometry has q perpendicular to τ. If one wants to observe a transverse
phonon mode, a transverse geometry is generally favorable, and, likewise a longitudinal geometry for a longitudinalmode. Most phonon modes, however, can not be classified as simply longitudinal or transverse. Especially, as one
moves away from the center of the Brillouin zone, or as materials become complex, or low dimensional, or if one
moves off of high-symmetry directions, mode polarizations become complicated. In some cases it can be clearer torefer to modes by their eigenvectors (e.g. plane polarized, c-axis polarized), without reference to the direction of
propagation. In other cases, the atomic motions may not be linear, but circular or elliptical (e.g. modes with complex
polarization vectors) so are not simply related to a real (linear) momentum transfer (for example, this can be seen in theiron pnictides where the lack of reflection symmetry of the As locations about the plane of Fe atoms leads quickly toelliptical motions as one moves away from the gamma point. A movie of this can be seen in ESM11).

2.11.2 On the intensity of the terms in the phonon expansion.
The various terms in the phonon expansion scale as the product of a structure factor, the Debye-Waller factor and thethermal occupation factors. To a first approximation, the Debye-Waller factor can often be neglected, as, especially at
low temperature, it is usually near to unity and independent of atom. This means that first estimates of phonon
intensities are often done with Wd =0, the more so as calculation of Wd requires integration over the Brillouin zone.
However, in the presence of soft modes that may preferentially lead to large (low frequency) motions of specific atoms,
Wd can become atom dependent and require some care*. Also, as Q or T is increased, Wd can increase quickly. In
those cases, the one-phonon intensity will be reduced, and the Debye-Waller factor can easily become atom dependent,
so the intensity of specific modes or motions can be suppressed. Increasing Wd is also generally an indication thatmulti-phonon contributions become stronger.
The structure factors F1 p F2 p , etc., generally scale as Q2n where n is the number of phonons involved in the scattering,,
and will increase with Q, until the exponential die off of the atomic form factors or Debye-Waller factor begins todominate. Practically, one finds product of the magnitude of the momentum transfer and the atomic form factor,
Q f (Q ) , which determines the scale of F1 p , tends, for most atoms, to increase out to Q ~ 10Å-1, or so, before first
flattening out and then falling off. The 1 ω j in front of the structure factors can be seen to come from the amplitudeof the phonon motion - large amplitude (or, equivalently, given phonon energies are quantized, low frequency) motions
lead to larger scattering. The temperature dependence appears in the occupation factors: modes with !ω j < k BT (26meV at T=300K) will be enhanced, increasing as 1 ω j

2, while the signal at !ω < −k BT will be strongly reduced, andthe occupation factor for !ω > k BT approaches unity.

*

For example, in the case of CaAlSi the presence of a soft mode introduces large differences in the Debye-Waller factor for different atoms, withfactors of two easily possible at room temperature (Kuroiwa, et al., 2008).

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Finally, investigation of scaling of the terms with the number of primitive cells shows that the one-phonon intensity,and higher order terms as well, scale as the number of unit cells, N  (The N  scaling is explicit in the 1-phonon term,
and for the 2-phonon term is implied by the double-sum over q, q' with only one delta-function). This is in contrast to2

the Bragg scattering which scales as N  (Though, as visible in eqn. 23, the Bragg peaks narrow as N  is increasedso that the scattered intensity is really being concentrated into a narrow angular range). Given that all terms discussed
are coherent (in the sense of section 2.5) it is clear the remarkable scaling of the Bragg intensity is due to having
coherent and elastic scattering from a periodic medium: all three are needed to get the enhancement.

2.11.3 Anti-crossings
Often the frequency of two dispersing phonon modes
can become close and even tend to cross at somemomentum transfers. If the modes have the same
symmetry, then this will create an "avoided crossing",
or an "anti-crossing" in the dispersion, where thedispersion curves repel each other. It is characteristicof such an anti-crossing that the mode polarizations will
become mixed near the point of close approach, and that,while the mode frequencies will not cross, the modepolarizations do cross. Figure 4 shows an example ofthis for a calculation of phonons in CaAlSi where a soft
optical mode (corresponding to anti-phase motions of Al
and Si along the c-axis) has an avoided crossing withthe longitudinal acoustic (LA) mode (essentially inphase motions of all atoms). The intensity calculated
Figure 4. Example of an anti-crossing (after (Kuroiwa, etfor the (0 0 L) zone (indicated by the height of the bars
al., 2008)). Vertical bars are proportional to the calculated
in the figure) tracks the polarization: the optical mode
phonon intensity in at the indicated momentum transfer.
pattern, essentially equal and opposite motions Si and
See text for discussion. (Note intensities are not plotted for
Al atoms along the c-axis has weak intensity and jumps
the acoustic mode at L<~4.02)
across the gap: the low energy mode at zone boundary(0 0 4.5) shows the same anti-phase motion character as the optical mode at zone center. This anti-phase motion leads
to correspondingly weak intensity for momentum transfers that are purely in the c-axis (00L) direction. Movies of therelevant mode motions are shown in ESM5 and ESM6 for the low and high energy modes, respectively near Γ=(004)
and ESM7 and ESM8 for the low and high energy modes near to zone boundary (0 0 4.5). ESM9 and ESM10 show thetwo modes near the anti-crossing (0 0 4.22). The useful rule is then that frequencies can anti-cross, while polarizations(and intensities in IXS) cross, and the polarization mixes in the region of close approach.

2.11.4 Two-Phonon Scattering
Two phonon scattering is the largest intrinsic source of background in most IXS measurements since incoherent(Compton) scattering occurs on large, > eV, scales, out of the experimental energy window, while multiple scattering is
usually prevented by the large intrinsic x-ray absorption cross-section. Equations (20-21) give the magnitude of theeffect within a harmonic model - thus the relative contribution of the two-phonon scattering, as compared to the onephonon intensity, is directly calculable. It scales as the product of phonon contributions at two different reduced
momentum transfers within the first Brillouin zone, but, with polarization dot products (and form factors) as calculated
at the total momentum transfer, Q.
Figure 5a shows a measurement of the scattering from MgB2 where the two-phonon contribution leads to a peak in the
spectrum that can not be explained by, otherwise, extremely good calculations: the calculation of the two-phonon
contribution gives, as shown, a peak with the correct energy and intensity. In this case, the contribution was importantbecause the peak mimics the E2g mode that is so important for superconductivity. Figure 5b shows the temperaturedependence of the two-phonon contribution, which, in detail, can have a complex structure. In general, the high-energy
part from two-phonon creation is always present, even at low temperature, and weakly temperature dependent until high24Figure 5. Two-Phonon contributions in MgB2 (after (Baron, et al., 2007)). The left panel, (a) shows data and calculations atroom temperature near Q= (0 0 3.32). The two-phonon-contribution, with no free parameters, scales to exactly explain the
additional peak at about 65 meV. (b) shows calculations on log scale for several temperatures for Q=(0 0 3.5) covlved with a
1.5 meV lorenzian. Note that the result at 300K is shown twice, once with the inclusion of the 1-phonon intensity. See thediscussion in the text. (Panel (a) of the figure is Copyright (2007) by the American Physical Society)temperatures are reached. Meanwhile the near-zero energy part is from simultaneous creation and annihilation andincreases rapidly with temperature. It also usually has a finite (non-zero) line width. There can be additional structureand for the particular case of MgB2, the main contribution to the 65 meV two-phonon peak was found to be
simultaneous excitation of two TA modes, which each have energies of about 30 meV near zone boundary. Practically,
it is worth noting that while often it is possible to reasonably estimate the Debye-Waller factor from a calculation
including ~104 or ~105 points that are randomly distributed over the Brillouin zone, good estimation of the two-phononpart typically requires more, >~106 points to avoid artifacts. Possible a more judicious choice of points in the zone
(similar to that in (Gilat & Raubenheimer, 1966) or (Monkhorst & Pack, 1976)) could reduce the number of points
needed and speed calculations.

2.12 Non-Harmonic Phonons
The assumption of harmonic lattice behavior is useful to introduce the normal modes and the phonon expansion.
However, solids are not harmonic - with some degree of non-harmonic behavior needed, for example, to account forthermal expansion, finite heat conductivity, and any case where the phonons may interact with themselves (phononphonon scattering) or with other systems (electron-phonon coupling, spin-phonon coupling). Thus, in fact, most of theinteresting properties of materials currently under investigation involve non-harmonicity. (As mentioned above, wewill use the term "non-harmonicity" to refer to any process beyond the harmonic model, and "anharmonicity" to refer
specifically to the effects of phonon-phonon scattering). In principle, non-harmonicity can lead to modification of thephonon energies, line shapes, and even polarizationsx. It also can add interference terms to the phonon expansion, eqns.
(14) (15), as the conditions for the re-arrangement of terms using the Baker-Hausdorf lemma are violated[(Ambegaokar, et al., 1965) while, for experimental work, see (Meyer, et al., 1976) and references therein]. However,
the most well-known effect of non-harmonicity is a shift in phonon energies and an increase in phonon line width. This
leads, as a first approximation, to the damped-harmonic oscillator (DHO) line shape as given in this context by [(Fak &Dorner, 1992, 1997)] and as we will discuss here. We consider this from the point of view of Green's functions, butnote equivalent expressions can also be derived via rate-equations, where one explicitly considers the pumping of thephonons by an external system and vice versa and then applying the Kramers-Kronig relation (see the appendix of(Allen, et al., 1997)).
Considering the strongest, one-phonon, term, non-harmonicity may be introduced through the phonon self-energy: the

( )

( )

phonon Green's function is modified from the non-interacting one, DQj ω , to the interacting one, DQj ω , by the0( )inclusion of a self-energy term ΠQj ω (electrons are described by are G, Σ and phonons by D, Π similar to,(Mahan, 2000) and, by writing Q instead of q, we allow for the possibility of coupling to some perturbation that doesx

Most work, including that here, emphasizes the effect of non-harmonicity on lineshapes and frequency, neglecting the effect on polarization.
However, such effects must be present, if only in that a non-harmonic shift in the frequency may move a mode closer or further from an anti-crossing,leading to a change in polarization. One would also expect such effects to appear more generally, but the usual treatment separating the intensity andthe line-shape does not facilitate its discussion. Lovesey, (Lovesey, 1984), also suggests that direct non-harmonic effects on polarization tend tovanish at high symmetry points of the Brillouin zone.

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not

obey

the

DQj (ω ) = 2ω qj

periodicity(ω − ω
2

2
qj

of

the

lattice).

The)

interacting

Green'sfunctionthenbecomes− 2ω qj Π Qj (ω ) . The self-energy is causal, obeying a Kramers-Kronig relation, withthe real part even and the imaginary part being odd. So we then writeΠQj (ω ) ≡ Δ Qj (ω ) − i γ Qj (ω )

ω
ω qj

(30)

where Δ (ω ) and γ (ω ) are both real and even functions of frequency. The dynamic structure factor is proportional tothe imaginary part of the Greens function (cf. eqn (3)) so that the dynamic structure factor becomesS ( Q, ω )1p = N ∑ ∑ F (τ ,q, j ) δ
2

1p

q

Q−q,τ LQj

(ω ,T ) (31)jwhere the line shape function

LQj (ω ,T ) =11−
π 1− e ω /kT

4 ω ω qj γ Qj (ω )(ω − Ω (ω ) ) + 4ω γ (ω )
2

2 2

Qj

2

(32)
2

Qj

has replaced the sum of delta functions in eqn (17) and the shifted frequency is given byΩQj (ω ) = ω qj 2 + 2ω qj Δ Qj (ω )2≈ ⎡⎣ω qj + Δ Qj (ω ) ⎤⎦2(

Δ Qj  ω qj

)

(33)

( )

In the limit where Π (ω )  ω qj these terms have the largest effect when ω ≈ ω qj with Δ ω qj the frequency shift of

( )

( )

the mode and γ ω qj the half-width at half maximum (HWHM) of the phonon line. Thus, these quantities, Δ ω qj( ) , are often interpreted as the effect of screening of the phonon mode by the relevant perturbation and theand γ ω qj

(inverse) lifetime of the phonon mode to decay into the perturbing system (e.g. other phonons, or electron-hole pairs).
In this context, the general dependence of Δ and γ on the probe frequency, ω , may not be immediately obvious (whyshould the lifetime of the phonon depend on the probe frequency?), however, one needs to recall that, in this frequency
domain picture, one is really, steady-state, gently pumping the entire system at the probe frequency (the phonon is not
being excited and then freely decaying) and, in that context, the pump frequency certainly affects the response of thesystem. However, often, as a first approximation, γ and Ω are taken as constants, which case, the lineshape L, is a boseweighted damped harmonic oscillator (DHO) function (Fak & Dorner, 1992, 1997), Finally we note that the same
DHO lineshape is often used in the analysis of liquid response with the assumption that Δ Qj (ω ) = γ Qj 2 ω Qj or
2

2

2

2

Ω Qj = ω Qj + γ Qj .

More generally, one can investigate Δ and γ using the Kramers-Kronig relation. Some relevant aspects of this can beseen by taking a very simple model (see also (Gunnarsson & Rösch, 2008)) having the line width as constant below
some cutoff frequency:⎧γγ (ω ') = ⎨⎩0

ω ' < ωc ⎫⎬ (34)
otherwise ⎭which, via the Kramers-Kronig transform, gives the energy shift26Δ (ω ) =

2

ω qjπ

ωc

∫

P dω ' γ (ω ')0ω '2
ω 2 − ω '2= −γ

ωc 2 ⎛
ω−1 ⎡ ω ⎤ ⎞ (35)1−tanh
⎢ ω ⎥⎟
ω qj π ⎜⎝ ω c⎣ c ⎦⎠≈ −γ

ωc 2
ω qj π[ω  ω c ]In this model, the phonon is softened by the interaction, and, given that the cutoff energy can be large, for, e.g.
electronic interactions, the softening can be much larger than line width: the coupling serves primarily to screen theinteraction, with the ratio of the softening to the broadening being given by the bandwidth of the coupling over thephonon energy. Thus Kohn anomalies (Kohn, 1959) (Stedman, et al., 1967) which occur at nesting vectors of the
Fermi-surface where phonons couple strongly to the electronic system, are most often observed as changes in dispersion,and not line width (though, also, energy shifts are easier to measure than line-widths).
It is interesting to look at the integrated intensity of a broadened phonon. In a harmonic model, after correction for theBose temperature factor, the integrated intensity of a mode responds only to the phonon polarization, and, at higher
temperatures, the Debye-Waller factor as given in eqn (18).
However, in the event there is significant nonharmonicity, it is not obvious what may be conserved. Consideration of a series of models for non-harmonicity of an
isolated phonon that each satisfy the Kramers-Kronig relation shows that, in general the integral of the lineshape (eqn.
32) remains constant to a the level of ~1% and better than 10% for even extreme non-harmonicity. Thus the integrated
phonon intensity, in the limit where anharmonicity does not affect the phonon polarization, is reasonably conserved (atleast at the level of typical measurements of phonon intensity). In the limit of strong phonon-phonon (anharmonic)
coupling, however, this should be reexamined.
It is worth noting the there are cases where more complicated self-energy functions have been calculated. These
include, for example, the effect of electron-phonon coupling on phonons with an energy near the superconducting gap(Allen, et al., 1997) which leads, e.g., to asymmetric tails or near splitting of a phonon line (see the discussion in section
5.2.3), and the more complicated self energies from anharmonicity as can become more important at higher temperature(e.g. (May, et al., 1998)). The DHO lineshape of eqn (32) is an excellent approximation for many simple cases, but realself energies require understanding the full phonon decay path, including coupling to other systems, and other phonons,so are complicated. Given this complexity, and the fact that in many cases a phonon still mostly appears as a welldefined peak in S ( Q, ω ) with the self-energy contributions being relatively small, the complex shape of the self-energy
is often ignored. Possibly, like with multi-phonon terms, the relative cleanliness of IXS data, will allow self energies tobe investigated more thoroughly and routinely.

