Manipulation of the spin-orbit coupling using the Dirac equation for spin-dependent potentials
- 15 March 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 53 (12), 7721-7726
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.53.7721
Abstract
A scheme is presented that allows us to manipulate the spin-orbit coupling in calculations based on the Dirac equation for spin-dependent potentials. To demonstrate its application, the spin and orbital magnetic moments for the disordered alloy as well as the Kerr rotation angle of pure Ni have been calculated as a function of the spin-orbit coupling strength. While the spin moment changes only slightly, the orbital moment as well as the Kerr rotation angle increase almost linearly with the spin-orbit coupling strength. © 1996 The American Physical Society.
Keywords
This publication has 35 references indexed in Scilit:
- Linear methods for fully relativistic energy-band calculationsJournal of Physics F: Metal Physics, 1979
- Improved Pauli Hamiltonian for local-potential problemsPhysical Review B, 1978
- Relativistic one‐particle equation for electron states of heavy metalsPhysica Status Solidi (b), 1978
- The scalar relativistic approximationZeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter, 1978
- A technique for relativistic spin-polarised calculationsJournal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 1977
- Relativistic scattered-wave theory by means of the elimination methodJournal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics, 1976
- The relativistic virial theorem by the elimination method and nonrelativistic approximations to this theoremJournal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics, 1975
- Tables of Basis Functions for Double Point GroupsJournal of the Physics Society Japan, 1966
- Relativistic Electronic Structure in Crystals. I. TheoryPhysical Review B, 1965
- Relativistic Band Structure and Fermi Surface of Thallium. IPhysical Review B, 1965