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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 96, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.174408
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- PSI
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- National Center of Competence in Research, Molecular Ultrafast Science, and Technology
- European Community's Seventh Framework Programme [290605]
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X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) and x-ray magnetic linear dichroism (XMLD) have been used to investigate the Fe magnetic response during the spin-reorientation transition (SRT) in TmFeO3. Comparing the Fe XMLD results with neutron-diffraction and magnetization measurements on the same sample indicates that the SRT has an enhanced temperature range in the near surface region of approximately 82 to 120 K compared to approximately 82 to 92 K in bulk. This view is supported by complementary resonant soft x-ray-diffraction experiments at the Tm M-5 edge. These measurements find an induced magnetic moment on the Tm sites, which is well described by a dipolar mean-field model originating from the Fe moments. Even though such a model can describe the 4f response in the experiments, it is insufficient to describe the SRT even when considering a change in the 4f anisotropy. Moreover, the results of the Fe XMCD show a different temperature evolution through the SRT, the interpretation of which is hampered by additional spectral shape changes of the XCMD signal.
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