Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 047401 (2001) [4 pages]Observation of the X-Ray Magneto-Optical Voigt EffectReceived 5 April 2001; published 9 July 2001 The existence of the x-ray magneto-optical Voigt effect is demonstrated. By means of polarization analysis the Voigt rotation and ellipticity of linearly polarized synchrotron radiation are measured at the Co L3 edge upon transmission through an amorphous Co film. The observed x-ray Voigt rotation is about 7.5°/μm. On the basis of ab initio calculations it is shown that the x-ray Voigt effect follows sensitively the amount of spin polarization of the 2p core states. Therefore it provides a unique measure of the spin splitting of the core states. © 2001 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.047401
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.047401
PACS:
78.70.Dm, 78.20.Ls
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