Abstract
We suggest that in an anisotropic crystal there should be a mechanism of dichroism related to a scissors mode, a kind of excitation observed in several other many-body systems. Such an effect should be found in crystals, amorphous systems, and also metalloproteins. Its signature is a strong magnetic dipole transition amplitude, which is a function of the angle between the momentum of the photon and the anisotropy axis of the cell.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 092402 |
| Journal | Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue number | 9 |
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| State | Published - 2005/03/01 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics