Magnetic circular x-ray dichroism in transverse geometry: Importance of noncollinear ground state moments
- 1 July 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 54 (2), R760-R763
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.54.r760
Abstract
The orbital and spin magnetic moment and the magnetic dipole term of transition metals are no longer collinear when the electron spins are forced out of the easy direction by an external magnetic field. This effect provides a simple way to measure with magnetic x-ray dichroism the anisotropy of the orbital magnetic moment and the magnetic dipole term in a geometry where the contribution of the spin magnetic moment disappears, i.e., with the photon helicity vector perpendicular to the magnetization direction.
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