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1.	Krizek, Filip, et al. (author) Atomically sharp domain walls in an antiferromagnet 2022 In: Science Advances. - : American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). - 2375-2548. ; 8:13 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract The interest in understanding scaling limits of magnetic textures such as domain walls spans the entire field of magnetism from its physical fundamentals to applications in information technologies. Here, we explore antiferromagnetic CuMnAs in which imaging by x-ray photoemission reveals the presence of magnetic textures down to nanoscale, reaching the detection limit of this established microscopy in antiferromagnets. We achieve atomic resolution by using differential phase-contrast imaging within aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy. We identify abrupt domain walls in the antiferromagnetic film corresponding to the Néel order reversal between two neighboring atomic planes. Our work stimulates research of magnetic textures at the ultimate atomic scale and sheds light on electrical and ultrafast optical antiferromagnetic devices with magnetic field–insensitive neuromorphic functionalities.
2.	Bonnet, Cecilia, et al. (author) Eye Movements in Ephedrone-Induced Parkinsonism 2014 In: PLOS ONE. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1932-6203. ; 9:8, s. e104784- Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Patients with ephedrone parkinsonism (EP) show a complex, rapidly progressive, irreversible, and levodopa non-responsive parkinsonian and dystonic syndrome due to manganese intoxication. Eye movements may help to differentiate parkinsonian syndromes providing insights into which brain networks are affected in the underlying disease, but they have never been systematically studied in EP. Horizontal and vertical eye movements were recorded in 28 EP and compared to 21 Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, and 27 age- and gender-matched healthy subjects using standardized oculomotor tasks with infrared videooculography. EP patients showed slow and hypometric horizontal saccades, an increased occurrence of square wave jerks, long latencies of vertical antisaccades, a high error rate in the horizontal antisaccade task, and made more errors than controls when pro-and antisaccades were mixed. Based on oculomotor performance, a direct differentiation between EP and PD was possible only by the velocity of horizontal saccades. All remaining metrics were similar between both patient groups. EP patients present extensive oculomotor disturbances probably due to manganese-induced damage to the basal ganglia, reflecting their role in oculomotor system.
3.	Snezhkova, Olesia, et al. (author) Nature of the bias-dependent symmetry reduction of iron phthalocyanine on Cu(111) 2015 In: Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. - 1098-0121 .- 1550-235X. ; 92:7 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Subtle changes in the geometric and electronic properties of supported molecules, with a potential impact on the functioning of molecular devices, can typically be imaged by scanning probe microscopy, but their exact origin and nature often remain unclear. Here we show explicitly that the symmetry reduction of iron phthalocyanine upon adsorption on Cu(111) can be observed not only in scanning tunneling microscopy, but also in core-level spectroscopy, and that it is related to nonisotropic charge transfer into the two principal molecular axes, but in combination with topographic influences.
4.	Ali, Hasan, 1985-, et al. (author) Atomic resolution electron probe magnetic circular dichroism measurements enabled by patterned apertures Other publication (other academic/artistic)
5.	Ali, Hasan, 1985-, et al. (author) Atomic resolution energy-loss magnetic chiral dichroism measurements enabled by patterned apertures 2020 In: Physical Review Research. - College Park USA. - 2643-1564. ; 2:2 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Electron energy-loss magnetic chiral dichroism (EMCD) has the potential to measure magnetic properties of the materials at atomic resolution but the complex distribution of magnetic signals in the zone axis and the overlapping diffraction discs at higher beam convergence angles make the EMCD signal acquisition challenging. Recently, the use of ventilator apertures to acquire the EMCD signals with atomic resolution was proposed. Here we give the experimental demonstration of several types of ventilator apertures and obtain a clear EMCD signal at beam semiconvergence angles of 5 mrad. To simplify the experimental procedures, we propose a modified ventilator aperture which not only simplifies the complex scattering conditions but reduces the influence of lens aberrations on the EMCD signal as compared to the originally proposed ventilator apertures. In addition, this modified aperture can be used to analyze magnetic crystals with various symmetries and we demonstrate this feature by acquiring EMCD signals on different zone axis orientations of an Fe crystal. With the same aperture we obtain EMCD signals with convergence angles corresponding to atomic resolution electron probes. After the theoretical demonstration of the EMCD signal on a zone axis orientation at high beam convergence angles, this work thus overcomes the experimental and methodological hurdles and enables atomic resolution EMCD on the zone axis by using apertures.
