SPIN AND ORBITAL MAGNETIC-X-RAY DIFFRACTION IN HOFE2

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作者
COLLINS, SP
LAUNDY, D
GUO, GY
机构
[1] SERC Daresbury Lab., Warrington
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10.1088/0953-8984/5/49/001
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O469 [凝聚态物理学];
学科分类号
070205 ;
摘要
We report the first direct measurements of spin/orbital magnetization ratios in a ferromagnetic material using x-ray diffraction. The simple technique, based on diffraction of elliptically polarized white synchrotron radiation, produces spin/orbital ratios that are independent of the precise photon polarization. Results from HoFe2 are shown to be generally in very close agreement with relativistic spin-polarized band calculations and known moments, but the measured orbital moment at the iron site is anomalously large.
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页码:L637 / L642
页数:6
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