2.13 Detailed Balance, Symmetrizing, and Scaling
Inspection of equation (17) above, and the conditions on the eigenvectors will show the positive and negative energy(Stokes and anti-Stokes) sides of the S ( Q, ω ) spectra are not independent, with the anti-Stokes side being a lowerintensity copy of the Stokes side. This is a general property of a sample in thermal equilibrium, where the population of
dynamical states depends on the energy of the state and the temperature, and is formally expressed as the detailedbalance condition for S ( Q, ω ) (see, e.g., chapter 4 of (Squires, 1978)) usually given as

S ( Q,−ω ) = e−!ωβ S ( −Q, ω )(36)which relates the intensity of the energy loss side of the measured spectrum to the energy gain part of the spectrum forthe opposite momentum transfer. IXS, however, most easily measures the energy gain and loss at fixed momentum
transfer, so, for IXS, the more interesting symmetry relation is between positive and negative frequency at fixed Q. A
moments consideration, as noted by (Squires, 1978), shows that eqn. (36) applies also for positive Q on the right-handside, if the material is either disordered or centrosymmetric. *

(

)

(

S Q,−ω = e −!ωβ S Q,ω

⎛

or ⎞

Disordered Materials(37)) ⎜⎝ Centrosymmetric
Crystals⎟⎠*

In a previous version of this review, a result of Lovesy (Lovesey, 1984), that negligible absorption is also a sufficient condition for eqn (37) to hold
was mentioned. However, it is only correct for Bravais lattices, and is not true in general.

27This relation is useful experimentally as an internal check on the temperature of a sample - though care must be taken as
regards possible effects of finite energy-resolution (tails of strong peaks arising from finite energy resolution do notobey detailed balance - one must do a resolution de-convolution in some fashion before applying detailed balance). If
the temperature for a sample in thermal equilibrium is well known, the author has found that violation of this symmetry
can be taken as an indication of experimental error†.
Given the simplicity of the detailed balance relation, one sometimes considers a "classical" or symmetrized version of
the spectra,

S cl ( Q, ω ) = e−!ωβ /2 S ( Q, ω )

(38a)

or

1− e−!ωβ
S ( Q, ω ) =S ( Q, ω )
!ωβ
cl

(38b)

Generally, such symmetrized versions are most useful for comparing measured spectra of liquids or glasses tocalculations (e.g. molecular dynamics results with classical trajectories) which are symmetric about zero energy transfer.
The first equation, (38a), is reasonable to describe uncorrelated motions of ideal gasses or perfect fluids (e.g. theclassical response of an perfect fluid, based on eqn. (10), is a Gaussian centered at zero energy transfer) or samples athigh temperatures or high momentum transfers where multi-phonon scattering is dominant. However, the choice ofsymmetrizing function is not unique, and the second equation, (38b), corresponds to the case when the response isdominated by single phonons, as can be seen from comparing to eqn. (32), and is often more generally useful, even for
liquids. The two do deviate significantly from each-other as !ωβ increases above 1. Other forms can also be
considered (as is evident from considering an expansion of incoherent scattering in terms of the phonon density of states
where each order of multi-phonon contribution has a different temperature scaling, (Sjölander, 1958)), however, the twolisted are the more common ones. Additional discussion about the non-classical nature of S ( Q, ω ) can be found inchapter 3 of (Lovesey, 1984).
A related issue is the practical comparison of phonon spectra at different temperatures. Here we only point out thatwhile one can attempt to apply scaling, e.g. from eqns. (17) or (37) or (38b) for single phonons, there is no general(model independent) way to do this if multi-phonon contributions are significant. Even in the case that single phonon
response dominates, one needs to care for the effects of tails of the resolution function. Practically, in the one-phonon
limit, comparison of spectra different temperatures can be done by fitting the spectra with a series of resolutionfunctions and then scaling the intensity of each function to a common temperature (essentially: de-convolution, scale tocommon T, re-convolution, compare).

3. Calculations of Atomic Dynamics
Calculation of phonons, especially in crystalline materials with more than one atom per primitive cell, are needed both
before an experiment to understand where to measure, and afterwards to interpret the results. The former bears
emphasis, as, too often, people focus only on the periodicity of interest (i.e.: little q, in the first Brillouin zone), and do
not appreciate the complexity of the eigenvectors which have a huge impact on the choice of the total momentum
transfer, Q, where the measurement takes place. Given this complexity, calculations are required before an experiment,with the only possible exception being measurements of acoustic modes near to zone center. Calculations for
disordered materials are less crucial before an experiment, since the measurements are fundamentally one-dimensionalin Q, but they are still useful to interpret results. We describe first model calculations for crystalline materials, then abinitio approaches for crystalline solids, and then move to molecular dynamics, as may be used for both disordered andcrystalline materials. We also discuss where, practically, one seems to approach the limit of reliable calculations. Thissection is meant to briefly indicate calculations that are broadly available, and is not comprehensive.
Model calculations, with user-input parameters, are useful because they can be relatively simple and have parametersthat can be optimized to fit dispersion relations, or even spectra. They are usually also relatively fast. The Born-vonKarman (BvK) model, where one directly chooses the force constants (or matrices) over some limited range (nearest
neighbors, or next-nearest neighbors, etc.) is conceptually the simplest, a "ball and spring" model.
Assuming
appropriate care is taken to be consistent with the crystal symmetry, and to get a stable result, this sort of model can be
useful to get a first understanding of phonon behavior. A next level of sophistication is the addition of long-range†

In one case a sample with an interesting magnetic structure appeared to show such a violation, but the lack of symmetry in the spectra waseventually traced to a software bug in a counter card driver. The card was actually in use in in many places, but there were very few that used it at the
low rates of the IXS experiment, and, precisely in the low-rate region, the software error became noticeable.

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Coulomb interactions by placing charges on different atoms (ions), using a rigid ion model (where "rigid" is used in thesense of non-deformable, to be contrasted with the shell model mentioned presently). The 1/r Coulomb potential adds
complexity in that the sums are slowly (and not uniformly) convergent. However, Ewald's method can be applied* (seee.g. (Brüesch, 1982)(Gonze & Lee, 1997)). The long-range interaction can cause splitting between longitudinal andtransverse optical modes at zone center (LO-TO or Lydane-Sachs-Teller (LST) splitting), as is often observed in ionicinsulators. A next level of sophistication may be found in a shell model. Here one considers each atom or ion toconsist of a massive charged nucleus surrounded by a massless charged "shell"+ with the two coupled together by aspring (usually assumed to be isotropic). This introduces the possibility to dynamically polarize each lattice site. The
shell model does a surprisingly good job of fitting the dispersion of many materials including ionic insulators, covalentmaterials, and also metals, with relatively few free parameters. The parameters - e.g. charges on atoms, atomic
polarizabilities - are also, in principle, more physically motivated than choosing force constant matrices of the BvK
model, but practically, the best fit to phonon dispersion can lead to values outside the range of ones normal intuition.
Available shell model codes include OpenPhonon (Mirone), Unisoft (Eckhold, et al., 1987), and GULP (Gale, 1997).
While the number of free parameters can initially appear daunting, it is often possible to build on models that are
already published in the literature. There are also other models at a similar level - the deformation dipole model, thevalence overlap shell model, valence force model, the bond-charge model (see e.g. (Karo & Hardy, 1969)(Kunc & Bilz,
1976)(Brüesch, 1982)(L. J. Sham, 1974), and references therein) - which focus on different aspects of the problem. It
may be worth noting that, even in a harmonic limit, a model predicting a given dispersion is not unique: more than one
model can, in principle, generate the same dispersion. For example, a unitary transformation acting on the dynamical
matrix preserves eigenvalues or mode frequencies, but mixes polarizations (Leigh, et al., 1971).
Electronic structure codes allow an "ab-initio" approach to phonons by considering the forces on the atoms as being theresult of changes in electronic structure and system energy when atoms are displaced. These calculations most often
use pseudo-potentials, where only the outer electrons are explicitly considered, and also take advantage of the repeating
structure of a crystal - Bloch's theorem. "Direct" methods rely on calculating changes in energy, and resulting forces on
atoms, when atoms are explicitly displaced from the equilibrium positions. These can either be done considering
displacements of one atom at a time (small displacement method) or choosing specific phonon displacement patterns as
governed by symmetry conditions (frozen phonon method), and, in both cases, they can be built on repetitive calls to aconventional electronic structure code. The use of a primitive cell and Bloch's theorem, as is typical for thesecalculations, however, means that if one wants results away from q=0, displacements must be carried out using supercells. Proper inclusion of long-range forces for insulators also requires care. Generally available codes that allow direct
methods to be built on top of established electronic structure codes include Phon (Alfè, 2009) and Phonopy (Togo, et al.,2008). An alternative to the direct method is density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) as originally describedusing a plane wave-approach (Baroni, et al., 2001) but also be formulated for ultra-soft pseudo-potentials (e.g. PWscf)
and in a mixed basis approach (Heid & Bohnen, 1999). The DFPT approach builds a perturbation calculation for thephonons into the code, and can be applied at arbitrary momentum transfers without using super-cells. Generally
available (open source) codes include Quantum Espresso/PWscf (Giannozzi, et al., 2009) and ABINIT [(Gonze, et al.,2009)]. Others codes are available based on collaborative or financial agreements. One notes that both direct and
DFPT methods, by default, include the effect of electron-phonon coupling on the phonon frequencies for metals, as thecalculations are based on the changes of the electronic structure accompanying the atomic displacements. (In somecases the coupling may be may be significantly under-estimated, especially in correlated materials - see discussion in(Yin, et al., 2013)). Inclusion of anharmonicity due to phonon-phonon scattering is also possible.
Molecular Dynamics (MD) calculations, where one follows atomic trajectories over small time steps, offer anotherapproach to calculations of atomic dynamics. These can either be done with classical potentials that are static(configuration independent), or via ab-initio methods employing pseudo-potentials where the total effective potential isa function of the atomic configuration. MD methods are mostly employed for calculations of disordered materials suchas liquids, but, can also yield information about phonons in crystals. Due, in part, to the large computation timerequired, MD calculations are used much less for periodic materials than the above-mentioned crystal-based methods.
However, as computation speeds increase, MD methods may become more appealing, especially to consider phononphonon interactions (anharmonicity) (see discussion in (Hellman, et al., 2013) and, e.g., (Lan, et al., 2014) (Li, et al.,2014) for examples of simpler materials), dynamics close to melting points or other phase transitions, or for timedependent phenomena, such as valence fluctuations, or cases when a there may be fluctuations between different
structures (e.g. cage compounds with large cages). Examples of codes to convert from MD trajectory information tophonon dispersions via the velocity autocorrelation function, include (Ramirez-Cuesta, 2004; Hinsen, et al., 2012). A
recent code that uses a mixture of ab-initio direct (crystal) and MD calculations with a focus on anharmonicity is
ALAMODE (Tadano, et al., 2014).

*

As an exercise, one can replace the Ewald sum by calculating many force constant matrices out, say, to some range R - one finds, as might be
expected, the phonon behavior is generally well predicted until you approach small momentum transfers (~1/R).
+
This usage of the term "shell" in the shell model should not be confused with the shells (1st neighbors, second neighbors, etc.) sometimes referred
to in BvK models.

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From an experimentalist's viewpoint, for simple (uncorrelated, non-magnetic, low-T-stable) metals and insulators, thecrystal based ab-initio calculations can do an amazing job of estimating both dispersion and, for metals, electronphonon line-width. However, as soon as one adds correlation, they can fail. Another limit is that ab-initio calculations
are generally done at what is effectively zero temperature - thus high-temperature phases of materials can bechallenging, though, sometimes, it is possible to gain information by forcing the atomic configuration to that of thehigher temperature structure (e.g. not relaxing the calculation) or other methods of achieving finite temperatures((Souvatzis, et al., 2009)(Hellman, et al., 2011)(Chen, et al., 2014)). Finally, the methods discussed above all rely on the
adiabatic approximation, and while this is generally good, it can fail as noted in section 2.9, and then more complex
calculations (e.g. time dependent density functional theory) may be needed. Here we should point out that there is alsoa "multicomponent" version of density functional theory, where the nuclear coordinates are also treated as variables
much like the electronic wave functions (Kreibich & Gross, 2001), which then allows DFT without the BornOppenheimer approximation. Returning to the general issue, one summarizes by saying that, for simple, non-correlatedmaterials, without phase transitions, or magnetism, ab-initio pseudo-potential calculations often do an excellent job of
estimating phonon dispersion and electron-phonon line-width. For other materials, special efforts still need to be made,and, in many cases, especially with correlated materials, the differences between calculation and measurement remain
significant, with one particular area of present interest being the interaction of magnetism, and especially fluctuating(para-)magnetism with lattice dynamics (see, e.g., the sections on the iron pnictides 5.4.5) (Murai, et al., 2016) (Pradip,
et al., 2016)(Tóth, et al., 2016). A recent review focusing on the status of calculations of paramagnetic materials is(Abrikosov, et al., 2016).

Figure 6. Optimization of a model for phonons in PrFeAsO1-y by modifying nearest-neighbor force constant matrices. Leftshows the fits to the spectra, while the change in the reduced chi-squared for all spectra is shown at right for the original ab-initio
matrices, an improvement were the in-plane component of the iron-arenic bond is softened and a model where all nearest-neighbor(NN) interactions are optimized. No two-phonon contribution is included. Based on data from (Fukuda, et al., 2011) and (Baron,
et al, unpublished)

Finally, we note that it is possible to modify the force constant matrices from the ab-initio methods in an attempt to fit
measured dispersion (similar to what has been done for model calculations). This has been done, e.g., to try tounderstand the softening of the modes in iron-arsenide superconductors (Fukuda, et al., 2008, 2011). However, thecleanliness of the IXS spectra, also offers, in principle, the opportunity to go further and fit the full spectra to develop
an optimized microscopic model of the vibrations that, e.g., then might be used to precisely calculate other parameters.
Figure 6, shows such an attempt to fit the PrFeAsO1-y by relaxing all nearest neighbor force-constant matrices (subject
to appropriate symmetry conditions and, especially, the acoustic sum rule). Improvement with modeling is possible.
However, it quickly becomes clear that, at least near room temperature, the 2-phonon contribution can not be neglected,
which, because that contribution requires an integral over momentum space, then requires significant computational
resources.

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4. IXS Spectrometers
4.1 Spectrometer Layout and Design Issues
Understanding the design of IXS spectrometers is important on, at least, two levels: (1) the design concepts andimplementation directly shape the practice and interpretation of measurements across the field and (2) the underlying
optical principles determine the limits of the method. The first is relevant to anyone either reading about results from,or thinking to participate in, IXS experiments, while the second is important for an informed dialogue about expanding
the boundaries of the method. The following section discusses spectrometer design with the goal of indicating themain conceptual issues that arise in such a design - we do not discuss the detailed design of specific components. The
use of a high-resolution spectrometer was discussed in section 1.2: it is essentially a 4-cricle x-ray diffractometer withan energy-scan option, conceptually rather similar to a neutron triple-axis spectrometer (except simpler+). A schematicof the main components was shown in figure 2 and an overview of operation is presented there as well. Energy scans
are usually done by fixing the analyzer energy and changing the incident beam energy (scanning the HRM), as this iseasier than the reverse, because the analyzers tend to be larger and harder to scan, and, often, one has an array ofanalyzer crystals: scanning a single monochromator is easier than scanning an array of analyzers. The result of suchscan is a spectrum that is directly proportional to S ( Q, ω ) . (Measurement as a function of momentum transfer, with
fixed energy transfer is possible, but not often done*).
Spectrometer design hinges on a variety of issues that we describe quickly here, and then re-visit in more detail after
introduction of dynamical diffraction. Specific issues include the choice of high-resolution monochromator (HRM)(backscattering or in-line), the focusing, the clear aperture around the sample, and the type of analyzer optics (sphericalor post-sample-collimation, PSC) and the number of analyzers. The choices made at different facilities reflect a
combination of the constraints and expertise and interests at each facility. Issues and impact are listed in table 4, andare discussed both in the present section, and, somewhat, revisited in section 4.8 in comparing spherical backscattering
analyzers (SAs) and post-sample collimation PSC (optics).

Design Issue
High Resolution Monochromator(HRM)
Focusing
Sample Clear Aperture
Analyzer Setup

ImpactBeamline Layout
Flexibility(Scan Range)
Minimum Sample Size
Q, E Resolution
Sample Clear Aperture
Sample Environments
Energy Resolution
Energy Resolution
Parallelization
X-Ray Energy

Options
Single Backscattering
In-LineCompoundSingle-Element
Spherical Backscattering
PSC optics

Table 4: Spectrometer Design Issues

The beamlines at ESRF and SPring-8 use single backscattering monochromators and spherical backscattering analyzers,
while those at APS use in-line monochromators followed by spherical backscattering analyzers. Meanwhile the
UHRIX setup at APS, and the beamline at NSLS-II both use in-line monochromators and post-sample-collimation(PSC) based analyzers, where the beam is collimated and flat analyzers are used, instead of figured analyzers.
Sketches of the various beamline setups are shown in figure 7 while more details can also be found in table 2. In
addition to the items in the table, since most IXS experiments are flux limited, and, indeed, scan times in a given set of
conditions can sometimes be days, the entire beamline design needs to emphasize both high through-put (efficiency)
and stability.

