E1 and E2 contributions to the L3 resonance line shape in antiferromagnetic holmium
Other Condensed Matter
2015-05-13 v1 Materials Science
Atomic Physics
Abstract
A detailed study of the angular, energy and polarization dependences of the electric dipolar (E1: 2p->5d) and quadrupolar (E2: 2p->4f) contributions to the x-ray scattering cross-section is presented for holmium in its basal plane spiral antiferromagnetic phase at the L3 edge. The corresponding E1 and E2 scattering factors have been extracted from fits to the experimental energy line shapes taking into account for the first time a split dipole resonance. Using the imaginary part of the resonant scattering factors to retrieve the XMCD spectrum, we find qualitative agreement with the dichroic spectrum measured in transmission through a holmium foil.
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@article{arxiv.0908.2504,
title = {E1 and E2 contributions to the L3 resonance line shape in antiferromagnetic holmium},
author = {L Bouchenoire and A Mirone and S D Brown and P Strange and T Wood and P Thompson and D Fort and J Fernandez-Rodriguez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.2504},
year = {2015}
}
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16 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables