Magnetic resonant X-ray scattering at the Ga edge in UGa; A Band theoretical approach

Usuda, Manabu; Igarashi, Junichi*; Kodama, Akio*

Physical Review B, 69(22), p.224402_1 - 224402_5, 2004/06

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.69.224402

Magnetic resonant X-ray scattering (MRXS) at the edge of Ga in an antiferromagnetic phase of UGa is studied on the basis of a band-structure calculation. We find that a relatively large orbital polarization in the unoccupied states of the Ga band is induced by the orbital polarizations at neighboring U atoms through the Ga and U hybridization, and thereby leading to the large MRXS intensity.