+

Momentum transfer and energy transfer are completely decoupled with x-rays so, for IXS, scanning energy transfer at constant momentum transfer
requires no motion of the sample or analyzers.
*
Scanning Q at a fixed energy transfer is possible, as are more sophisticated correlated scans, but can be dangerous, except in well-defined simple
cases. This danger is because (1) IXS energy resolution is typically Lorentzian, with long tails, so that the intensity at a fixed energy can respond tochanges in intensity of spectral features that are far away - thus it can be necessary to know the entire energy spectrum at a particular momentum
transfer to properly interpret the intensity at one energy and (2) dynamical spectra are generally complex, with many modes for materials with larger
unit cells, so even in the absence of long tails, it can be important to know the local shape of the spectrum to evaluate intensity changes at a particularenergy.

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Figure 7. Spectrometer conceptual layout. (Dimensions are not to scale). When multiple beamlines are listed, the details
can be slightly different than shown - e.g. in (c) sector 30 of APS has only a KB (no separate mirror) and in (d) the sketch of
the HRM is appropriate for UHRIX, but at NSLS-II is more similar to the design for APS (c). Various components are aslabeled, with "KB" being an abbreviation for the use of a Kirkpatrik-Baez focusing pair of mirrors, or a similar focusing
element.

The choice of high-resolution-monochromator (HRM) design has a large impact on beamline layout: an "in-line" option(where the beam out of the HRM is in the same direction as the incident beam) preserves the order of hutches and isconceptually easiest to integrate in a beamline design. This is the design favored at APS, where there is considerable
experience in making such in-line monochromators. A single-reflection backscattering design, as used at SPring-8 and
ESRF, is much simpler as regards the operation of the HRM, but the outgoing beam is nearly on top of the incident
beam in space. This requires careful beamline design, but, in this author's opinion, is easier to operate than in-line
HRMs, and, also, given the layout of the experimental floor at most synchrotron radiation facilities, can allow a larger
two-theta scan range for the spectrometer. The PSC optical setup requires an in-line monochromator as it operates at32

resolution that is better than simple symmetric backscattering can provide, in silicon, at the low x-ray energy. The
comment about flexibility in the table for the HRM regards the possibility to operate at different resolutions: forbackscattering HRMs, it is relatively easy to change resolution, e.g., from 2.8 meV at the Si (999) at 17.79 keV to 1.3
meV at the Si(11 11 11) at 21.75 keV as no change in monochromator geometry or analyzer crystals is needed, while
in-line monochromators must be entirely replaced (see also table 2). The comment about scan range in table 4 refers to
the fact that, in general, the scan range of the in-line monochromators can be ~10's of eV, while that of a backscattering
monochromator is limited by the range of thermal expansion to ~eV in silicon - but given that phonons are mostly onenergy scales <0.1 eV this is generally not an issue (though see also section 4.9).
Focusing is accomplished by any number of optics - cylindrical or toroidal mirrors, dynamic or static KB setups, oreven lenses, but there are two separate and competing constraints on the focal spot size. On one hand, the beam size
should be small enough as dictated either by the optical acceptance of the spectrometer (~0.3 mm for sphericalanalyzers, depending somewhat on resolution, ~0.01 mm for a PSC setup) or the sample size: if the beam size at the
sample is too large, it may partly miss the sample, or be partly outside the spectrometer acceptance, reducing rates
and/or degrading energy resolution. On the other hand, the incident beam divergence must not be too large in order tokeep good momentum resolution: the best achievable momentum resolution for a spectrometer, in the limit of small
beam sizes and small analyzers, is given by the incident angular divergence: ΔQmin = Δθ in 2π / λ (at small Q).
Considering these two competing issues, spectrometers often use compound focusing, allowing one to choose between
small beam size and larger divergence for very small samples and a larger beam size with smaller divergence for better
momentum resolution. For example, at BL35 of SPring-8, the incident divergence in the scattering plane with just thestandard bent cylindrical mirror is ~0.35 mrad. FWHM (beam size of ϕ<80 µm) giving ΔQmin ~ 0.038 nm-1 at 21.7
keV, which increase to ~2 mrad (~0.22 nm-1) when the KB setup is installed to reduce the beam size to ϕ<20 µm. The
main mirror alone is then used for liquid experiments, and most crystalline experiments, but, when the samples are verysmall (e.g. in a diamond anvil cell at high, >50 GPa, pressure) the KB setup is added. Another advantage of acompound focusing setup is that the size of the KB mirrors can be reduced. A disadvantage, however, with compound
focusing is that the source size demagnification is also usually reduced, so at BL43 a single-focusing KB setup waschosen to push to few-micron scale beam size, even though it does require significant setup time to re-align thebeamline. For the PSC setups, the requirements for the beam size are more severe for spectrometer operation than withspherical analyzers, so it can be difficult to relax the beam size much, and slitting may be needed upstream of the
focusing element for the best momentum resolution. We will not discuss the details of focusing further in the present
paper, but refer the interested reader to references (Alatas, et al., 2011) (Ishikawa, et al., 2013)(Baron, et al., 2018).
The free aperture around the sample has a large impact on possible sample environments. Generally, the default
configuration of a beamline (without micro-focusing / KB optics) has relatively large space upstream of the sample.
However, the space downstream of the sample tends to be limited: when spherical analyzers are used, it is desirable toplace the detectors for each analyzer close to sample in order to reduce geometric contributions to the energy resolution,
while, in the PSC setup, it is advantageous to place the collimating mirror close to the sample to accept a maximum
solid angle of the scattered radiation but still keep the beam size small. Thus, in both cases, one practically only has afree aperture downstream of the sample of <~100mm, except in special cases (e.g. the spectrometer of BL43LXU isbuilt to allow up 150 mm clear aperture downstream of the sample for a 7T magnet). In contrast, upstream of thesample, one can, in many cases, have 200 or 300 mm (or more) free aperture. The space above the sample is usually
not limited (except by ceiling height, which can be an issue for a magnet), while the space below the sample is set by
the beamline layout - including default stage configuration. (In principle, for backscattering monochromator beamlines,
the beam flight path location is another limit. But, at, SPring-8, the free sample space below the sample is close to 400
mm and has not limited any experiments.) Installing focusing, such as a KB setup, where placing focusing elements
close to the sample desirable to improve the demagnification, can limit the free aperture upstream of the sample, and,can be an issue. especially when combined with laser heating for high-pressure setups.
The analyzers are the heart of the IXS beamline, being the most complex and difficult to fabricate optical component.
This is because they should accept a large solid angle from the sample to preserve flux so their angular acceptance,
approaching ~10x10 mrad2, needs to be much larger than the typical angular acceptance of Bragg reflections. They
will be discussed in detail below, as will the optical concerns that lead to the rather large (6 to 12 m) two-theta arms of
most spectrometers. In order to improve efficiency, beamlines with spherical analyzers use an array of between 4 and24 analyzers (eventually 42 at BL43LXU) which allows parallelization of data collection. For disordered materials,
where only the magnitude of the momentum transfer is relevant, the gain is linear in the number of analyzers. For
solids, where one often focuses on measurements along high symmetry directions, the value of multiple analyzers ismore complex, as only some of the analyzers may be close enough to the symmetry direction (this is discussed in detailin section 4.6). The choice of analyzer can also impact flexibility, as spherical analyzers can be operated at any allowed
harmonic of the fundamental backscattering reflection (e.g. the same analyzer may be used for 6 meV resolution at theSi(888) as for 1.5 meV resolution at the Si(11 11 11) or sub-meV resolution at the Si(13 13 13)). For the PSC setup, thepresent instruments are still at the level of a single analyzer per instrument, and it is not yet clear what level of33

parallelization will be possible in the longer term, as the cost per channel remains high, and the space needed for thecollimating mirrors, and their mechanics, close to the sample is a limiting constraint.

4.2 Dynamical Bragg Diffraction
IXS spectrometers rely heavily on diffraction of x-rays by perfect crystals for good energy resolution. We now take abrief interlude to introduce some of the main relations important for these optics, including estimates of the angular andenergy acceptance of perfect crystals based on dynamical theory. Dynamical diffraction differs from the scattering
theory discussed in section 2 by concentrating on only the elastic term (the first term in eqn. (15)), and extending thetreatment to explicitly include multiple scattering and boundary conditions based on Maxwell's equations. Some of themain results may be obtained using a largely heuristic approach to multiple scattering related to the work of Darwin andPrins (see, e.g.,(James, 1962)) while a wave based treatment (Batterman & Cole, 1964) (Authier, 2003) can be moregeneral. Other useful references include (Pinsker, 1978) and, especially as regards high-resolution monochromatization,(Shvyd’ko, 2004).
In the context of diffraction theory, the single-scattering or Born-approximation treatment,
equivalent to that in section 2, is called "kinematic" diffraction: in kinematic theory, the multiple scattering - theinterference between the incident and scattered waves within the crystal - is neglected. However, for efficient optics,
one requires that crystal reflectivity be near unity, and, in that limit, dynamical theory is required. Here we largely
follow (Batterman & Cole, 1964)+. We treat only the case of a single excited Bragg reflection (the "two-beam" case)neglecting multi-beam cases (where the Bragg condition is simultaneously satisfied, or nearly satisfied, for more than
one set of lattice planes). Multiple beams (Colella, 1974) can be important near backscattering (Sutter, et al., 2001) but
we assume they have been deliberately avoided.
The most useful relationship, beyond Bragg's law, λ = 2d sin (θ B ) , in diffraction, is the relation between a small angle
change, Δθ , and a small energy shift, ΔE , that follows immediately from differentiation of Bragg's law, namely,Δθ = tan (θ B )

ΔE
E

(39)

This also shows that, for a given energy bandwidth, the largest angular acceptance can be obtained by going close tobackscattering, θ B ≈ π / 2 , hence the reliance of most spectrometers on a backscattering geometry. In that case, one
can write,

⎛
⎞
ΔE
π
⎜ ε = E θ B ≡ 2 − δ , δ ≪1⎟⎝⎠ε ≈ δ Δθ(40)

i.e. the contribution of an angular divergence Δθ to the fractional energy resolution ε is just the product of thatdivergence with the deviation from exact backscattering, δ . Dynamical diffraction theory allows one to calculate theabsolute reflectivity and bandwidth of Bragg reflections. The ratio of reflected to incident intensity (the absolutesquares of the amplitudes of the plane waves*) for a wave diffracted from a thick crystal near to the Bragg condition(incident and reflected beams on the same sides of the crystal) can be written (Batterman & Cole, 1964)

R = η ± η 2 −1

2

Fτ

F−τ

(41)

where η is a parameter that indicates the deviation from the Bragg condition (and is complex due to absorption in thematerial). The sign in front of the root is chosen to preserve R ≤1 . Specifically, and referring to figure 8,

η =
=

+
*

(

) (

)

b θ − θ B sin 2θ B + 12 ΓF0 (1− b)Γ b Fτ F−τ
ΓF0 − 2ε BΓ Fτ F−τ( Exact Backscattering , b=-1)

(42)

†

Note that this reference takes k = 1 / λ , dropping the factor of 2π that is commonly used today.
Sometimes the reflectivity is defined in terms of intensity per unit area and this will lead to an additional factor of |b| in eqn. (41).

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Monochromatic
Plane Wave

Polychromatic
Plane Wave

Crystal Planes
Figure 8. Bragg diffraction. An asymmetric case is shown, with the asymmetry angle α giving the inclination of
the crystal planes as compared to the crystal surface. The right side shows the reflection of a monochromatic planewave, where the beam size is increased by the asymmetry factor, -1/b (-1<b<1 for the case shown). The left sideshows the reflection of polychromatic wave, which, for an asymmetric reflection leads to dispersion.

where b = − sin (θ in ) sin (θ out ) = − sin (θ B − α ) sin (θ B + α ) is the asymmetry parameter for a crystal when thesurface makes an angle of α with respect to the Bragg planes, F0 , Fτ ,F−τ are the structure factors in the forward,
2

Bragg and reverse-Bragg directions and Γ = re λ π V (V the volume of the unit cell). Here we will focus exclusively
on Bragg reflections, where the incident and reflected beams are on the same side of the crystal (b<0) as, for the present
considerations, the Bragg case is more efficient than the Laue case. The structure factors are essentially those given in
eqn. (16), or the phased sum of the charge density over the unit cell. However, now, with the multiple scattering andinterest in absolute reflectivity, one can not neglect the small imaginary parts due to photoelectric absorption - theimaginary parts of F0 , Fτ must be included, usually by including imaginary contributions to the form factors (e.g.

f = f1 + i f2 or f → f + f '+ i f '' depending on notation).

Note, often Fτ ≈ F−τ is a good approximation, and isrigorously true for centrosymmetric crystal, but can fail in more complex materials such as quartz. The equations arefor sigma-polarized radiation - electric field perpendicular to the scattering plane - for pi polarization one takes
Fτ → cos ( 2θ B ) Fτ (cf. the polarization dot-product in the Thomson cross section, eqn. 1). Finally, the first eqn in (42) isonly valid if the Bragg angle is less than 90 degrees, and at incident, and outgoing, angles greater than the critical angle
for external reflection. A version that is good at exact backscattering‡ can be derived using eqn (39) to change the free()

variable from angle to the fractional energy shift, ε B = E − E B / E B , E B = hc 2d giving the second equation of (42).
We also note for comparison to other work, that sometimes the scattering is expressed in terms of a dielectricsusceptibility or polarizability given by χ = −Γ F and the relation with the index of refraction for x-rays is given byn = 1 − δ − iβ =ε =1 + χ 0 ≈ 1 + χ 0 2 or δ = − χ / 2 = ΓF / 2 and the (1/e) absorption length is related to the0

imaginary part of the scattering by λ
Θc =

abs

0

{ 0 } and the critical angle is given by= 1 µ = λ 4 πβ = λ 2π Im χ2δ .

The region of high reflectivity, η < 1 , is called the Darwin width ( ΔΘ D or ΔE D in angle or energy) of the reflection- the full width at half maximum of the reflectivity curve tends to be slightly, about 6%, larger than the Darwin width,though the precise ratio depends on the magnitudes of the real and imaginary parts of F0 , Fτ . The Darwin width isgiven byΔΘD =2Γ Fτ F−τ( )b sin 2θ B

or

ΔE D
E

‡

=

Γ Fτ F−τ2( )b sin θ B=

4red 2 Fτ F−τ

πV b

(43)

Carefully speaking, exact backscattering is usually a multi-beam situation, with more than one Bragg reflection excited. The second equation in(42) should then be interpreted as an easy way to estimate the rocking curve shape, bandwidth and peak reflectivity near to backscattering when
multi-beam excitations have been avoided.

