Abstract
X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) have been investigated at the edges of three heavy rare-earth elementary metals. In addition the XAS and XMCD spectra were calculated using a fully relativistic multiple scattering or Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker formalism. This allows disentanglement of electric dipole and electric quadrupolar transitions and serves for a better understanding of the details of the spectroscopic fine structure.
- Received 26 September 2006
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.75.064428
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