Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2019
Oxygen K-V (Kα) X-ray fluorescence spectra of MgO, Cu2O, CuO, La2CuO4, La2-xSrxCuO4, YBa2Cu3O7-x , and GdBa2Cu3O7-x are measured. The local (oxygen) and partial (2p) electron density of states (DOS) of these compounds are calculated by the cluster approximation with the discrete variational (DV) Hartree-Fock-Slater (Xα) method. The calculated O 2p DOS are compared with the measured X-ray fluorescence spectra. It is found that the measured 0 K-V X-ray fluorescence line shapes are well reproduced by the O 2p DOS calculated by a cluster including the second nearest neighbor atoms (oxygen atoms) in the solids. This indicates that the oxygen K-V X-ray emission spectra reflect the oxygen-oxygen orbital hybridization in the solid as well as the oxygen-metal orbital hybridization.