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where the fractional energy width is seen to be mostly a constant for any given reflection. The second equation of (43)can be obtained from the first using eqn (39). At large deviation from the Bragg condition one has( η  1)R ~ 1 / 4η 2

(44)Thus, the tails of the reflectivity are approximately Lorentzian (but the Darwin width, Δη=2, is double what one would
expect from the decay of the tails). In general, this means that the resolution of any single-reflection monochromator or
analyzer will have Lorentzian tails, though shaper tails can be created by passing through multiple reflections.
"Asymmetric diffraction" refers to the case when the crystal planes are not parallel to the surface of the crystal (|α|>0 in
figure 8) and has b ≠ 1 . In this case, the Bragg reflection can both change the divergence of the beam and introduce
an energy-angle correlation, dispersion, into the output beam§. If one considers perfectly monochromatic radiation, theasymmetry leads to change in the size of the beam normal to its propagation direction by a factor of -1/b after thereflection. The asymmetry also changes the acceptance of the Bragg reflection, the Darwin width (in energy or angle)
by a factor of 1/ b for the input beam and a factor of b on the output side. This means that, for monochromaticradiation whose divergence is smaller than the Darin width, an asymmetric Bragg reflection with |b|<1 can be used tocollimate in angle and expand the size, or, with |b|>1, to reduce size and increase the divergence of an x-ray beam.
There is a conservation law in that the product of the change in divergence and the beam size is unity (formonochromatic beams within the acceptance of the crystal). One notes that with increased angular acceptance (|b|<1)
comes also increased energy acceptance (the b-dependence is the same in both parts of eqn. (43)).
One can also consider the effect of asymmetry on a parallel beam of polychromatic radiation. Here one finds that thedivergence of the output beam will always be increased as different energies will be reflected with different scattering
angle. Consideration of the equation kout=kin+τ, where τ is the Bragg momentum transfer (|τ|=2π/d) directed normal tothe crystal planes, gives Δθ = (1+b )Δλ /λ , however, as pointed out by Shvyd'ko (see section 2.2.4 of (Shvyd’ko, 2004))
the shift of the vacuum wave vector is not τ but includes a small added component normal to the crystal surface. The
correct relation then becomes (eqn. 2.140 of (Shvyd’ko, 2004))

Δθ =

Δλ
ΔE
(1+ b ) tan (θin ) = − (1+ b ) tan (θin )
λ
E

(45)

For example, a parallel beam having broad ( ΔE > ΔE D ) bandwidth incident on an asymmetric crystal, on output, will

( in ) 1+b ΔED /E . The angle-

have an angle-energy correlation over a bandwidth ΔE D and a divergence Δθ = tan θenergy correlation, or induced dispersion, of the beam can then be used to aid monochromatization of a beam using anarrow angular aperture (another crystal) after the asymmetric crystal (see discussion in section 4.7).
Wave fields in the crystal are exponentially damped as one penetrates inward, with a characteristic length of damping(normal to the crystal surface) for the intensity given by the extinction length which, for −1 ≤ η ≤ 1 , isλext (η ) =Then noting that the average value of−1/2
λ sin (θ B )1− η 22π ΓFτ

((1 − η )
2

−1/2

)

(46)

over the range−1 ≤ η ≤ 1 isjust

π / 2 one has

λext = λ sin (θ B ) / 4 ΓFτ . If one then defines the number of planes contributing to the reflection as N p = λext / d ,one can write Darwin width in energy (eqn 43) as *

ΔE D
1
=
E
2 Np

(Symmetric Bragg Reflection )

§

(47)

For a symmetric reflection, b=-1, for any plane wave, the angle of incidence will be the same as the angle of reflection, with the Bragg reflection
only reducing the intensity.
*
Note that sometimes the extinction length is just taken as the value at η=0 which will lead to replacing the factor of 2 by π in eqn (44),

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0.8

0.8

0.6
0.4

1
Reflectivity
Width
0.1

1

5

10
15
20
25
X-Ray Energy [keV]

30

Reflectivity

10

1

Reflectivity

Darwin Width [meV]100

Si (9 9 9)
Si (11 11 11)
Si (13 13 13)

0.6

0.4

0.2

0.2

0

0

-2

-1.5

-1

-0.5

0

0.5

1

1.5

2

Energy Offset (meV)

Figure 9: Calculated results for symmetric backscattering reflections in silicon (at 300K): the peak () reflectivity andenergy width (left panel) and reflectivity as a function of energy (right panel) for several commonly used reflections. The two
traces on the left are from the two classes of reflection in silicon - even reflections where all atoms in a unit cell contribute inphase and odd where the phasing is not perfect, reducing the reflectivity and the bandwidth. Even reflections generally havelarger bandwidth and peak reflectivity.

i.e.: within a factor of two, the fractional bandwidth of a symmetric Bragg reflection is just 1/Np where Np is the average
number of planes contributing to the reflection. Thus, to achieve good energy resolution, one would like a reflection
with a large number of planes contributing, or weak scattering for each plane (see also the next section).

4.3

Silicon & Non-Silicon Optics

The following sections discuss optics for IXS, and, in every case they will be silicon. The reason is that excellent
quality crystals are available for modest prices: highly perfect Si crystals (lattice spacing variability Δd/d<10-8) overmacroscopic - 100 mm scales) can be purchased for ~$1 to $5/g. Furthermore, silicon is a light, low-Z, material, so the
x-ray absorption is not severe in the 9-26 keV range, and the thermal conductivity (about 1/3 of copper) is also good.
There is also a huge amount of experience in processing silicon: crystal growth, cutting, etching, strain-free polishing offlat surfaces, etc. Of course, especially for high-resolution optics, there is considerable know-how and experience
required to preserve the high-resolution, but the essential crystal quality is sufficient over large lengths scales, at modest
prices. Thus, practically, essentially all optics, and especially those for ~ 1 meV resolution, are silicon.
Figure 9 and table 5 show some of the properties of backscattering reflections in silicon as these are the most relevant toour discussion of high-resolution spectrometers. (Here, as is typically done, the reflections are indexed in units of the 8atom cubic unit cell, a=5.43Å, as opposed to the 2-atom primitive cell). Generally, as the d-spacing becomes small(corresponding to a larger backscattering energy), the scattering per plane becomes less and the bandwidth gets
narrower. At the same time, the extinction length becomes larger, becoming comparable to the absorption length, andthe peak reflectivity falls. Typical reflectivity curves are shown in figure 9b. One should note that at the highTable 5: Backscattering reflections in silicon (300K, a=5.43108Å, ΘDebye=534K) used in some high-resolution spectrometersand properties in a symmetric Bragg reflection geometry. The last line is for a reflection used in a PSC geometry (section 3.6)
with extreme asymmetries so that the nominal Darwin width, etc., are not relevant and are given in parenthesis.

37momentum transfers of high-energy backscattering, the effect of the Debye-Waller factor is not negligible. In thecalculations that are shown, the factor has been calculated using a Debye model (second line of eqn. (22), ΘD=534K)
however careful measurements (Deutsch, et al., 1989) have suggested this slightly under-estimates W at higher
momentum transfers, and inclusion of that level of correction can make small (~10%) differences in expected energy
widths in figure 9b and a slight reduction in peak reflectivity.
Non-silicon optics are interesting, primarily as analyzers, for at least two reasons. On the one hand, materials withdifferent Debye temperatures and structure factors are interesting to change the scattering per plane and thus the energy
resolution at a given energy. On the other, materials with different lattice constants, or lower symmetry, than silicon,allow access to backscattering at different energies. The first is interesting to help tailor a desired energy resolution to
the available energy (e.g. at a low energy storage ring, fluxes can be higher at low energy) while the latter is particularlyinteresting in the context of potential high-resolution resonant IXS (RIXS) where one would like to choose abackscattering energy very close to a particular atomic resonance or edge. Crystals that have generated significant
interest are sapphire (Shvyd’ko & Gerdau, 1999) and quartz (Sutter, et al., 2005), which are both trigonal materials,
with relatively large c-axis lattice constants, and offer many reflections to choose from. Quartz has a lower Debye
temperature, so is probably more interesting at lower energies (say <~15 keV) where the bandwidth can be chosen to beat the ~meV level and the reflectivity is not too small, while sapphire, being harder with a higher Debye temperature, ismore interesting at higher energies (of course, cooling or heating the crystal can also change the reflection properties).
Of critical importance, few-cm-scale highly perfect quartz crystals are commercially available with better than 4 meVresolution over ~10 cm2 areas, as demonstrated more than a decade ago (Sutter, et al., 2006) whereas sapphire crystals
tend to be non-uniform (see, e.g. (Sergueev, et al., 2011) where after careful examination ~2meV resolution was
possible over areas of a few square mm). Spherical analyzer crystals have been fabricated with sapphire (Yavas, et al.,2007) with 31 meV resolution, and quartz with 25 (Ketenoglu, et al., 2014) and 10 meV (Said, et al., 2018) resolution,
while a PSC design using quartz has achieved ~10 meV resolution (Kim, et al., 2018). Additional discussion ofmaterials can be found in (Yavaş, et al., 2017)). It is this authors belief that, while not yet implemented, a PSC based
design with multiple backscattering reflections may be an effective instrument for a few, 3-10, meV resolution
spectrometer.

4.4 High Resolution Monochromator (HRM) Design
IXS requires a meV-scale bandwidth beam incident on the sample. However, the bandwidth of radiation from an
undulator insertion device is usually several hundred eV*. This means that at least two steps, and sometimes more, areused to reduce the bandwidth to the meV level needed for IXS. For the first optical element, where the power is ~0.1 to
1 kW in a transverse beam size of ~1 mm2, the power load problem is especially severe (1 kW/mm2 is sufficient, at
normal incidence, to quickly drill a hole in copper), but, this problem is common across nearly all synchrotron
beamlines and nearly-standard, if facility specific, "high-heat-load" monochromator solutions have been developed. We
do not discuss them in detail here, but mention the solution has usually either been to cryogenically cool silicon toapproach the zero in its thermal expansion at ~120K or to use thin diamonds which have low absorption and excellent
thermal conductivity (so most of the power is transmitted through the diamond, and the power that is absorbed does notseverely distort the crystal). After the high-heat-load monochromator one typically has an x-ray beam that is ~eV inbandwidth with a power of ~ 0.1 to 1 W. The power in this "monochromatic" or "eV" beam is much more manageable
than the kW levels of the pink beam, but still an issue.
Two approaches are applied to reducing the bandwidth of the eV beam to the meV level needed for IXS: an in-line
monochromator or a single backscattering monochromator. They are different approaches to dealing with the fact thedivergence of x-ray beams, from even very high brilliance synchrotron radiation sources, is significantly larger than the−7

typical angular acceptance of a meV-resolution Bragg reflection. The required level of energy resolution is ε ∼ 10
and, usually, smaller, so, considering eqn. (40), the angular acceptances of interesting Bragg reflections are at the (sub-)micro-radian level for δ~100 mrad, while synchrotron x-ray beam divergences are ~10 µrad. The acceptance increases
as δ becomes small (as the Bragg angle approaches 90 degrees or exact backscattering) and the different
monochromator solutions correspond to choosing either (1) to push δ as small as possible, δ~0.3 mrad, which thenallows one to accept the full x-ray divergence from the source, or (2) choosing to keep δ ~ 100 mrad and use additional
optics to further collimate the x-ray beam before it impinges on the high-resolution crystal. It is also possible to use an
extreme angular dispersion scheme (as discussed in section 4.8 below). We discuss each option in more detail below.
Backscattering, as is used at ESRF and SPring-8, is the conceptually simpler option (see, e.g. (Graeff & Materlik, 1982)
as an early demonstration of backscattering). The choice to work at δ~3x10-4 gives angular acceptances of >~15 µrad,
even for the most severe case (~0.3 meV monochromator resolution at 25.7 keV) and is generally comfortably larger.
However, energy scans are then only possible by changing the Bragg plane spacing, d, using thermal expansion.
(Scanning the Bragg angle, changing δ, changes the bandwidth, and indeed the entire beamline geometry).
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Fortunately, the thermal expansion of silicon is conveniently sized, α=2.6 ppm/K near room temperature, corresponding,for example, to ~18 mK/meV (56 meV/K) at 21.75 keV. Thus, with ~mK stability and few degree scan ranges, one caneffectively scan the interesting region of energy transfer with a backscattering monochromator. The other immediate
issue regards the geometry, as when δ is small the reflected beam lies nearly on top of the incident beam. This means
additional optics must be used to separate the two beams to allow enough space at the sample position to install samples,
sample environments, and motion stages. At ESRF (figure 7a) this is done by the using focusing mirror (operating at
few mrad grazing angle, just downstream of the backscattering mono) and a long travel distance. At SPring-8 (figure7b), a pair of "offset" crystals are used to allow as much as ~400 mm between the two beams. Using offset crystals
introduces an additional alignment component, but then makes it possible to install large sample setups, and to allow
stronger focusing in the default setup. Also, the use of offset crystals also allows one to reduce the power load on thebackscattering monochromator, as is discussed below.
One should mention a few important practical details about the backscattering setup: a backscattering monochromatormust be thermally isolated (e.g. mounted in vacuum) on top of stages that allow one to carefully control the angle andtemperature. Some care in design is needed both to allow reliable temperature control and to minimize the angulardrift of the crystal when its temperature is changed: the sample position is typically several 10's of meters from thebackscattering mono so that ~microradian stability is required. Similarly, this level control is needed over the crystal
angles for initial alignment. Finally, the power load of the monochromatic beam incident on this monochromator canadversely affect performance in two ways: it introduces a thermal gradient across the crystal so that the temperature
measured by the sensor (usually at least 20 mm away from the beam position) is different than the temperature where
the beam hits, and, if the power is large enough, there may even be a significant temperature gradient within the size ofthe x-ray beam spot. The first means that the incident power on the crystal must be considered when determining thetemperature at the beam spot, while the second can lead to worsening of the resolution as the silicon lattice spacing maychange over the x-ray-illuminated volume. In practice these problems are avoided by reducing the power density on
the backscattering crystal by first going to a grazing incidence setup (as seen in figure 3) as employed both at SPring-8(Baron, et al., 2002) and then at ESRF (Verbeni, et al., 2003) and/or using additional optics. At SPring-8, thebandwidth is also reduced by using an asymmetrically cut higher order reflection in the offset crystal (e.g. Si(220) orSi(400)), and/or other optics.
In-line monochromators build on designs and design concepts that were largely developed for nuclear resonant
scattering (Ishikawa, et al., 1991)(Toellner, et al., 1992)(Chumakov, et al., 1996)(Yabashi, et al., 2001)(Baron, et al.,2001)(Toellner, et al., 2002). For those experiments one must build optics to match the nuclear resonance energies, so
operating within <~ 1 milliradian of exact backscattering, at least in silicon, is generally not possible.
The
monochromator then usually uses crystals that are asymmetrically cut to manipulate the divergence and bandwidth ofthe x-ray beam (c.f. the dependence of the energy and angular bandwidths on the symmetry parameter, b, in equation
43). We do not track those developments in detail here, but focus instead on how this has been done for the APS IXS
instruments - as this will introduce most of the main issues. We also note that a highly dispersive HRM design ispossible (e.g. UHRIX at APS (Shvyd’ko, et al., 2014)) and, as this design is very similar to the PSC analyzer design, we
refer the reader to that section (essentially, remove the collimating mirror and optimize for reduced incident divergence).
The APS monochromator design (Toellner, et al., 2011) uses 6 bounces that are arranged in pairs, with two bounces
collimating the beam to the 0.3 µrad level, two bounces to reduce the bandwidth and two bounces then undoing thecollimation (and returning the beam size to near the incident size). The layout can be seen in figure 10. The first andlast pair of crystals are mounted in a channel-cut geometry, but are in fact flat crystals connected to a flexure based

Figure 10. In-line monochromator design (after (Toellner, et al., 2011)). Beam travels fromright to left through (A) an artificial channel-cut collimating crystal at room temperature, (B) ahigh resolution channel-cut crystal at cryogenic temperature and (C) an artificial channel cut
crystal, at room temperature, to recover the incident beam size. (reproduced with the permission of
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stage, forming an "artificial" channel cut (Shu, et al., 2000). This is important to allow compensation for un-even heatload on the crystals, as the beam intensity (bandwidth) changes from one reflection to the next. It is also convenient
because a fixed channel cut crystal is difficult to polish as it must be largely be done by hand, while flat crystals can bepolished by machine. However, the flexure stage introduces a possible point of instability, and the APS designs areactively stabilized. The high-resolution crystal is a conventional channel-cut, held at low temperature (again, near thezero in thermal expansion) to avoid thermal effects, and to improve its peak reflectivity (by making the Debye-Waller
factor, e-2W closer to unity*). Each pair of crystals is mounted on very high (<50 nrad) resolution angular stages, with,again, stabilization.

4.5 Spherical Analyzers
The analyzers are the heart of the IXS beamline, and the most difficult optic to fabricate. The goal of the analyzer isessentially the same as the high-resolution monochromator - to select a very narrow bandwidth of radiation - but,instead of accepting a highly collimated beam from an insertion device, the analyzer sees a highly divergent beam fromthe sample. The desired angular acceptance is set by the experiment, but, practically is usually between about 0.5 and10 mrad in each direction, with smaller acceptances being interesting for experiments where momentum resolution isespecially important, but, often, larger acceptances are desirable to increase count-rates. However, even the small endof this angular range is much larger than the acceptance of a Bragg reflection, even at Bragg angles near tobackscattering. Then, one of two options can be considered: either a figured analyzer where the shape is chosen so thatthe Bragg angle does not vary significantly over the desired angular acceptance, or one can collimate the divergent
beam from the sample. We will discuss the first of these here, which accounts for most of the presently operating user
spectrometers, and will discuss the second, "post-sample collimation" (PSC) setup later.

Figure 11. A pixelated analyzer crystal (9x9cm2). Often circular substrates are used, however, for thetemperature gradient, discussed below, a rectangular substrate is easier.

