Measuring the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in a weak ferromagnet

Nature Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 202-206

  Dmitrienko, V E ^a   Ovchinnikova, E N ^b   Collins, S P ^c   Nisbet, G ^c   Beutier, G ^d   Kvashnin, Y O ^e   Mazurenko, V V ^f   Lichtenstein, A I ^g   Katsnelson, M I ^f,h  

^a SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^f URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^h RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON COMPOUNDS; CALCULATIONS; FERROMAGNETISM; QUANTUM THEORY; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X RAY SCATTERING;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; DZYALOSHINSKII-MORIYA INTERACTION; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; INTER-ATOMIC DISTANCES; MAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; MAGNETOELECTRIC MATERIALS; THEORETICAL APPROACH; WEAK FERROMAGNETISM;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84897660859     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2859     Document Type: Article

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