6.	Ali, Hasan, 1985-, et al. (author) Noise-dependent bias in quantitative STEM-EMCD experiments revealed by bootstrapping 2024 In: Ultramicroscopy. - : Elsevier. - 0304-3991 .- 1879-2723. ; 257 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Electron magnetic circular dichroism (EMCD) is a powerful technique for estimating element-specific magnetic moments of materials on nanoscale with the potential to reach atomic resolution in transmission electron microscopes. However, the fundamentally weak EMCD signal strength complicates quantification of magnetic moments, as this requires very high precision, especially in the denominator of the sum rules. Here, we employ a statistical resampling technique known as bootstrapping to an experimental EMCD dataset to produce an empirical estimate of the noise-dependent error distribution resulting from application of EMCD sum rules to bcc iron in a 3-beam orientation. We observe clear experimental evidence that noisy EMCD signals preferentially bias the estimation of magnetic moments, further supporting this with error distributions produced by Monte-Carlo simulations. Finally, we propose guidelines for the recognition and minimization of this bias in the estimation of magnetic moments.
7.	Ali, Hasan, 1985-, et al. (author) Simultaneous mapping of EMCD signals and crystal orientations in a transmission electron microscope 2021 In: Scientific Reports. - : Springer Nature. - 2045-2322. ; 11 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract When magnetic properties are analysed in a transmission electron microscope using the technique of electron magnetic circular dichroism (EMCD), one of the critical parameters is the sample orientation. Since small orientation changes can have a strong impact on the measurement of the EMCD signal and such measurements need two separate measurements of conjugate EELS spectra, it is experimentally non-trivial to measure the EMCD signal as a function of sample orientation. Here, we have developed a methodology to simultaneously map the quantitative EMCD signals and the local orientation of the crystal. We analyse, both experimentally and by simulations, how the measured magnetic signals evolve with a change in the crystal tilt. Based on this analysis, we establish an accurate relationship between the crystal orientations and the EMCD signals. Our results demonstrate that a small variation in crystal tilt can significantly alter the strength of the EMCD signal. From an optimisation of the crystal orientation, we obtain quantitative EMCD measurements.
8.	Ali, Hasan, 1985-, et al. (author) Single scan STEM-EMCD in 3-beam orientation using a quadruple aperture 2023 In: Ultramicroscopy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0304-3991 .- 1879-2723. ; 251 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract The need to acquire multiple angle-resolved electron energy loss spectra (EELS) is one of the several critical challenges associated with electron magnetic circular dichroism (EMCD) experiments. If the experiments are performed by scanning a nanometer to atomic-sized electron probe on a specific region of a sample, the precision of the local magnetic information extracted from such data highly depends on the accuracy of the spatial registration between multiple scans. For an EMCD experiment in a 3-beam orientation, this means that the same specimen area must be scanned four times while keeping all the experimental conditions same. This is a non-trivial task as there is a high chance of morphological and chemical modification as well as non-systematic local orientation variations of the crystal between the different scans due to beam damage, contamination and spatial drift. In this work, we employ a custom-made quadruple aperture to acquire the four EELS spectra needed for the EMCD analysis in a single electron beam scan, thus removing the above-mentioned complexities. We demonstrate a quantitative EMCD result for a beam convergence angle corresponding to sub-nm probe size and compare the EMCD results for different detector geometries.
9.	Barthel, Juri, et al. (author) Simple model for phonon spectroscopy using fast electrons 2024 In: Physical Review B. - : American Physical Society. - 2469-9950 .- 2469-9969. ; 109:18 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract We propose a simple approach to simulating the phonon sector in electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS), as implemented in scanning transmission electron microscopy. Simplification of the problem is obtained by working with the phonon density of states (PDOS), a function of phonon energy, which is an integral over the details of the dispersion relations due to the correlated motions of the atoms. For a given PDOS, we derive a spectral distribution function, to distribute the total inelastic scattering, as calculated within the quantum excitation of phonons model, into an energy-loss/gain spectrum. The spectral distribution is obtained assuming a linear relationship between inelastic phonon scattering and atomic mean-squared displacements, a good approximation for phonon EELS with a detector covering only moderate scattering angles. We provide examples of the usefulness of the proposed approach in the modeling and interpretation of experimental phonon EELS data.
