Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8038391 Ultramicroscopy 2014 5 Pages PDF
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 ∼1nm. This is confirmed by a key experiment with nanometer-sized vortices.
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