Cf. Hague et al., OBSERVATION OF MAGNETIC CIRCULAR-DICHROISM IN FE L2,3 X-RAY-FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, 48(5), 1993, pp. 3560-3562
We report experiments demonstrating circular dichroism in the x-ray-fl
uorescence spectra of magnetic systems, as predicted by a recent theor
y. The data, on the L2,3 edges of ferromagnetic iron, are compared wit
h fully relativistic local spin density functional calculations, and t
he relationship between the dichroic spectra and the spin-resolved loc
al density of occupied states is discussed.