10.	Barthel, J., et al. (author) Understanding electron magnetic circular dichroism in a transition potential approach 2018 In: Physical Review B. - 2469-9950 .- 2469-9969. ; 97:14 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract This paper introduces an approach based on transition potentials for inelastic scattering to understand the underlying physics of electron magnetic circular dichroism (EMCD). The transition potentials are sufficiently localized to permit atomic-scale EMCD. Two-beam and three-beam systematic row cases are discussed in detail in terms of transition potentials for conventional transmission electron microscopy, and the basic symmetries which arise in the three-beam case are confirmed experimentally. Atomic-scale EMCD in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), using both a standard STEM probe and vortex beams, is discussed.
11.	Bhowmick, Somnath, et al. (author) X-ray absorption spectra : Graphene, h-BN, and their alloy 2013 In: Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. - 1098-0121 .- 1550-235X. ; 87:15, s. 155108- Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Using first-principles density functional theory calculations, in conjunction with the Mahan-Nozieres-de Dominicis theory, we calculate the x-ray absorption spectra of the alloys of graphene and monolayer hexagonal boron nitride on a Ni (111) substrate. The chemical neighborhood of the constituent atoms (B, C, and N) inside the alloy differs from that of the parent phases. In a systematic way, we capture the change in the K-edge spectral shape, depending on the chemical neighborhood of B, C, and N. Our work also reiterates the importance of the dynamical core-hole screening for a proper description of the x-ray absorption process in sp(2)-bonded layered materials.
12.	Biasini, M, et al. (author) Positron annihilation study of the electronic structure of URu2Si2 : Fermi surface and hidden order parameter 2009 In: Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. - 1098-0121 .- 1550-235X. ; 79:8, s. 085115- Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract The Fermi surface (FS) of URu2Si2 in the paramagnetic phase has been reinvestigated via the measurement of the two-dimensional angular correlation of the positron annihilation radiation. Unlike previous measurements our experiment provides evidence that density-functional theory gives a fair qualitative description of the FS, showing a large contribution from the 5f electrons, although the Fermi volume of electron and hole pockets determined experimentally is smaller than the theoretical description. Furthermore, we propose a method to investigate the nature of the hidden order responsible for the 17.5 K transition.
13.	Bidermane, Ieva, et al. (author) Experimental and theoretical study of electronic structure of lutetium bi-phthalocyanine 2013 In: Journal of Chemical Physics. - : American Institute of Physics (AIP). - 0021-9606 .- 1089-7690. ; 138:23, s. 234701- Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Using Near Edge X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS) Spectroscopy, the thickness dependent formation of Lutetium Phthalocyanine (LuPc2) films on a stepped passivated Si(100)2x1 reconstructed surface was studied. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were employed to gain detailed insights into the electronic structure. Photoelectron spectroscopy measurements have not revealed any noticeable interaction of LuPc2 with the H-passivated Si surface. The presented study can be considered to give a comprehensive description of the LuPc2 molecular electronic structure. The DFT calculations reveal the interaction of the two molecular rings with each other and with the metallic center forming new kinds of orbitals in between the phthalocyanine rings, which allows to better understand the experimentally obtained NEXAFS results.
