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It was claimed (Lloyd et al., PRL 108 (2012) 074802) that energy loss magnetic chiral dichroism (EMCD) with electron vortex beams is feasible, and has even advantages over the standard setup with Bragg diffracted waves. In this Comment, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-16 Peter Schattschneider , Stefan Löffler , Johan Verbeeck

Polarization-dependent photon spectroscopy (dichroism) using signal-enhancing superchiral beams is shown to be sensitive to magnetic properties of the sample, whereas previous investigations explored charge-like electronic properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-06 S. W. Lovesey , J. T. Collins , S. P. Collins

Energy-loss magnetic chiral dichroism (EMCD) allows for the quantification of magnetic properties of materials at the nanometer scale. It is shown that with the support of simulations that help to identify the optimal conditions for a…

Circular dichroism spectroscopy is an essential technique for understanding molecular structure and magnetic materials, but spatial resolution is limited by the wavelength of light, and sensitivity sufficient for single-molecule…

We propose a magnetic measurement method based on combining depth sectioning and electron magnetic circular dichroism in scanning transmission electron microscopy. Electron vortex beams with large convergence angles, as those achievable in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-14 Devendra Negi , Lewys Jones , Juan-Carlos Idrobo , Jan Rusz

When magnetic properties are analysed in a TEM using the technique of electron magnetic circular dichroism (EMCD), one of the critical parameters is the sample orientation, and this, independently on the chosen acquisition geometry. Since…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-16 Hasan Ali , Jan Rusz , Tobias Warnatz , Björgvin Hjörvarsson , Klaus Leifer

We report on a joint experimental and theoretical study of photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) in methyloxirane. By detecting O 1s-photoelectrons in coincidence with fragment ions, we deduce the molecule's orientation and photoelectron…

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism provides a means to identify ferromagnetic, chiral, and altermagnetic orders via their time-reversal-symmetry ($\mathcal{T}$) breaking. However, differentiating magnetic domains related by crystallographic…

We present the new planar extrinsic chirality metamaterial (ECM) design that manifests giant circular dichroism (CD) in the visible spectrum range rather than usual near-infrared and terahertz range. Effects of incident beam angles and…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-21 Seoungjun Lee , Zengbo Wang , Cheng Feng , Jiao Jiao , Ashfaq Khan , Lin Li

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) has become an important and powerful tool because it allows the study of material properties in combination with elemental specificity, chemical state specificity, and magnetic specificity. A new…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-19 Zhi-Ying Guo , Cai-Hao Hong , Hai-Ying Xing , Kun Tang , Wei Xui , Dong-liang Chen , Ming-Qi Cui , YI-Dong Zhao

Photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM) has evolved into an indispensable tool for structural and magnetic characterization of surfaces at the nanometer scale. In strong contrast to synchrotron-radiation-based X-ray PEEM as a leading…

We present a parameter-free method of extraction of the electron magnetic circular dichroism spectra from energy-filtered diffraction patterns measured on crystalline specimen. The method is based on multivariate curve resolution technique.…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-27 Shunsuke Muto , Kazuyoshi Tatsumi , Jan Rusz

Altermagnets are a new class of magnetic materials that are promising for spintronics technology. Here it is shown that in altermagnets, the circular dichroism (CD) in resonant photoelectron diffraction (RPED) contains a time-reversal odd…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-26 Peter Krüger

Magneto-optical microscopies, including optical measurements of magnetic circular dichroism, are increasingly ubiquitous tools for probing spin-orbit coupling, charge-carrier g-factors, and chiral excitations in matter, but the minimum…

We give an experimental demonstration of two types of recently proposed ventilator apertures which can be used to acquire electron magnetic circular dichroic (EMCD) signals in zone axis orientation with high spatial resolution. To simplify…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-01 Hasan Ali , Devendra Negi , Tobias Warnatz , Björgvin Hjörvarsson , Jan Rusz , Klaus Leifer

Magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) is a widely used spectroscopic technique which reveals valuable information about molecular geometry and electronic structure. However, the weak signal and the necessary strong magnets impose major…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Jiaan Cao , Lyuzhou Ye , Dawei He , Xiao Zheng , Shaul Mukamel

An efficient first principles approach to calculate X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) and X-ray natural circular dichroism (XNCD) is developed and applied in the near edge region at the K-and L1-edges in solids. Computation of…

We have analysed a number of experimental geometries (two and three-beam geometry, general systematic row setup, zone axis orientation) for the electron magnetic circular dichroism measurements (EMCD). The effect of asymmetries in those…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-21 J. Rusz

We present numerical simulations of x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) at the L$_{2,3}$ edge of Ni in the weakly ferromagnetic altermagnet NiF$_2$. Our results predict a significant XMCD signal for light propagating perpendicular to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-28 A. Hariki , K. Sakurai , T. Okauchi , J. Kuneš

The near-field interaction of plasmonic nanostructures and chiral molecules induces circular dichroism in achiral nanostructure. The induced circular dichroism (ICD) strength is several orders greater than the molecular inherent CD (MCD),…