@article{3c6e88f9243449ca90364d118996f1a9,
title = "Electronic structure and magnetic properties of the half-metallic ferrimagnet Mn2VAl probed by soft x-ray spectroscopies",
abstract = "We have studied the electronic structure of ferrimagnetic Mn2VAl single crystals by means of soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), x-ray absorption magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), and resonant soft x-ray inelastic scattering (RIXS). We have successfully observed the XMCD signals for all the constituent elements. The Mn L2,3 XAS and XMCD spectra are reproduced by spectral simulations based on density-functional theory, indicating the itinerant character of the Mn 3d states. On the other hand, the V 3d electrons are rather localized since the ionic model can qualitatively explain the V L2,3 XAS and XMCD spectra. This picture is consistent with local dd excitations revealed by the V L3 RIXS.",
author = "K. Nagai and H. Fujiwara and H. Aratani and S. Fujioka and H. Yomosa and Y. Nakatani and T. Kiss and A. Sekiyama and F. Kuroda and H. Fujii and T. Oguchi and A. Tanaka and J. Miyawaki and Y. Harada and Y. Takeda and Y. Saitoh and S. Suga and Umetsu, {R. Y.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank T. Kanomata, S. Imada, A. Yamasaki, K. Yamagami, M. Kawada, A. Koide, and A. Kimura for fruitful discussions. The XMCD measurements were performed under the approval of BL23SU at SPring-8 [Proposal No. 2016A3832 (E28)]. Experiments at SPring-8 BL07LSU were carried out jointly by the Synchrotron Radiation Research Organization and the Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo (Proposal No. 2016B7512). F.K., H.F., and T.O. would like to thank support by Materials research by Information Integration Initiative from -MaDIS, NIMS. This work was financially supported by a Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research (JP16H04014) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. A part of this work was supported by Japan Science and Technology Agency, Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (JST-PRESTO). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 American Physical Society.",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
day = "18",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevB.97.035143",
language = "English",
volume = "97",
journal = "Physical Review B",
issn = "2469-9950",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "3",
}