14.	Calmels, Lionel, et al. (author) Atomic site sensitivity of the energy loss magnetic chiral dichroic spectra of complex oxides 2011 In: Journal of Applied Physics. - : AIP Publishing. - 0021-8979 .- 1089-7550. ; 109:7, s. 07D328- Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract The quantitative analysis of magnetic oxide core level spectra can become complicated when the magnetic atoms are located at several nonequivalent atomic sites in the crystal. This is, for instance, the case for Fe atoms in magnetite, which are located in tetrahedral and octahedral atomic sites; in this case, the x-ray magnetic circular dichroic (XMCD) spectra recorded at the L-2,L-3 edge of Fe contain contributions from the different nonequivalent atomic sites, which unfortunately cannot be separated. Energy loss magnetic chiral dichroic (EMCD) spectra are the transmission electron microscope analogies of the XMCD spectra. One of the important differences between these two techniques of magnetic analysis is that EMCD uses a fast electron beam instead of polarized light. The fast electrons behave like Bloch states in the sample, and the fine structure of the EMCD spectra is strongly influenced by channeling and dynamical diffraction effects. These effects can be adjusted by changing the experimental configuration. We use theoretical calculations, which include dynamical diffraction effects and in which electronic transitions are treated in the atomic multiplet formalism, to show that the relative weight of the Fe atoms in different nonequivalent atomic sites can be changed by a proper choice of the position of the detector and of the magnetite sample orientation and thickness. We conclude that EMCD spectra could be used to isolate the magnetic contribution of atoms in each of the nonequivalent atomic sites, which would not be possible with XMCD techniques. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3556769]
15.	Calmels, Lionel, et al. (author) Momentum-resolved EELS and EMCD spectra from the atomic multiplet theory : application to magnetite 2010 In: Ultramicroscopy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0304-3991 .- 1879-2723. ; 110:8, s. 1042-1045 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract While the energy loss near edge structures of metallic crystals can be calculated with a good accuracy using density functional theory based codes, core-level spectra of transition metal oxides show pronounced multiplet effects which are better described by atomic multiplet codes. We describe the formalism which allows to calculate momentum-resolved electron energy loss spectra in the electric dipole approximation from the atomic multiplet theory, and we apply this formalism to the calculation of energy loss magnetic chiral dichroic spectra of magnetic transition metal oxides. Explicit results are given for magnetite Fe3O4.
16.	Carvalho de Melo Rodrigues, Debora, et al. (author) Prediction of a Larger Local Magnetic Anisotropy in Permalloy Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract By means of relativistic, first principles calculations, we investigate the microscopic origin of the vanishingly low magnetic anisotropy of Permalloy. Analyzing the local magnetic anisotropy of these alloys, we find that it can be several orders of magnitude larger than that of the bulk sample, and at least one order of magnitude larger than that of Fe or Ni. We discuss these results in terms of local symmetries of the alloy, and point out that an analysis based on perturbation theory has the spin-orbit coupling entering as a second-order term, as opposed to the naively expected fourth order contribution. The relevance for these findings in experiments, e.g. using pump-probe investigations, is discussed, as well as the implications for building effective spin-Hamiltonians of Permalloy.
17.	Castellanos-Reyes, José Ángel, et al. (author) Unveiling the impact of temperature on magnon diffuse scattering detection in the transmission electron microscope 2023 In: Physical Review B. - : American Physical Society. - 2469-9950 .- 2469-9969. ; 108:13 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Magnon diffuse scattering (MDS) signals could, in principle, be studied with high spatial resolution in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), thanks to recent technological progress in electron energy-loss spectroscopy. However, detecting MDS signals in STEM is technically challenging due to their overlap with the much stronger thermal diffuse scattering (TDS) signals. In bcc Fe at 300 K, MDS signals greater than or comparable to TDS signals have been predicted to occur under the central Bragg disk, well into a currently inaccessible energy-loss region. Therefore, to successfully detect MDS in STEM, it is necessary to identify conditions in which TDS and MDS signals can be distinguished from one another in regions outside the central Bragg disk. Temperature may be a key factor due to the distinct thermal signatures of magnon and phonon signals. In this work, we present a study on the effects of temperature on MDS and TDS in bcc Fe-considering a detector outside the central Bragg disk and a fixed convergent electron probe-using the frozen phonon and frozen magnon multislice methods. Our study reveals that neglecting the effects of atomic vibrations causes the MDS signal to grow approximately linearly up to the Curie temperature of Fe, after which it exhibits less variation. The MDS signal displays an alternating behavior due to dynamical diffraction, instead of increasing monotonically as a function of thickness. The inclusion of the effects of atomic vibrations through a complex atomic electrostatic potential causes the linear growth of the MDS signal to change to a nonlinear behavior that exhibits a predominant peak for a sample of thickness 16.072 nm at 1100 K. In contrast, the TDS signal grows more linearly than the MDS signal through the studied temperature range but still exhibits appreciable dynamical diffraction effects. An analysis of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) shows that the MDS signal can be a statistically significant contribution to the total scattering intensity under realizable measurement conditions and feasible acquisition times. For example, our study found that a SNR of 3 can be achieved with a beam current of 1 nA in less than 30 min for the 16.072-nm-thick bcc Fe sample at 1100 K.