The figured analyzer dates back at least to the discussion of IXS in the 80's (Dorner, et al., 1980)(Fujii, et al., 1982),
where, considering the necessity of operating nearly at backscattering, the appropriate shape is immediately spherical.
Bending a crystal introduces strain so that this is not an option, and the universal solution has been to bond many small(mm-scale) crystallites to a curved substrate (figure 11) - though the details of his process vary significantly from
instrument to instrument. Published papers describing fabrication include (Masciovecchio, et al., 1996)(Masciovecchio,
et al., 1996)(Baron, et al., 2001)(Sinn, 2001)(Verbeni, et al., 2005)(Said, et al., 2011) while additional discussion can befound in (Burkel, 1991). The design of spherical analyzers requires an intimate understanding of both the silicon crystal
processing and all the optical parameters of the setup, as it is the detailed interplay of these that determine the

Figure 12. Spherical analyzer geometry - not to scale: typically R~10m, d~5mm and l~200 mm, c~1mm). See text.
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Reducing temperature increases both reflectivity, and the bandwidth. However, the can be a net gain in reflectivity/bandwidth.

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discussion is beyond the scope of the present paper (and, indeed, design is now often accompanied by sophisticated raytracing codes) we will try to indicate the main issues.
Consideration of Bragg's law (e.g. eqn. (39)) and figure 12 immediately leads one to a geometric contribution to theanalyzer resolution that scales as

cd⎛ ΔE ⎞⎜⎝⎟⎠ ≈E 1 2R 2(48)

where d 2R is the deviation from exact backscattering, δ, and c R is the divergence accepted by a single crystallite.
Thus, from the point of view of minimizing this contribution to the energy resolution it is clearly desirable to have R
large, and the transverse crystallite size, c, and the detector offset, d, both small. However, the analyzers are usually 3
to 7 mm thick+ so that limits of silicon processing* (e.g. saw blade thickness typically > 50 µm, etching to remove strain
after sawing > 2x30 µm) typically set groove widths >~0.1 mm, so that the crystallite size, c, is typically not muchsmaller than 1 mm to prevent loss of a very large fraction of the solid angle to the grooves (0.15 mm groves on a 1mm
pitch lead to surface area loss of 1-0.852 = 28%). Meanwhile, a desire to have the space around the sample, andrequiring some entrance to the vacuum flight path (not shown) and slitting typically puts l~200 mm, which forces, e.g.,
d~5 mm for a 10 mrad acceptance analyzer (to prevent blocking the outgoing beam). Then taking R~10m one finds−8

this contribution to the resolution is ΔE E ≈ 2.5x10 or 0.5 meV at 20 keV. This sets the scale then for the
spectrometer. The R2 dependence of this term strongly favors large arm radii, however the practical issues of space on
the experimental floor, as well as expense, tend to push for smaller radii, with the operating spectrometers having arm
radii varying from R=6 to 10 m (the spectrometer at ESRF ID28 once had an option for R=12m), pixel sizes of c~1mm
and detector offsets, d~few mm. (Carefully speaking, one might add a source size contribution to eqn 48, however, inmost spectrometers the beam focal spot sizes tend to be a small fraction of a mm, which, except for the effect of a
projection through a thick sample, tends to be negligible compared to the ~mm scale crystallite sizes).
Another contribution to the energy resolution comes from the choice of l>0, as is needed to keep some space available
for sample environments. This stems from the small variation in Bragg angle over the analyzer surface that is inducedby violation of the exact Roland-circle (l=0) focusing condition. It has been called the "demagnification" contribution(Burkel, 1991) and scales as (Burkel, 1991) (Ishikawa & Baron, 2010)dl⎛ ΔE ⎞⎜⎝⎟⎠ ≈ Ω 2
E 2
4R

(49)

where Ω = D / R is the solid angle of the analyzer in the scattering plane. Taking Ω =10 mrad for a 10 cm analyzer
at R=10m radius, and, again, l, d, and c = 200, 5 and 1mm, respectively, one finds this also gives a contribution of

Figure 13: Spherical analyzer with temperature gradient and resolution functions (based on
results in (Ishikawa & Baron, 2010) (Ishikawa, et al., 2015)) . The three resolution correspond to
1.5 meV at the (11 11 11) without the gradient (this can be improved to 1.25 meV with a gradient- not shown) and the 0.9 meV improved to 0.75 meV resolution at the (13 13 13))+*This thickness is needed to preserve good resolution. See (Said, et al., 2011).

For thinner (<~0.5 mm thick) analyzers, one can do the "dicing" using reactive ion etching, but this is not possible for thicker where severe aspectratios (~50:1) are needed to keep the grove width small. (Finkelstein, 2005)

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ΔE E ≈ 2.5x10 or 0.5 meV at 20 keV. However, this can largely be removed by applying a temperature gradientover the surface of the analyzer to change the lattice spacing to compensate for the variation in Bragg angle, allowing arecord spectrometer resolution of 0.75 (2) meV to be obtained using the Si(13 13 13) back reflection at 25.7 keV for a
total measured resolution, including monochromator, analyzer and geometric contributions of ΔE E total < 3x10(Ishikawa, et al., 2015).

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It is possible to consider using a position sensitive detector instead of a single element detector, as has been applied tosetups operating at lower (~10 to 100 meV) resolution, in a so called "dispersion compensation" setup (Huotari, et al.,2005). This allows one to replace the angular scale given by the crystallite size in eqn (48) with that of the detector
pixel size, c/R -> p/2R, where p is the detector pixel size (convolved with the source size) in the scattering plane.
Taking a relatively conservative value of p~0.2 mm would allow a factor of 10 increase in d from 5 to 50 mm for the−8same contribution, ΔE E ≈ 2.5x10 , to the resolution as is discussed above. However, this method also requires one
strictly obey the Roland circle condition, l=0, and it is not clear that d=50 mm is then enough for interesting sample
environments. Of course, if one looks to the future, where one might hope for p~0.02 mm, and a corresponding d=500
mm, then this becomes much more attractive. However, it does require that the spot size on the sample, as projected
onto the direction of the analyzed beam, be of similar (really, smaller) scale, and may also require carefulreconsideration of the required perfection of the analyzer crystallite alignment, and, indeed the entire optical setup, with,for example, deviation of the alignment of the analyzer crystallites out of the nominal scattering plane possibly
becoming a serious limitation.

Figure 14: Using an analyzer array (after (Baron, et al., 2008)). A 2-Dimensional array can be used to parallelize
measurements of longitudinal (left) and transverse phonons (right). In each case, the top panel shows a schematic while thelower panel shows and exact calculation for the BL35 array for a material with a 4Å lattice constant at 17.8 keV. See text for
discussion.

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4.6 Efficient use of an Analyzer Array
Given the flux-limited nature of IXS experiments, every facility with spherical analyzers uses an array to speed,
parallelize, data collection. Linear arrays in the horizontal scattering plane are used at ESRF and APS and 2dimensional arrays at SPring-8. For disordered materials, each analyzer adds either a new momentum transfer (foranalyzers in the scattering plane) or additional data at a nearly equivalent momentum transfers (for those out of theplane). In-plane analyzers then extend the range of measurements while out-of-plane analyzers and add redundancy (forlow rate data) and checks (e.g. for texture in powder measurements). For crystalline materials, using an array is more
complicated, as, for a fully 3-dimensional sample with a fixed orientation relative to the incident beam, it is generally
only possible to put one analyzer precisely at a high symmetry point* and most phonon measurements continue toemphasize high symmetry directions. However, it is possible to put several analyzers near the symmetry direction, as
shown in figure 14, with a line of analyzers in the scattering plane lying nearly along the symmetry direction for alongitudinal mode dispersing from Γ, and a vertical line being on the symmetry direction for a transverse mode. The
analyzers will increasingly move off the symmetry direction as one moves from the central analyzer, but, it can be
possible to put several (~4 or 5) near to a symmetry line depending somewhat on the tolerance of the experiment.
Given the long scan times, such parallelization is often critical. Further, it is generally useful to see the results fornearby momentum transfers, to, for example, help identify the nature of the modes in a spectrum (e.g. contamination bya transverse mode in a longitudinal spectrum due to imperfect momentum resolution can be easy to spot) or
determination the localization of interesting effects. In addition, when one considers fitting a microscopic model to thedata (as mentioned in section 3), all analyzer crystals are then useful. One should note that the parallelization fortransverse modes requires careful choice of the azimuthal angle about the nominal momentum transfer, so should beconsidered in advance. For samples with reduced dimensionality, layered or 1-dimensional, it is often possible toarrange the system so the deviation from the high symmetry line is along a direction where there is weak (nearly no)dispersion, effectively keeping all analyzers on the symmetry direction.

4.7 Post-Sample-Collimation (PSC) Optics
Given the tricks that are possible using asymmetric dynamical diffraction with highly collimated beams, it isimmediately interesting, in the context of building a high-resolution spectrometer, to consider the possibility ofcollimating the radiation scattered from the sample and then making use of those tricks to analyze the scatteredradiation - in essence replacing the spherical analyzer discussed above with a collimator and a suitably optimized highresolution monochromator. This, of course, requires a sufficiently high-quality and efficient collimating device, butalso quickly leads to two other issues: (1) the spot size on the sample must be small, as the best collimation that can beobtained from a reflective or refractive collimator without losses is the spot size on the sample over the distance to thecollimator, and (2) the beam size out of the collimator must be small, to prevent the sizes of the subsequent opticalelements from becoming too large. In the past decade, there has been significant improvement in optics, and, while a
PSC scheme seemed beyond reach 10 or 15 years ago, it is now becoming a viable alternative, at least for some classesof experiments.
The push for the PSC setup for high-resolution IXS was in large part due to the work of Shvyd'ko and co-workers(Shvyd’ko, 2004)(Shvyd’ko, et al., 2006)(Shvyd’ko, et al., 2014) and, beyond the collimating element, they pushed thelimits in two directions with respect to the high-resolution monochromators mentioned above: (1) the potential toachieve ~meV and even substantially sub-meV resolution at relatively low (9.1 keV) x-ray energy (0.62 meVspectrometer resolution has been demonstrated (Shvyd’ko, et al., 2014) and 0.1 meV suggested (NSLS-II Conceptual
Design Report, 2006)), and (2) the possibility to provide energy resolution with extremely sharp tails. These are, inprinciple, both step-wise improvements over previous HRM designs, as most of the earlier designs already haverelatively small tails/sharp response (compared to spherical analyzers) and, if one pushes, can have good resolution (seealso discussion in (Sturhahn & Toellner, 2011)). However, the use of extreme dispersion (pushing eqn. (45) to thelimit) in backscattering made the improvements both more practical, up to needing rather long perfect crystals(approaching 1m in some cases) and more dramatic. Operation at lower x-ray energy is also particularly interesting at
low-energy storage rings (e.g. Diamond, NSLS-II) due to the higher flux available at ~10 keV, compared to 20 keV ,but should be considered with care as the lower energy also strongly reduces the penetration into samples and sample
environments, decreasing signal rates and potentially increasing radiation damage (see also section 4.8). However, thegood resolution (FWHM) coupled with dramatically improved tails compared to spherical analyzers, makes the PSC
setup of interest, as do some more exotic designs discussed at the end of this section. This approach is now being
pursued most earnestly at the NSLS-II (Cai, et al., 2013), in a new user facility.

*

The same restriction exists also for INS, but, often, exemplary plots of the Q-E plane are shown for low-dimensional samples - so the limit is notalways obvious. Meanwhile, the new chopper spectrometers can also rotate the sample and do post-selection to choose only those events in a highsymmetry plane.

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There are essentially 3 main conceptual steps in the PSC analyzer setup as embodied in the first spectrometer (Shvyd’ko,
et al., 2014): (1) the use of a collimating mirror just after the sample to reduce the divergence of the scattered radiation,(2) the use of a crystal in a reflection-transmission geometry to allow operation very close to backscattering (Baron, etal., 2001), and then highly asymmetric backscattering to create large dispersion, and (3) the combination of thedispersion of (2) with an angular filter (based on Bragg reflection and anomalous transmission) to reduce the tails of theenergy response function. The collimating mirror acts essentially as the inverse of the usual focusing setup, with thelocation being the result of two competing constraints: the desire to have a small collimated beam size pushes one toplace the optic close to the sample while the desire to have small impact of the (projected) beam spot on the sample

Figure 15. Resolution of the PSC analyzer setup after (Shvyd’ko, et al., 2014). Dark solid points measured
from glassy carbon at Q=1nm-1 and light circles in forward scattering. The solid line is a the calculated response
and the dashed line Lorentzian matched at the FWHM, which is approximately what one would expect from aspherical analyzer with the same FWHM - the improvement is clear. (This figure has been modified from theoriginal by including the schematic of the monochromator at left, as is acceptable under license.
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pushes for larger distances. However, in addition, there is also the desire, long-term, to allow multiple analyzers, whichleads to tight constraints on the extent of the collimator transverse to the beam direction. The choice, so far, has been afigured Montel multilayer optical mirror (Mundboth, et al., 2014) which is essentially a pair of mirrors at right angles,
conceptually similar to combining a KB pair into one monolithic unit. This setup accepts ~10 mrad vertical divergenceat ~20 cm from the sample, collimating it to ~100 µrad divergence. The first reflection from the central crystal thencollimates the beam by an additional factor of ~20, reducing the beam divergence to the ~5 µrad level, and blowing thebeam size up ~20 times in the diffracting plane. This beam is incident at 1.9 degree grazing angle onto to a dispersive
backscattering crystal (Shvyd’ko, et al., 2011). At this point, the beam size (after being increased by the collimating
crystal) becomes an issue, with (Shvyd’ko, et al., 2014) being limited to <0.8 mrad acceptance of the beam from thesample in the analyzer scattering plane due to a limited, 90 mm, length of the dispersive backscattering crystal. The
design for NSLS-II envisions a set of 5 independent dispersing backscattering crystals to obtain larger angular
acceptance (Cai, et al., 2013). The beam then passes through the collimating crystal, allowing operation of thedispersing crystal very close to back-reflection and reflects off of a second dispersive backscattering crystal, before
being reflected out of the system by the "back" side of the thin collimating crystal. One should also note that the use of
the dispersing crystal in near backscattering also requires relatively good collimation of the beam incident on thatcrystal perpendicular to the scattering plane - the collimator described above must thus collimate in two dimensions,albeit with a (slightly) relaxed tolerance out of the scattering plane. The resolution from one PSC system is shown infigure 15, with clear improvement in the tail of the response compared to the Lorentzian response expected from aspherical analyzer.
Two extensions of the PSC approach that have been discussed in the context of high-resolution spectrometers. One ofthem, a "spectrograph" (Shvyd’ko, et al., 2013)(Shvyd’ko, 2015), essentially adds dispersion analysis on the beam fromthe sample. It creates a position-energy-transfer correlation on the final detector that effectively allows a larger
bandwidth (say 50+ meV) to be collected from the sample while retaining good (e.g. meV or potentially sub-meV)
resolution for the energy transfer, though, possibly it may effectively sacrifice the extremely sharp tails of the PSC
setup described above. The optics layout has been demonstrated (though not with a sample) in (Shvyd’ko, et al., 2013).
To a first approximation, this allows a gain of a factor of ~N = total output bandwidth over energy-transfer resolution,
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which can be a ~5 to ~100, for the same flux hitting the sample (so without increasing radiation damage). Anotheroption (a so called "echo" spectrometer) sets up a position-energy correlation on the sample and a position energytransfer correlation at the detector, allowing one to open up the incident bandwidth onto the sample while keeping goodresolution in the energy transfer (Shvyd’ko, 2016). Assuming an appropriate geometry and a sufficiently uniform
sample this then allows a ~MN enhancement in rates, in principle, with a factor of M coming from the increased rate(bandwidth) on the sample and the other factor of N is gained in the spectrograph. The concept originated from an idea
now used in the soft x-ray regime (Lai, et al., 2014) but has yet to be demonstrated for hard x-rays. One notes that bothof these methods are sophisticated optical designs and may be difficult to realize in a user instrument, but might offer a
way of achieving ~0.1 meV resolution with acceptable count rates.

4.8 Comparison of 9.1 keV PSC and Spherical Analyzers
We compare post-sample-collimation (PSC) optics operating at 9.1 keV, and spherical analyzers (SAs) operating
between 15.8 and 25.7 keV. The previous of this review (Baron) was optimistic regarding the potential of the PSC
setup for high resolution, but cautious about count-rates, and this seems so far, to be borne out by experience. Table 6
lists several points of comparison.
The simplest point of comparison, a-priori, is the operating energy. Using spherical analyzers at energies near 20 keVstrongly reduces the photo-electric absorption of x-rays as compared to the 9.1 keV operating energy of the PSC setups.
Thus with SAs it is easier to penetrate further into samples and into sample environments, often increasing rates. The
former can be particularly important for heavier sample materials and can be quantified by comparing the ratio of theThomson scattering cross section that is responsible for the signal in IXS to the photo-electric absorption cross section
which leads to absorption and radiation damage. The elemental breakdown of this is shown in figure 13. We consider

Table 6: Comparison of operation with ~meV resolution spherical analyzers (SA) and post-sample collimation (PSC) optics
with respect to several issues. The table mentions main points, but there are many caveats so please see the text for details.

