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arxiv: 1102.2614 · v1 · pith:7PEWQYCOnew · submitted 2011-02-13 · ❄️ cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Orbital magnetic moment and extrinsic spin Hall effect for iron impurity in gold

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keywords spingoldhallimpurityironorbitaleffectextrinsic
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We report electronic structure calculations of an iron impurity in gold host. The spin, orbital and dipole magnetic moments were investigated using the LDA+$U$ correlated band theory. We show that the {\em around-mean-field}-LDA+$U$ reproduces the XMCD experimental data well and does not lead to formation of a large orbital moment on the Fe atom. Furthermore, exact diagonalization of the multi-orbital Anderson impurity model with the full Coulomb interaction matrix and the spin-orbit coupling is performed in order to estimate the spin Hall angle. The obtained value $\gamma_S \approx 0.025$ suggests that there is no giant extrinsic spin Hall effect due to scattering on iron impurities in gold.

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