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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 64, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.104430
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We report the effect of the two-body, spin-other-orbit interaction on the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy of the 3 d transition metals. The relevant energy differences were computed for bee Fe, fee Ni, and hep Co using a linearized augmented plane-wave method to solve the scalar relativistic Kohn-Sham equations in the local spin-density approximation. The spin-other-orbit interaction was incorporated at the level of the Hartree approximation. Special care was taken to guarantee the correctness of our numerical procedures. We find that the spin-other-orbit interaction does indeed change the anisotropy energy, but the effect is too small to account for the disagreement with experiment found in previous calculations for all three elements.
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