YBCO as an example: the penetration into YBa2Cu3O7 is about 66 microns at 21.7 keV, and only 8.4 microns at 9.1
keV, so, with equal analyzer solid angle, efficiency, and flux (photons/s/meV) onto the sample and similar geometry,the scattered intensity would be about 8 times larger for 21.7 keV x-rays if the sample is ~0.1 mm thick or more. Of
course, using a lower, 9.1 keV, energy means that the momentum transfer resolution is improved for a given solid angle,
so that, for a fixed momentum transfer resolution one might gain back a factor of 2.4 (one dimension) or 2.42 (twodimensions) in rate increase at 9.1 keV (compared to 21.7 keV), assuming the solid angle of the PSC analyzer is large
enough. However, the PSC setups are now mostly aiming at about 10 mrad angular acceptance, similar to sphericalanalyzers, so in most flux limited experiments, where the analyzer apertures are large, the PSC option will yield
improved momentum resolution at reduced rates. One also notes that the number of scattered photons per absorbed
photon is much smaller for lower energy x-rays (see figure 13), so that radiation damage, as can be an issue even for
IXS, may be more severe with the PSC setup. For the issue of penetration into/out-of sample environments, weconsider a diamond anvil cell as an example: transmission through 3 mm of diamond is about 69% at 17.8 keV but only
13% at 9.1 keV or, through a 6mm Be gasket, 70 to 76% transmission at 17.8 keV and 26 to 43% at 9.1 keV (where theexact values are sensitive to the impurity content of the Be).
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125.7 keV
21.7 keV
15.8 keV
9.1 keV

0.1

0.01

0.001
0

20

40

60

80

100

Atomic Number (Z)Figure 16. Ratio of the cross section for Thomson scattering (at Q=0) to the absorption cross section for several x-ray
energies. This is effectively signal per incident photon in the thick sample limit. See text for discussion.

The SA geometry lends itself to relatively easy parallelization (see the discussion of the arrays in section 4.6) as, once
the recipe for fabricating analyzers is known, it is not too hard to make more, and the mechanics for installation (usually
two tilt axes) is not too extensive. In contrast, each channel in a PSC setup requires a new multilayer mirror collimating
optic, precise positioning of that mirror near the sample, in addition to several crystals and the associated mechanics.
Also, with SAs one can use the same analyzers (even high resolution monochromator in some cases) for several
different resolutions: when advantageous, one can trade larger flux at 17.79 keV for slightly poorer, 2.8 meV, resolution
instead of 1.3 meV resolution at 21.747 keV with lower flux.
Items 6 and 7 in table 6, sample volume selectivity and thickness, are different sides of the same issue. The SA setups
are not extremely sensitive to the source position, whereas the PSC optics are very sensitive to the source position. Thismeans the SA's can see scattering from large samples, but, at the same time, will also see scattering from, e.g., windows
near a sample. Meanwhile the PSC setup is comparatively sensitive to the source position so may not accept scatteringfrom all of a thick sample, but will also not be as sensitive to nearby windows. The length of sample observed scaleroughly given by a sin ( Θ scatt ) with a~1mm for SAs and for the PSC setup at NSLS-II (Cai, 2018) a~0.04 mm.

Finally we return to the issue of energy resolution. The original demonstration of PSC optics gave a 0.62 meVresolution, FWHM, as used to measure a glycerol sample (Shvyd’ko, et al., 2014), but more recent work at NSLS-II has
been at closer to 2 meV resolution (Bolmatov, et al., 2017) which, while also early in the operation, highlights thepractical difficulty of obtaining good resolution in the PSC setup*. Meanwhile SA optics have been demonstrated tohave a resolution as good at 0.75 meV for a standard plastic sample (Ishikawa, et al., 2015) while 0.8 meV has beenused in practical experiments, and 1.3 meV is the workhorse resolution of the SPring-8 instruments.
Thus, asindicated in the table, with the exception of the tails, which can be better with PSC optics, there may be an advantage
for the SA's in many cases. However, there is, in principle, an upgrade path for the PSC setup that one expects canprobably push to 0.5 meV or maybe even 0.4 meV or less, given a sufficiently strong source, and possibly as good as
0.1 meV (NSLS-II Conceptual Design Report, 2006) Improving the resolution using spherical analyzers to better than
0.75 meV would probably require a new instrument with a longer arm. However, given recent tendencies for rather
specialized instrumentation, such as soft x-ray spectrometers with ~15m arms scannable over nearly 180 degrees in
two-theta, this may be considered, especially as the resolution scales as the inverse square of the arm length (see eqn48): e.g a 15m arm probably could give better than 0.5 meV resolution using special analyzers.
The picture that arises from these considerations is one of spherical analyzer main-line instruments with the PSC
instruments having a niche assuming the count-rates are sufficiently high. Longer term development of PSC optics is
also interesting in the context of future, higher flux, sources, or possibly the now more exotic "spectrograph" or "echo"
configurations.
*

The NSLS-II PSC setup has achieved 1.3 meV resolution, FWHM, but in fact is now aiming at 2 meV resolution to help improverates (Private communications from Y.Q. Cai).

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4.9 Electronic Excitation with a High Resolution Spectrometer
It is interesting to consider the possibility to extend high-resolution method to higher energy transfers to measure, forexample, electronic excitations, or high-energy vibrational modes. In a very high flux limit (e.g. the XFEL-O - seesection 1.3) one could dream about measuring phonons, localized excitations and band structure, all on the same
instrument with ~meV resolution (practically, probably, radiation damage issues may impose limits so force one totailor the resolution to the particular science of interest). Along these lines, there has been some work to extend theusual ~0.1 eV scale scans in backscattering to the few eV level. This is straightforward for a typical in-line HRM
design, but requires some effort for a backscattering monochromator. However, one can replace standard coolants witha specialized liquid (e.g. silicone oils) viable down to about -80C and then cool the backscattering crystal: this gives one
a scan range of ΔE E = Δd d ~ 20 ppm, between +30 and -60 degrees C in silicon - or about 3 eV at 15.816 keV.
Figure 17 shows an example of measuring a d-d excitation in nickel oxide NiO and phonons with the same over-all ~7
meV resolution. The reduced intensity of the d-d excitation, scattering from a fraction of an electron per unit cell, as
compared to the LA phonon, where full atoms of electrons move together, is very clear: the d-d excitation is down byalmost 4 orders of magnitude in peak intensity compared to the phonon, and about 3 orders in integrated intensity.

Figure 17. Phonon and d-d excitation in NiO with 7 meV resolution. (Baron, et al, unpublished)

None-the-less, the experiments are possible, with more complex structure visible in the d-d excitation. However,attempts to move beyond this demonstration experiment using a high-resolution spectrometer have not yet beensuccessful due to the limited flux: NiO appears to be a particularly high count-rate case. Thus this work will be
continued using a smaller (2 m) radius analyzer crystals to gain solid angle and improve count-rates with ~25 meVresolution (Ishikawa, et al., 2017). Considering high-energy transfer more generally, 3 meV-resolution IXS has also
been used to measure the hydrogen vibron/diatomic stretching mode (at about 500 meV) in both liquid and solidhydrogen in a DAC (Liu, et al.), and somewhat similarly, the stretching mode in liquid nitrogen with ~10 meV
resolution at slightly lower (~300 meV) energy transfer (Monaco, et al., 2001). It is perhaps worth emphasizing that inmany cases there are intrinsic sources of broadening at larger energy transfers (e.g. phonons for electronic excitations(Ishikawa, et al., 2017), or recoil for liquids, see eqn (10)) that may allow larger bandwidths to be used without strongly
negatively impacting the measurement result.

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5. Sample Science
5.1 Introduction and Overview
IXS has been used to investigate the atomic dynamics of many different types of samples, in different conditions, andalso to look some more basic physical quantities. While the field was initially dominated by studies of liquids andglasses, the possibility to investigate small samples coupled with generally clean data (see section 1.4) has led to workon many types of crystalline materials.
Probably the largest areas of work have been investigations ofsuperconductors, charge density wave (CDW) materials and ferrorelectric (& related) materials - these are fields inwhich phonons are, classically, known to play an important role in the material properties.
We will treat
superconductors in some depth below, providing motivation for the measurements and examples of the data obtained.
As regards the other materials, tables 6a and 6b give a list of materials and references. The listing is broken up intolarger categories (superconductors, CDW materials, ferroelectric, multiferroic and relaxor materials, cagecompounds, quasicrystals, actinides) and a list of samples that do not fall so easily into one of the above categories.
This is followed, at the bottom of table 6b, by a list of, mostly, high-pressure measurements carried out in diamondanvil cells (DACs). The majority of the DAC work is on geologically relevant materials, with the goal of determining
acoustic wave velocities for comparison with seismic measurements of earth's interior, but there are also some wherepressure is more just taken as another thermodynamic variable to drive the system of interest into different phases. For
the tables 6a and 6b the listed references are examples, and are not exhaustive: readers are strongly encouraged tosupplement this list with their own literature searches.
Finally we mention a few papers with a different, more methodological, aspect. These include studies aiming to detect
the phonons in the first ~nm of a surface using an extreme grazing incidence geometry (Murphy, et al., 2005) (Reichert,
et al., 2007) (Wehinger, et al., 2011), investigation of an OH stretching mode at very high , ~300 meV, energy transfer(Winkler, et al., 2008), investigation of x-ray form factors at low Q (Alatas, et al., 2008), investigation of two-phonon
contributions (Baron, et al., 2007) and a way of determining elastic constants by fitting to Christoffel's equation (Fukui,
et al., 2008). Issues relating to measurements of densities of states and powders, as opposed to single crystals are also
discussed in (Bosak & Krisch, 2005)(Fischer, et al., 2009) and application of sum rules in a nearly atomic-Compton
limit in (Monaco, et al., 2002).
Conventional
Superconductors

Cuprates
Related&MgB2 & Mg(B1-xCx)2,
Mg1-xAlB2NaCoO2
Boron Doped Diamond
CaC6
CaAlSi
MgCNi3Ba1-xKxBiO3
SrPt3P
VsSi
Nd1.86Ce0.14CuO4+δ
Ca2-xCuO2Cl2
La2-xSrxCuO4
La2-xBaxCuO4+ δ
La1.48Nd0.4Sr0.12CuO4
Bi2Sr1.6La0.4Cu2O6+ δ
HgBa2CuO4+ δ
YBa2Cu3O7- δIron Pnictides &Nematicity &Related"1111" Materials
LaFeAsO1-y, etc.
"122" Materials
BaFe2As2, etc.
“11” Materials,
FeSe, etc.

(Shukla, et al., 2002) (Baron, et al., 2004)(d’Astuto, et al.,2007)(Baron, et al., 2007)(Baron, et al., 2007)(d’Astuto, et al., 2016)(Rueff, et al., 2006)(Hoesch, et al., 2007) (Caruso, et al., 2017)(Upton, et al., 2007) (d’Astuto, et al., 2010)(Kuroiwa, et al., 2008)(Hong et al. 2010)(Khosroabadi, et al., 2011)(Zocco, et al., 2015)(Sauer, et al., 2019)(d’Astuto, et al., 2002)(D’Astuto, et al., 2013)(Lebert, et al., 2020)(Fukuda, et al., 2005)(Ikeuchi, et al., 2006) (Graf, et al., 2007) (Park,et al., 2014)(d’Astuto, et al., 2008)(Reznik, et al., 2008)(Graf, et al., 2008)(d’Astuto, et al., 2003) (Uchiyama, et al., 2004)(Baron, et al., 2008) (Blackburn, et al., 2013) (Le Tacon, et al., 2013)(Souliou, et al., 2018)(Fukuda, et al., 2008) (Le Tacon, et al., 2008)(Le Tacon, et al.,2009)(Fukuda, et al., 2011)(Hahn, et al., 2013)(Reznik, et al., 2009) (Mittal, et al., 2010) (Lee, et al., 2010)(Niedziela, et al., 2011)(Murai, et al., 2020) (Merritt, et al., 2020)

Table 6a: List of some samples investigated by IXS and references. 6a. Focusses on superconductors, however, other papers on
superconductors may also appear below in other categories (e.g. CDW materials in table 6b) Readers are encouraged to supplement
the table with their own literature search.

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Charge Density
Wave (CDW) &Related

NbSe3
Rb0.3MoO3, "blue bronze"
Te-IIINbSe2, NbS2
ZrTe3, TbTe3, DyTe3
TiSe2
Cuprates

Ferroelectric,
Multiferroic,
Relaxors
Related&Pb(In0.5Nb0.5)O3
SrTiO3
TbMnO3,
Sr1-xBxMnO3
EuTiO3BiFeO3
PbZr1-xTixO3

Magneto-Elastic
Coupling
ThermalConductivity &related, inc. Cage
Compounds

Quasicrystals
Related&Actinides

Graphite
Related&PbHfO3TiO2
SnTe
CuCrO2
Bi2SiO5(Ca,Sr)3Ti2O7
Cu3Bi(SeO3)2O2Cl
SrFe2As2
EuO
LiCrO2
Methane Hydrate
Skutterudites
LaRu2Zn20
Sodium Cobaltate
PbTe1-xSex(CH3NH3)3Bi2I9
Si1-xGex
i-AlPdMn,
MgZnY,
ZnMgSc, MgZnPu-u, U, PuCoGa5,
NpFeAsO,
NpO2, URu2Si2, UO,
UO2Graphite
Graphite Intercalation(Requardt, et al., 2002)(Ravy et al. 2004)(Loa, et al., 2009)(Murphy, et al., 2005)(Weber, et al., 2011), (Weber, et al., 2013)(Leroux, et al., 2012)(Leroux, et al., 2015)(Leroux, et al., 2018)(Hoesch, et al., 2009) (Maschek, et al., 2015)(Maschek, et al., 2018)(Maschek, et al., 2016)(Blackburn, et al., 2013)(Le Tacon, et al., 2013)(Souliou, et al.,2018)(Miao, et al., 2018)(Ohwada, et al., 2008)(Hong, et al., 2008)(Shih-Chang Weng, et al., 2014)(Kajimoto, et al., 2009)(Sakai, et al., 2011)(Sakai, et al., 2012)(Ellis, et al., 2012) (Ellis, et al., 2014)(Borissenko, et al., 2013)(Hlinka, et al., 2011)(Tagantsev, et al., 2013)(Burkovsky, et al.,2014)
(Burkovsky, et al., 2015)(Wehinger, et al., 2016)(O’Neill, et al., 2017)(Bansal, et al., 2017)(Girard, et al., 2018)(Bansal, et al., 2019)(Milesi-Brault, et al., 2020)(Murai, et al., 2016)(Pradip, et al., 2016)(Tóth, et al., 2016)(Baumert, et al., 2003)(Baumert, et al., 2005)(Rotter, et al., 2008)(Tsutsui, et al., 2008)(Koza, et al., 2011)(Tsutsui,
et al., 2012)(Wakiya, et al., 2016)(Voneshen, et al., 2013)(Tian, et al., 2015)(Kuna, et al., 2016)(Ma, et al., 2019)(Usuda, et al., 2020)(Brand, et al., 2001)(Krisch, et al., 2002)(Brand, et al., 2004)(DeBoissieu, et al., 2007)(Euchner, et al., 2011)(Wong, et al., 2003) (Manley, et al., 2003) (Wong, et al., 2005)(Manley, et al., 2006) (Raymond, et al., 2006) (Manley, et al., 2009)(Walters, et al., 2011)(Klimczuk, 2015)(Maldonado, et al., 2016)(Gardner, et al., 2016)(Rennie, et al., 2018)(Brubaker, et al., 2019)(Mohr, et al., 2007)(Bosak, et al., 2007)(Grüneis, et al., 2009)(d’Astuto, et al., 2010)(Upton, et al., 2010)(Walters, et al., 2011)

Table 6b: List of samples investigated by IXS and references, continued. Readers are encouraged to supplement the table with
their own literature searches.

