Spin and orbital magnetic X-ray diffraction in HoFe<sub>2</sub>
S P Collins; D Laundy; G Y Guo; S P Collins; SERC Daresbury Lab., Warrington, UK; D Laundy; SERC Daresbury Lab., Warrington, UK; G Y Guo; SERC Daresbury Lab., Warrington, UK
Журнал:
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Дата:
1993-12-06
Аннотация:
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 HoFe<sub>2</sub> 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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