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Unquenched large orbital magnetic moment in NiO

S. K. Kwon, B. I. Min

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0003371

Abstract

Magnetic properties of NiO are investigated by incorporating the spin-orbit interaction in the LSDA+U scheme. It is found that the large part of orbital moment remains unquenched in NiO. The orbital moment contributes about muL = 0.29 muB to the total magnetic moment of M = 1.93 muB, as leads to the orbital-to-spin angular momentum ratio of L/S = 0.36. The theoretical values are in good agreement with recent magnetic X-ray scattering measurements.

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