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OtherMaterials

High
Pressure,
Elasticity,
Geoscience,& Related

CeRu2Si2
Benzoic Acid
SiC
DNA
Lipid Membranes
Boron Nitride, BN
Boron Arsenide, BAs
Vanadium
NaBH4
BeO
Asbestos
NiO
ReB6
Rare-EarthHexaborides
Ce
Nd
Fe3O4, Magnetite
LaCoO3
Ba3CuSb2O9
RTi2O7 R=Tb, Dy, Ho
La0.7Sr0.3MnO3Quantum Well
InGaAs/GaAsP
ScN
ScF3 , HgI2
M2Mo6Se6(M=K,Rb,Cs,In,Tl)
FeSi
MoB2
Ta2NiSe5(Pr.85Y.15)0.7Ca0.3CoO3-d
MoS2
Pure Fe & Related
FeO, FeSi, FeS, FeS2FeNi
Mg1−xFexO
FeH
Fe3S
l-FeNiS
FeCO3, CaCO3, MgCO3
Bridgmanite, MgSiO3
CaIrO3
MgO
Ar
Co
Mo
Ta
Au
Sb

(Raymond, et al., 2001)(Plazanet, et al., 2005)(Strauch, et al., 2006)(Liu, et al., 2005) (Krisch, et al., 2006)(Zhernenkov, et al., 2016)(Bolmatov, et al., 2017)(Bosak, et al., 2006)(Serrano, et al., 2007)(Ma, et al., 2016)(Bosak, et al., 2008)(Chernyshov, et al., 2008)(Bosak, et al., 2008)(Mamontov, et al., 2009)(Uchiyama, et al., 2010)(Iwasa, et al., 2011) (Iwasa, et al., 2012) (Iwasa, et al., 2014)(Krisch, et al., 2011) (Loa, et al., 2012)(Waller, et al., 2016)(Hoesch, et al., 2013) (Bosak, et al., 2014)(Doi, et al., 2014)(Wakabayashi, et al., 2016)(Ruminy, et al., 2016)(Maschek, et al., 2016)(Xia, et al., 2017)(Uchiyama, et al., 2018)(Occhialini, et al., 2017)(Gannon, et al., 2018)(Miao, et al., 2018)(Zhang, et al., 2019)(Nakano, et al., 2018)(Phelan, et al., 2019)(Tornatzky, et al., 2019)(Fiquet, et al., 2001) (Antonangeli, et al., 2004)(Mao, et al.,2008)(Hosokawa, et al., 2008) (Ohtani, et al., 2013) (Mao, et al.,2012) (Liu, et al., 2014)(Nakajima, et al., 2015) (Jin, et al., 2016)(Badro, et al., 2007)(Kantor, et al., 2007)(Fukui, et al., 2017)(Finkelstein, et al., 2018)(Shibazaki, et al., 2012)(Kamada, et al., 2014)(Kawaguchi, et al., 2017)(Umemoto, et al., 2014)(Stekiel, et al., 2017) (Stekiel, et al., 2019)(Fukui, et al., 2016) (Björn, et al., 2016)(Yoneda, et al., 2014)(Ghose, et al., 2006) (Fukui, et al., 2008) (Antonangeli, et al.,2011)(Giura, et al., 2019)(Occelli, et al., 2001)(Antonangeli, et al., 2004) (Antonangeli, et al., 2005) (Antonangeli,
et al., 2008)(Farber, et al., 2006)(Antonangeli, et al., 2010)(Zhang, et al., 2019)(Yoneda, et al., 2017)(Minelli, et al., 2019)

Table 6c: List of samples investigated by IXS and references, continued. Readers are encouraged to supplement the table with
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5.2 Superconductors
5.2.1 Background
Superconductors and related materials are an active area of IXS investigation, in part due to the fact that they are abroad and active field in materials science, but also specifically because of the phonon-mediated nature of conventional(BCS (Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer) or Migdal-Eliashberg) * superconductors. However, there is also great interest in thephonon behavior of non-conventional superconductors, including cuprates and iron-related materials (pnictides). While
the wider field of superconductivity is certainly dominated by a focus on electronic properties, phonon investigations do
provide insight, with the normal state phonon properties being an indicator of the potential for phonon-mediatedsuperconductivity, and the general behavior of the phonons providing support (or not) for the same calculations thatsometimes indicate the nature of the superconductivity. Also, in some, rare, cases, the onset of superconductivity canbe observed to affect phonon spectral properties.
The relationship between phonon spectral properties and classical, phonon-mediated, superconductivity was explored ina series of papers by Allen and collaborators, largely in the 1970s, ((Allen, 1972; Allen & Cohen, 1972; Allen &Silberglitt, 1974; Allen & Dynes, 1975) (Allen & Dynes, 1975), see the review (Allen, 1980) and also the book
(Grimvall, 1981)) with more recent work of note also (Allen, et al., 1997). One of the main results was to establish arelationship between the electron-phonon coupling, epc, parameter, λ (also called the mass-enhancement parameter),and the normal-state phonon line-width (half-width at half maximum - HWHM), γ qj ,

λ =
=

2 1
π N0 Nq
1
Nq

= 2

∑λ

γ qj

∑ω
qj

qj

2

qj

(49)

qj

∞

∫ α F (ω ) / ω
20

where N 0 is the density of electronic states at the Fermi surface.

The second equation defines the mode andmomentum-transfer-specific electron-phonon coupling parameter and the third equations relates λ to the α F as it
appears in Eliashberg theory (see, e.g. (Allen & Mitrovic, 1982)). Carefully speaking, the line-width mentioned here
is only that part due to electron-phonon coupling - other contributions, such as that from phonon-phonon scatteringmust be subtracted out before applying these formulas.
2

The electron-phonon coupling parameter, λqj , can be considered an average over λqjkn→n'k '=k+q linking
interaction of a phonon mode, j, with momentum q to a transition of an electronic state with momentum k in band n to a
momentum k ' = k + q in band n'. Phonon measurements by IXS then allow selection of a particular phonon mode andmomentum transfer, q, but integrate over the electronic system, providing partially resolved information. Thus,
assuming the line width due to epc can be clearly determined, IXS can complement angle-resolved photoemission
spectroscopy (ARPES): ARPES, with some experimental caveats, allows investigation of particular electron bands andenergies, but integrates over the phonon structure, while IXS investigates phonons but integrates over the electronic
structure. In the context of band structure and ARPES work, the phonon momentum should be considered as a
candidate for a nesting vector, and not confused with a real electronic momentum. Meanwhile tunneling spectra
2

provide a more direct measurement of α F .
The connection between the electron-phonon coupling parameter and the critical temperature for the onset ofsuperconductivity can be made using Eliashberg theory. A numerical approximation to solutions of the Eliashberg
equations is possible with the results modeled using one of a number of "McMillan" formulas (McMillan, 1968) (Allen& Dynes, 1975) such as*

Here we will use "BCS" to refer to the original discussion (Bardeen, et al., 1957) where phonons were introduced in a weakcoupling limit without an explicit relation between the coupling and the detailed phonon spectra, while Eliashberg theory (Eliashberg,1960) allowed a direct relation based on application of Migdal's approximation (Migdal, 1958) ignoring vertex corrections effectively assuming interesting electronic states have energies are much larger than phonon energies.

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Tc ≈
where

⎧⎪
1.04 (1+ λ ) ⎫⎪ω
exp ⎨−** ⎬ (50)
1.2⎩⎪ λ − µ − 0.62 λµ ⎭⎪ω is an average phonon frequency (with pre-factors - see discussion in (Allen & Dynes, 1975)). µ * describes*

the effective Coulomb repulsion which is not easy to calculate and is usually taken as µ ≈ 0.1− 0.15 (see discussion in(Bauer, et al., 2013) and an attempt in (Floris, et al., 2005)), though a method of calculation allowing solution of theEliashberg equations directly in a density functional approach (Lüders, et al., 2005) circumvents this, as has been
applied (Akashi, et al., 2015), recently, to estimate the observed (Drozdov, et al., 2015) record (~200K)
superconducting transition temperature of sulfur hydride under pressure.
The relation between phonon line width and the onset of superconductivity is part of what makes IXS measurements ofsuperconductors interesting. In principle, based on the above discussion, if one can measure the line width of all thephonons of a sample in the normal state, and isolate the part due to epc, one can determine λ, or, more precisely, λ N 0
and eventually Tc. However, this is generally hard, as line widths are generally difficult to measure, and the electronphonon line widths are often not large (sub-meV), and there can be line width contributions from other processes suchas phonon-phonon scattering. Thus, practical phonon investigations of superconductors tend to fall into one of several
categories: (1) measurements of phonon dispersion and line widths over targeted regions of momentum space to spotcheck (or invalidate) calculations; (2) general investigations of phonons to look for anomalous dispersion and/or broadlines or (3) measurements of doping dependence to observe possible softening and/or line broadening that may suggest
changes in electron-phonon coupling with doping. It is also possible to measure the temperature dependence of phononmodes as one passes through Tc, however, while an intriguing experiment conceptually, often there are no noticeable
effects. We will discuss several examples below, focusing first on conventional superconductors and then on high Tc
materials (cuprates and pnictides).

5.2.2 Conventional Superconductors
Inelastic x-ray scattering measurements on conventional superconductors began, to a large extent, after Akimitsu's
group (Nagamatsu, et al., 2001) demonstrated the surprisingly high superconducting transition temperature, Tc = 39K,
of MgB2 and then calculations (Bohnen, et al., 2001; Kong, et al., 2001; Yildirim, et al., 2001) suggested MgB2 was a

Figure 18. Dispersion and linewidth of MgB2. The left panel shows the dispersion and the softening along the MΓ
direction through the large Kohn anomaly while the right panel shows the change in linewidth, and the re-scaled to λqj. In
each case, the lines are results LDA-based ab-initio calculations, with dashed lines indicating modes that are symmetry
forbidden in the chosen geometry. The inset to the left panel shows mode polarizations for the two E2g modes at Γ (mode 1 isthe one that was investigated by IXS) After (Baron, et al., 2004) (Baron, et al., 2007)

phonon-mediated superconductor, with extremely large electron-phonon coupling between the "sigma" Fermi-surface
sheets (two warped cylinders about the Γ-A axis - from (000) to (00 1/2)) and the in-plane boron-boron stretching
phonon modes with E2g symmetry at Γ. Thus it was expected that huge effects should be visible in phonon spectra.
However, MgB2 is difficult to grow, requiring high-pressure synthesis to obtain single crystals (see, e.g., (Lee, et al.,2001)), so samples are small, a fraction of a cubic mm. First phonon measurements at zone center, gamma, werecarried out by Raman scattering and the Raman-active E2g mode was found to have line-widths that were large possibly even larger than theory - and a somewhat unusual shape (Bohnen, et al., 2001; Goncharov, et al., 2001; Hlinka,52

et al., 2001; Quilty, et al., 2002). While apparently confirming the main broadening, the interpretation of these spectra
is not simple, as, on the one hand, part of the electron phonon coupling might not be allowed exactly at gamma(Calandra & Mauri, 2005) and, on the other, interactions with the entire electron-phonon spectrum might significantly
affect the line shape (Cappelluti, 2006).
Given the above issues for the Raman scattering, and the limited sample size, IXS is a very interesting probe forphonons in MgB2. Initial work confirmed the line width of the E2g mode was broad along Γ-A (Shukla, et al., 2002),
followed by demonstration that the line width along Γ-M (essentially through the huge Kohn anomaly in the (100)direction), went from resolution limited for wave vectors too large to span the sigma sheets to nearly 20 meV as one
moved inside the sigma Fermi-surfaces and the mode softened (Baron, et al., 2004). This can be seen in the fit resultsof figure 18, or even directly in the spectra in figure 19. The highest energy mode (that is not symmetry forbidden)
shows both extreme softening and simultaneously a very large increase in width, as one moves inward from the M point
to the gamma point. The importance of this softening and broadening for superconductivity is corroborated by the
results on carbon-doped Mg(B1-xCx)2. Here the superconducting transition temperature can be reduced from 39K to 2.5
K by doping in C in place of B, which tends to fill the sigma surface. The very nice correlation of the phonon
dispersion with the change in Tc as seen in figure 19 then helps to cement the picture of electron-phonon couplinggraphically, though the detailed behavior is not yet in accordance with theoretical estimates (see discussion in (Baron, etal., 2007)).

x=0.02 Tc= 35.5K

x=0.13 Tc= 2.5K

(2.37,0,0.01)(2.37,0,0.01)

050(2.29,0,-0.03)100

050 (2.29,0,0.03)100

050 (2.22,0,0.03)
100

0

50

0

50(2.13,0,-0.01)100

050(2.13,0,0.01)
100

0

50

0

100

50

100
(2.22,0,-0.03)

100

Energy Transfer [meV]

Energy Transfer [meV]Figure 19. Phonon spectra of carbon doped MgB 2 (Mg(B 1-xCx)2) at room temperature. The red line highlights thesoftening of the E2g mode as the gamma (200) point is approached. There is no softening in the carbon-doped material,
qualitatively consistent with the severely reduced critical temperature. After (Baron, et al., 2007).

Boron doped diamond is another superconductor that garnered significant interest after its discovery in 2004 (Ekimov,
et al., 2004). Here one can dream about marrying some of the excellent material properties of diamond (hardness,
exceptionally high thermal conductivity) with superconductivity, and further, since the nominal phonon energies arevery high (>~150 meV for diamond optical modes) it might be possible to have extremely strong electron-phonon
coupling (and the resulting softening) without introducing structural instability. The conceptual picture, based on LDA
pseudo-potential calculations, was that the boron doping creates Fermi-surface pockets about the Γ point with,somewhat similarly to MgB2, strong epc for small-momentum phonon wave vectors (Boeri, et al., 2004). However, thesuggestion was also that the 3-dimentional character of the epc would probably limit the achievable maximum Tc For
this sample, like MgB2, there was again, an issue with making large sample, with the largest samples only available asthin films, ~0.1 mm thick. However, by etching away the substrate, it was possible to isolate these films and measure

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Figure 20. Phonon softening in boron doped diamond (after (Hoesch, et al., 2007)). Measurements from thin
epitaxially grown ~0.1 mm films. The vertical scale in energy transfer in meV. The red triangles are a nominally
undoped material while the green circles (and blue squares) are boron doped samples. The softening of the LO mode
(red to green) and its increase in the neighborhood of the gamma point are in good qualitative agreement with estimatesfrom (Boeri, et al., 2004).

the phonon response using IXS, and indeed the expected softening of the phonon mode was observed (see figure 20)
confirming the nature of the superconductivity (Hoesch, et al., 2007).

5.2.3 Conventional Superconductors - Temperature Dependence
The immediately obvious experiment of investigating the temperature dependence of phonon spectra as one cools asuperconductor below the superconducting transition temperature, has not yet been done (with a measured effect) using
IXS, though several experiments have been carried out using neutron scattering. Here we discuss some of the INS
results in part to round out the discussion of phonons in conventional superconductors, in part to set the scene fordiscussions to follow, and in part because the results are pretty and the, mostly, good agreement with theory supports
the microscopic picture of electron-phonon coupling in conventional superconductors. In general, the measured
phonon changes tend to be small (meV scale or smaller) and the largest effects appear for low energy phonons(generally those with energy <~ twice the gap energy, E<~2Δ) so that it is understandable that neutron scattering, withthe potential for better energy resolution, has been the investigative method of choice for these experiments. Clear
effects were observed using INS in the 70s, first with Nb3Sn with its relatively high Tc=18K (Axe & Shirane, 1973) andlater even the sub 100-µeV effects in Sn (Tc=9.2K) became observable (Shapiro, et al., 1975) allowing careful mapping
to be done. The observed changes can be understood based on the idea that opening of the superconducting gap in theelectronic density of states prevents a phonon with energy less than 2Δ from decaying into an electron hole pair. Thus,
phonon modes with energy smaller 2Δ lose a decay path and have a resulting increase in lifetime - the line width of
low-energy phonon modes tends to narrow when the temperature is reduced. At the same time, there will be a build-up

Figure 21.
Superconductivity induced phononlineshape changes in YNi2B2C after (Weber, et al.,2008). The top panel shows the spectra measured byinelastic neutron scattering while the lower panel the
calculations based on (Allen, et al., 1997) both before
and after convolving in the resolution.
FigureCopyright (2008) by The American Physical Society.

in the electronic density of states at energies just above the gap, leading to enhanced coupling, and increased broadening,for modes with energy just above 2Δ.
The interesting case of what happens when the phonon energy is near 2Δ was investigated in the nickel borocarbides,with essentially similar effects observed first for YNi2B2C (Tc~14.2) (Kawano, et al., 1996) and then in LuNi2B2C
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(Tc~16.5K) (Stassis, et al., 1997). Theory (Allen, et al., 1997), at the level of eqn 30, then very beautifully explained
the rather complex line shapes with essentially no free parameters These experiments were then confirmed more
recently (Weber, et al., 2008), with the data and calculations shown in figure 21.