18.	Cedervall, Johan, et al. (author) Influence of cobalt substitution on the magnetic properties of Fe5PB2 2018 In: Inorganic Chemistry. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 0020-1669 .- 1520-510X. ; 57:2, s. 777-784 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract In this study the effects of cobalt substitutions in Fe5PB2 have been studied. An increased cobalt content reduces the magnetic exchange interactions. This has been concluded from a large, linear decrease in both the Curie temperature as well as the saturated magnetic moment. At high cobalt concentrations, cobalt prefers to order at the M(2) position in the crystal structure. A tunable Curie transition like this shows some prerequisites for magnetic cooling applications.The substitutional effects of cobalt in (Fe1–xCox)5PB2 have been studied with respect to crystalline structure and chemical order with X-ray diffraction and Mössbauer spectroscopy. The magnetic properties have been determined from magnetic measurements, and density functional theory calculations have been performed for the magnetic properties of both the end compounds, as well as the chemically disordered intermediate compounds. The crystal structure of (Fe1–xCox)5PB2 is tetragonal (space group I4/mcm) with two different metal sites, with a preference for cobalt atoms in the M(2) position (4c) at higher cobalt contents. The substitution also affects the magnetic properties with a decrease of the Curie temperature (TC) with increasing cobalt content, from 622 to 152 K for Fe5PB2 and (Fe0.3Co0.7)5PB2, respectively. Thus, the Curie temperature is dependent on composition, and it is possible to tune TC to a temperature near room temperature, which is one prerequisite for magnetic cooling materials.
19.	Delczeg-Czirjak, Erna K., et al. (author) Stabilization of the tetragonal distortion of Fe chi Co1-chi alloys by C impurities : A potential new permanent magnet 2014 In: Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. - 1098-0121 .- 1550-235X. ; 89:14, s. 144403- Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract We have analyzed by density functional theory calculations the structural and magnetic properties of Fe-Co alloys doped by carbon. In analogy with the formation of martensite in steels we predict that such a structure also forms for Fe-Co alloys in a wide range of concentrations. These alloys are predicted to have a stable tetragonal distortion, which in turn leads to an enhanced magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy of up to 0.75 MJ/m(3) and a saturated magnetization field of 1.9 T.
20.	Divis, M., et al. (author) The electronic structure and crystal field of RPt3Si (R = Pr, Nd, Sm) compounds 2007 In: Physica. B, Condensed matter. - : Elsevier BV. - 0921-4526 .- 1873-2135. ; 400:1-2, s. 114-118 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract First-principles calculations based on density-functional theory (DFT) were performed on RPt3Si (R = Pr, Nd, Sm) for the first time. The electronic density of states (DOS) and bonding properties were studied using relativistic full-potential APW plus local orbitals calculations. The crystal-field (CF) splitting was derived for NdPt3Si and SMPt3Si by fitting the temperature-dependent magnetic susceptibility. The starting estimate of the CF parameters for fitting procedure was obtained from first-principles calculations based on DFT.
21.	Duan, Yu Xia, et al. (author) Crystal electric field splitting and f -electron hybridization in heavy-fermion CePt2In7 2019 In: Physical Review B. - : AMER PHYSICAL SOC. - 2469-9969 .- 2469-9950. ; 100:8 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract We use high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to investigate the electronic structure of the antiferromagnetic heavy fermion compound CePt2In7, which is a member of the CeIn3-derived heavy fermion material family. Weak hybridization among 4f electron states and conduction bands was identified in CePt2In7 at low temperature much weaker than that in the other heavy fermion compounds like CeIrIn5 and CeRhIn5. The Ce 4f spectrum shows fine structures near the Fermi energy, reflecting the crystal electric field splitting of the 4f5/21 and 4f7/21 states. Also, we find that the Fermi surface has a strongly three-dimensional topology, in agreement with density-functional theory calculations. © 2019 American Physical Society.
