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- Enhanced magneto-optical Kerr effect at Fe/insulator interfaces
説明
Using density functional theory calculations, we have found an enhanced magneto-optical Kerr effect in Fe/insulator interfaces. The results of our study indicate that interfacial Fe atoms in the Fe films have a lowdimensional nature, which causes the following two effects: (1) The diagonal component $\sigma_{xx}$ of the optical conductivity decreases dramatically because the hopping integral for electrons between Fe atoms is suppressed by the low dimensionality. (2) The off-diagonal component $\sigma_{xy}$ of the optical conductivity does not change at low photon energies, but it is enhanced at photon energies around 2 eV, where we obtain enhanced orbital magnetic moments and spin-orbit correlations for the interfacial Fe atoms. A large Kerr angle develops in proportion to the ratio $\sigma_{xy}$/$\sigma_{xx}$. Our findings indicate an efficient way to enhance the effect of spin-orbit coupling at metal/insulator interfaces without using heavy elements.
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- Physical Review B
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Physical Review B 96 (21), 214423_1-214423_6, 2017-12
American Physical Society (APS)
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- CRID
- 1050572590044425472
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- NII論文ID
- 120007188892
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- ISSN
- 24699969
- 24699950
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- 本文言語コード
- en
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- journal article
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