5.2.4 Cuprate Superconductors
The relevance of phonons to superconductivity in the cuprates remains debatable: most workers focus on othermechanisms with, depending on the paper (and sometimes the phonon mode), the phonons being superfluous, or pairenhancing, or pair breaking. In some cases, even the suggestion that there might be a relation between
superconductivity and phonons can lead to immediate disregard of subsequent discussion. Thus, here we try to take theconservative viewpoint that phonons are one component of a complex interacting system, that they have an energy scalethat is approximately that of the superconducting gap, and that, very generally, one can hope to learn something about asystem from its phonon spectra. As before, one looks for anomalies in the form of unusual dispersion, broad line
widths or, perhaps, unusual temperature dependence. A theoretically oriented review of phonons in cuprates can befound in (Gunnarsson & Rösch, 2008) while a recent experimental review including some results from both IXS and
INS is (Reznik, 2012).
There have been, mostly, two types of phonons that have generated interest in the cuprates: "buckling" modes
corresponding to a buckling of the Cu-O planes (having d-type symmetry at Γ) (see the movie in ESM13) and"stretching" (or half-breathing) modes which change the Cu-O bond distance (movie in ESM12). The buckling mode,
typically at 35 to 43 meV (depending on material and momentum transfer) is accessible by Raman scattering and shows
temperature dependence, with changes in line width and energy on ~meV scales appearing, most strongly, near andbelow Tc (Macfarlane & Rosen, 1987; Cooper, et al., 1988; Thomsen, et al., 1988). Meanwhile the longitudinal bondstretching mode (typically 60 to 80 meV in energy) is accessible only by INS and IXS with the interest being primarily
being rapid softening and increased in line-width as one moves in the (x00) or (0x0) directions in reciprocal space(Pintschovius & Reichardt, 1994). The interesting region is generally x~0.3+. More recently, the appearance of acharge density wave in under-doped YBCO (Ghiringhelli, et al., 2012), which also occurs also along (x00) with x~0.3
has revitalized interest in phonons.
Naively, cuprates are immediately interesting candidates for IXS. This is because it is difficult to produce the large size
samples needed for neutron scattering measurements, with, arguably, the only good sample available in "bulk" single
crystal form being La2-xSrxCu2O4, and some closely related materials, which have a relatively low TC<40K. The YBCO
family of materials are available, with effort, for some doping levels, but, for example, optimally doped samples are
generally twinned, while the Hg family is difficult to grow and dope, the Bi family tends to have strong long-range
structural modulations that blurs out the phonon response and the Tl family remains relatively unexplored. Thus, withaccess to small samples, one might expect that IXS could make a large impact for cuprate investigations. However,
IXS experiments on cuprates are severely hampered by low scattering rates coupled with a large unit cell size: theinteresting phonons are copper oxygen modes in a material with many heavier (Ba, Hg, Bi, Y) atoms that limit thepenetration into the sample (see discussion in section 4.8) so intensities are generally weak; while primitive cell sizes
start at 8 atoms per cell for HgBa2CuO4+d but are usually in fact rather larger (e.g. 13 atoms for YBa2Cu3O7-d) so
separating out individual modes can be challenging. In fact, studies of cuprates has been part of the motivation driving
the construction of the long insertion device beamline in RIKEN at SPring-8 (Baron, 2010).
Considering the bond-stretching mode first, there have been several studies including Nd1.86 Ce0.14 CuO4 (d’Astuto, et al.,2002), HgBa2CuO4+d, (Uchiyama, et al., 2004), Bi2Sr1.6La0.4Cu2O6+d (Graf, et al., 2008) La2-xSrxCuO4 (Fukuda, et al.,2005) (Ikeuchi, et al., 2006)(Graf, et al., 2007)(Park, et al., 2014), La2-xBaxCuO4+d (d’Astuto, et al., 2008) andLa1.48Nd0.4Sr0.12CuO4 (Reznik, et al., 2008). These have typically been done with either 3 or 6 (as opposed to 1.5) meV
resolution in order to maximize count-rates. The interesting points about this mode were that, at least in LSCO, it
tended to soften more, as the material is doped into the superconducting state and usually there is added broadening as
one moves out into the Brillouin zone in the (x00) direction with x>~0.25 (as previously seen by INS (Pintschovius &Reichardt, 1994)). The line width of the mode, typically ~5 meV or more, tends to be large on the scale of typicalelectron-phonon line widths (excepting extreme cases, like MgB2) and may be interesting. Initial interest in thesoftening of the mode with increasing x, however, has been reduced somewhat based on the results of LDA calculation
for both YBa2Cu3O7-d (Bohnen, et al., 2003), and La2-xSrxCuO4 (Giustino, et al., 2008) which show that the LDA
predicts the mode softens approximately in agreement with measurement - except that the measurements sometimes
show a sharp kink in dispersion near to 0.3. The calculations, however, do not predict the observed large line width ofthe mode. There has also been discussion of this mode (see e.g. (Graf, et al., 2008) in favor and (Park, et al., 2014)
against) as being related to kinks in photo-emission data (Lanzara, et al., 2001), as the energy of the kink is about that of
the bond-stretching phonon and the momentum transfer of the fast dispersion and onset of large line width agrees,
qualitatively, with a possible nesting vector of the of Fermi surface. While this idea remains to be well verified+

We use tetragonal notation where the [100] direction in real space is along the Cu-O bond and the [001] direction is normal to the
Cu-O plane. For the moment, and as is often done, we neglect differences between (100) and (010) though, for most materials, these
are not completely equivalent.

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quantitatively, it is interesting to consider - the more so as the momentum transfer corresponds to an apparent CDW
instability in some materials (Ghiringhelli, et al., 2012) as has also been verified by investigating acoustic phononmodes using IXS (Blackburn, et al., 2013) (Le Tacon, et al., 2013). We note that, in this context, the LDA calculations
are internally consistent in that the same calculations that fail to predict the large phonon line width also fail to predict
the kinks (Heid, et al., 2008)(Giustino, et al., 2008) - with the calculations under-estimating both the bond-stretching
phonon line width and the kink magnitude by about an order of magnitude. We note that the mode assignment in
Nd1.86 Ce0.14 CuO4 (d’Astuto, et al., 2002) has been called into question in (Braden, et al., 2005) while other work hassuggested that there might have been sample contamination for the over-doped La2-xSrxCuO4 (x=0.3) in (Fukuda, et al.,2005). Finally, we note the relatively good momentum resolution of the IXS work served to clarify (Reznik, et al.,2008) an interpretation based on INS (Reznik, et al., 2006).
IXS work on the buckling mode is limited compared to that on the stretching mode. The mode is at lower energy than
the stretching mode (~42 meV in YBCO) and, while visible with Raman scattering, is somewhat difficult to isolate byeither IXS or INS. So far, IXS and INS explorations have mainly been limited to bi-layer materials where, by a niceapplication of the phasing of phonon eigenvectors, one can, partly, isolate the mode by going to rather specificmomentum transfers (Fong, et al., 1995). The only published IXS study to date (Baron, et al., 2008), figure 3c, is inrough qualitative agreement with previous INS studies (Reznik, et al., 1995). However, the IXS studies would probably
benefit strongly from improved resolution, say, 1.5 meV instead of the 3 meV used previously, as should be relatively
straightforward at present-day spectrometers.

5.2.5 Iron Pnictide Superconductors
After the discovery of the high superconducting transition temperature in LaFeAsO1-y by Hosono's group (Kamihara, etal., 2008), a huge amount of work, including IXS, has been carried out to investigate these materials. Work has been
done on the "1111" family including LaFeAsO1-y, PrFeAsO1-y and NdFeAsO1-y where the La material has a relatively
low Tc~26K and the others, if optimally doped, are in the neighborhood of 50K (Ren, et al., 2008) and on the "122"materials such as (doped varieties of) BaFe2As2 and SrFe2As2 which tend to have slightly lower Tcs (e.g. Tc=38K for
Ba1-xKxFe2As2 (Rotter, et al., 2008)) and increasingly the "11" materials including FeSe. Sample growth is easiest for
122 and 11 materials where relatively large single crystals are readily available. The issues related to phonons and IXS
include (1) a tendency of the detailed superconducting properties to be rather sensitive to structure with, e.g. pressure
making large changes in Tc, suggesting strong lattice-superconductivity interaction and (2) the interaction of thephonons with magnetic order and, on some levels, the failure of density functional pseudo-potential calculations (3) the
possible impact of nematic (1-D) order. Notably, phonon measurements of optical modes in iron pnictide and relatedmaterials are much easier than in the cuprates, since (1) the interesting modes tend to involve higher-Z elements (ironand arsenic, as compared to oxygen in the cuprates) so have higher intensities, and (2) the structures are often simpler
so with fewer modes at each momentum transfer. Thus good IXS spectra can often be readily be obtained in few-hourscans.
Work in phonons in the iron based superconductors has tended to either be broader studies or tended to focus
specifically on the acoustic modes in the neighborhood of structural or super-conducting transitions (Niedziela, et al.,2011) (Parshall, et al., 2015): the TA modes tend to show anomalous (non-linear) dispersion at small momentum
transfers that has been associated with domain structure. Meanwhile the broader studies of optical modes show no
obvious anomalies but have frustratingly poor agreement with calculations. There are no modes with large line widthor strange dispersion (say, comparable to the bond-stretching mode of the curates) but the DFT calculations using nonmagnetic models generally have mode frequencies that are often higher than experiment, even when the experiments
are on materials without static magnetic order (e.g. the parent materials above the onset of magnetic order, or thesuperconducting materials that show no static magnetic order). Inclusion of static magnetic order in the calculations
then reduces the energy of some modes to be closer to measurement, but also predicts strong splitting of phonon modes
that does not agree with experiment. When comparing to calculations, the experimental results look both generally soft,and relatively isotropic, with only small differences (compared to the calculated ones) being induced by the onset ofmagnetic order, and essentially no difference with the onset of superconductivity.

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These issues are visible figure 22 where several different calculations are compared against an extensive data set on
PrFeAsO1-y. The "original" calculation (tetragonal, no magnetism) in (a) clearly over-estimates the energy of thehighest optical mode shown. Meanwhile, an effort to simulate the doping by adding an ordered oxygen vacancy and alarger (x4) primitive cell in (b) introduces many modes which are not observed. Adding static magnetic ordering to thecalculations in (c) with an orthorhombic structure leads improvement for one mode, but also strong splitting, e.g., of themode at ~30-35 meV, that is not observed, while removal of the structural orthorhombicity, but preservation of themagnetic order/orthorhombicity (d) does not make significant changes (i.e. the calculated splitting responds primarily to

Figure 22. Comparison of measured dispersion and calculations for PrFeAsO1-y (left) and SrFe2As2 (right). The lines
are calculated from one of several ab-initio models, with thickness of the lines indicating the expected phonon intensity. The
points are measured mode energies, with, for the PrFeAsO1-y, the point size indicating the mode intensity. In general theagreement between measurements and calculation is not very good until one allows averaging over magnetic calculations, as
was done for the SrFe2As2, with the improvement from the grey to light green lines (panel e) to model the paramagnetic(PM) response being especially clear, and the improvement by reducing the splitting from (f to g) also notable in the antiferromagnetic (AFM) phase (for panels f&g the two colors, red and blue, represent the two different orthorhombic dispersion
diretions). (PrFeAsO1-y after (Fukuda, et al., 2011), SrFe2As2 after (Murai, et al, 2016). Copyright by the American
Physical Society)the magnetic order).
Trying a series of ad-hoc modifications led to some improvement, but was not entirely
satisfactory (Fukuda, et al., 2011),. Recently some progress has been made by measuring a de-twinned sample (so theeffect of the onset of magnetic order on the phonons could be clearly identified) and considering fast magnetic
fluctuations to effectively collapse phonon lines, as is possible if the fluctuations occur more quickly than the time scale
set by the inverse (static) splitting of the lines (Murai, et al., 2016). This allows a calculated phonon that, if not in
perfect agreement with the data, is much better, and begins to approach the level of agreement of calculation for othermaterials.

6. Concluding Comments
This paper has summarized many of the issues relevant to using high-resolution inelastic x-ray scattering, IXS, tomeasure phonons in crystalline materials. The field is operating an advanced level, with several establishedspectrometers presently available. For users, the main advantage of these experiments is the relatively easy availabilityof clean spectra from small samples. This makes it possible to measure phonons of newly discovered materials, without
heroic efforts being needed to grow large single crystals. From the viewpoint of instrumentation, these flux-limited
experiments do push the limits of crystal optics, and remain challenging. At this time there is also a large opportunity
for improvement in data treatment, with the cleanliness of the data offering the possibility to fit the full spectra to
microscopic models.

7. Acknowledgements
I am grateful to several scientists who kindly read and offered comments on preliminary versions of this paper including
Sunil Sinha, Rolf Heid, Aleksandr Chumakov, Hiroshi Fukui, Kazuyoshi Yamada and Yuri Shvyd'ko. I thank thescientists who kindly shared some of the details of the beamlines with me, including Ahmet Alatas, Ayman Said,
Alexey Bosak, Claudio Masciovecchio and Yong Cai. I also thank people for useful relevant comments including F.
Weber and M. Sutton. The paper is based on work carried out at SPring-8. I would like to express my deep57

appreciation to the many people in all parts of SPring-8 that I have had the pleasure of working with over the last two
decades, as well as collaborators outside SPring-8. This work is based on experience gained during many proposals
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8. Electronic Supplementary Materials
Depending on the version, this paper has electronic supplementary materials that may be available with electronic
supplementary materials (ESM). These are a selection of movies of various phonons, designed to complement the text.
If you would do not have access to them and would like them, please contact the author.
Specific figures include
ESM1: Movie of a longitudinal acoustic (LA) mode in MgB2 near to Γ. The view is looking down the c-axis, small
grey spheres are B atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice while yellow spheres are represent Mg atoms.
File: baron_esm1_mgb2_la.mov
ESM2: Movie of a transverse acoustic (TA) mode in MgB2 near to Γ. (see notes on ESM1). Note the motion istransverse to the direction of correlation.
File: baron_esm2_mgb2_ta.mov
ESM3: Movie of a longitudinal optic (LO) mode in MgB2 near to Γ. (see notes on ESM1). Note the out-of-phase(anti-phase) motion of the atoms.
File: baron_esm3_mgb2_lo.mov
ESM4: Movie of a Transverse optic (TO) mode in MgB2 near to Γ. (see notes on ESM1). Note the out-of-phase(anti-phase) motion of the atoms.
File: baron_esm4_mgb2_to.mov
ESM5: Movie of the (low energy) LA mode near to Γ in CaAlSi. The view is perpendicular to the c-axis, with theplane of Ca atoms (white) alternating with the Al-Si planes (blue and red, respectively). Note all motions are inphase.
File: baron_esm5_cas_low_e_gamma.mov
ESM6: Movie of the (high energy) LO mode near to Γ in CaAlSi. Same view and colors as for ESM5. Note theanti-phase motion of the adjacent Al and Si.
File: baron_esm6_cas_high_e_gamma.mov
ESM7: Movie of the low energy mode near to zone boundary (0 0 0.5) in CaAlSi, which, by following thedispersion from Γ, is the acoustic mode. Same view and colors as for ESM5. Note the anti-phase motion of theadjacent Al and Si.
File: baron_esm7_cas_low_e_zb.mov
ESM8: Movie of the high energy mode near to zone boundary (0 0 0.5) in CaAlSi, which, by following thedispersion from Γ, is the optic mode. Same view and colors as for ESM5. Note the in-phase motion of theadjacent Al and Si.
File: baron_esm8_cas_high_e_zb.mov
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ESM9: Movie of the low energy mode near to the anti-crossing at (0 0 0.21) in CaAlSi, which, by following thedispersion from Γ, is the acoustic mode. Same view and colors as for ESM5. Note the polarization mixing.
File: File: baron_esm9_cas_low_e_ac.mov
ESM10: Movie of the high energy mode near to the anti-crossing at (0 0 0.21) in CaAlSi, which, by following thedispersion from Γ, is the optic mode. Same view and colors as for ESM5. Note the polarization mixing.
File: baron_esm10_cas_high_e_ac.mov
ESM11: Movie of a Fe-As optical mode in PrFeAsO. The lack of reflection symmetry about the Fe plane leads toelliptical atomic motions.
File: baron_esm11_pr1111_0_p25_0_m12.mov
ESM12: Movie of one of the bond-stretching modes in YBa2Cu3O7 near to Γ. Cu atoms are red, O white, Y yellow,
Ba blue. The c-axis is vertical.
File: baron_esm12_ybco_bs_3p02_0_0_m39.mov
ESM13: Movie of one of the buckling modes in YBa2Cu3O7 near to Γ. (see notes on ESM12)
File: baron_esm13_ybco_buck_0_0_0_m27.mov

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