• Title of article

    Is magnetic chiral dichroism feasible with electron vortices?

  • Author/Authors

    Schattschneider، نويسنده , , P. and Lِffler، نويسنده , , S. and Stِger-Pollach، نويسنده , , M. and Verbeeck، نويسنده , , J.، نويسنده ,

  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    81
  • To page
    85
  • Abstract
    We discuss the feasibility of detecting magnetic transitions with focused electron vortex probes, suggested by selection rules for the magnetic quantum number. We theoretically estimate the dichroic signal strength in the L2,3 edge of ferromagnetic d metals. It is shown that under realistic conditions, the dichroic signal is undetectable for nanoparticles larger than ∼ 1 nm . This is confirmed by a key experiment with nanometer-sized vortices.
  • Keywords
    Orbital angular momentum , EMCD , Electron vortices , Inelastic scattering
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Record number

    2044313