Magnetocrystalline anisotropy and orbital polarization in ferromagnetic transition metals
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The magnetocrystalline anisotropy energies (MAEs) of the ferromagnetic metals bcc Fe, fcc and hcp Co, and fcc Ni have been calculated by using the ab initio tight-binding method. Disentangling the strong correlation among the d orbitals with the Hamiltonian in the local spin-density approximation, we have investigated the orbital polarizations induced by the Hubbard U and Racah B. The experimental MAE of fcc Ni is found with the value of U close to that determined from experiments and used in other theories. With the optimized values of U and J , both the MAEs and the orbital moments for Fe and Co are in close agreement with experiment.
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