Hg L3 edge absorption study of the HgBa2CuO4＋δsuperconductor

The HgBa2CuO4 δ superconductor has been studied by high resolution Hg L3 x-ray absorption near-edge structure(XANES)spectroscopy.The XANES spectrum has been simulated by full multiple-scattering calculations in order to xplore the origin of different features in the experimental spectrum.The experimental Hg L3-edge spectrum could be ewll reproduced by considering a cluster of 85 atoms,containing 10 shell,within a radius of about 7 A from the central Hg atom.The low energy spectral feature in the XANES spectrum is found to be due to aransition from the Hg p states to the electronic states hybridized with higher shell Ba atoms.This implies that the transition features in the Hg L3-edge XANES are strongly influenced by medium range order effects unlike the case of L3 edge of 3d transition metals where short-range order is enough to describe the main transition feansition featrues.