22.	Edstrom, Alexander, et al. (author) Quantum mechanical treatment of atomic-resolution differential phase contrast imaging of magnetic materials 2019 In: Physical Review B. - 2469-9950 .- 2469-9969. ; 99:17 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Utilizing the Pauli equation based multislice method, introduced in a previous paper [A. Edstrom, A. Lubk, and J. Rusz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 127203 (2016)], we study the atomic-resolution differential phase contrast (DPC) imaging on an example of a hard magnet FePt with in-plane magnetization. Simulated center-of-mass pattern in a scanning transmission electron microscopy experiment carries information about both electric and magnetic fields. The momentum transfer remains curl free, which has consequences for interpretation of the integrated DPC technique. The extracted magnetic component of the pattern is compared to the expected projected microscopic magnetic field as obtained by density functional theory calculation. Qualitative agreement is obtained for low sample thicknesses and a suitable range of collection angles.
23.	Edström, Alexander, et al. (author) Elastic Scattering of Electron Vortex Beams in Magnetic Matter. 2016 In: Physical Review Letters. - 0031-9007 .- 1079-7114. ; 116:12 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Elastic scattering of electron vortex beams on magnetic materials leads to a weak magnetic contrast due to Zeeman interaction of orbital angular momentum of the beam with magnetic fields in the sample. The magnetic signal manifests itself as a redistribution of intensity in diffraction patterns due to a change of sign of the orbital angular momentum of the electron vortex beam. While in the atomic resolution regime the magnetic signal is most likely under the detection limits of present transmission electron microscopes, for electron probes with high orbital angular momenta, and correspondingly larger spatial extent, its detection is predicted to be feasible.
24.	Edström, Alexander, et al. (author) Electronic structure and magnetic properties of L1(0) binary alloys 2014 In: Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. - 1098-0121 .- 1550-235X. ; 90:1, s. 014402- Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract We present a systematic study of the magnetic properties of L1(0) binary alloys FeNi, CoNi, MnAl, and MnGa via two different density functional theory approaches. Our calculations show large magnetocrystalline anisotropies in the order 1 MJ/m(3) or higher for CoNi, MnAl, and MnGa, while FeNi shows a somewhat lower value in the range 0.48-0.77 MJ/m(3). Saturation magnetization values of 1.3 MA/m, 1.0 MA/m, 0.8 MA/m, and 0.9 MA/m are obtained for FeNi, CoNi, MnAl, and MnGa, respectively. Curie temperatures are evaluated via Monte Carlo simulations and show T-C = 916 K and T-C = 1130 K for FeNi and CoNi, respectively. For Mn-based compounds Mn-rich off-stoichiometric compositions are found to be important for the stability of a ferro- or ferrimagnetic ground state with T-C greater than 600 K. The effect of substitutional disorder is studied and found to decrease both magnetocrystalline anisotropies and Curie temperatures in FeNi and CoNi.
25.	Edström, Alexander, et al. (author) Magnetic Effects in the Paraxial Regime of Elastic Electron Scattering 2016 In: Physical review B: covering condensed matter and materials physics. - 2469-9950. ; 94:17 Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract Motivated by a recent claim [Phys.Rev.Lett. 116, 127203 ( 2016)] that electron vortex beams can be used to image magnetism at the nanoscale in elastic scattering experiments, using transmission electron microscopy, a comprehensive computational study is performed to study magnetic effects in the paraxial regime of elastic electron scattering in magnetic solids. Magnetic interactions from electron vortex beams, spin polarized electron beams, and beams with phase aberrations are considered, as they pass through ferromagnetic FePt or antiferromagnetic LaMnAsO. The magnetic signals are obtained by comparing the intensity over a disk in the diffraction plane for beams with opposite angular momentum or aberrations. The strongest magnetic signals are obtained from vortex beams with large orbital angular momentum, where relative magnetic signals above 10(-3) are indicated for 10 (h) over bar orbital angular momentum, meaning that relative signals of one percent could be expected with the even larger orbital angular momenta, which have been produced in experimental setups. All results indicate that beams with low acceleration voltage and small convergence angles yield stronger magnetic signals, which is unfortunately problematic for the possibility of high spatial resolution imaging. Nevertheless, under atomic resolution conditions, relative magnetic signals in the order of 10(-4) are demonstrated, corresponding to an increase with one order of magnitude compared to previous work.

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