Mechanism of resonant x-ray magnetic scattering in NiO

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2001-02-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0102342v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

10 pages (revtex) and 7 postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.63.184430

We study the resonant x-ray magnetic scattering (RXMS) around the K edge of Ni in the antiferromagnet NiO, by treating the 4p states of Ni as a band and the 3d states as localized states. We propose a mechanism that the 4p states are coupled to the magnetic order through the intra-atomic Coulomb interaction between the 4p and the 3d states and through the p-d mixing to the 3d states of neighboring Ni atoms. These couplings induce the orbital moment in the 4p band, and thereby give rise to the RXMS intensity at the K edge in the dipolar process. It is found that the spin-orbit interaction in the 4p band has negligibly small contribution to the RXMS intensity. The present model reproduces well the experimental spectra. We also discuss the azimuthal angle dependence of the intensity.

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