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A semiquantitative model of circular magneto-optical effects in iron garnets is constructed within the concept of charge-transfer transitions and the existing qualitative notions. In the framework of the proposed model, the drastic enhancement of circular magneto-optical effects in R 3Fe5O12 iron garnets containing impurities of Bi3+ or Pb2+ ions is explained by the increase in the oxygen contribution to the spin-orbit coupling constant of the (FeO6)9− and (FeO4)5− complexes (the main magneto-optically active centers in iron garnets). This increase is associated with the covalent admixture of the Bi3+ (or Pb2+) 6p orbitals (with a giant one-electron spin-orbit coupling constant) to the oxygen 2p orbitals. The influence of the substitution does not reduce to an enhancement of the oxygen spin-orbit interaction alone but also leads to the appearance of the effective anisotropic tensor contributions to the spin-orbit interaction and circular magneto-optical effects. These contributions to the magneto-optical effects in garnets are estimated. The influence of an inhomogeneous bismuth distribution on the magneto-optical effects in Y3−x BixFe5O12 garnets is investigated using computer simulation. Analysis of the available experimental data on the magneto-optical effects in garnets confirms the validity of the theoretical model proposed.
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Translated from Fizika Tverdogo Tela, Vol. 44, No. 10, 2002, pp. 1811–1818.
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Moskvin, A.S., Zenkov, A.V. Bismuth-induced enhancement of magneto-optical effects in iron garnets: A theoretical analysis. Phys. Solid State 44, 1898–1906 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1514779
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