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Fig. 6

From: Correlation of the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction with Heisenberg exchange and orbital asphericity

Fig. 6

Schematic illustration of the spin canting. Explicit illustration of the onset of the orbital angular momentum and how SOC induces spin canting from it. The red and grey spheres represent the top ferromagnetic and bottom normal metal atoms in each layer, while the yellow and blue spheres represent the d xy (top) and d yz (bottom) orbitals, respectively. Dotted red lines and black curved arrow indicate the electron hopping path and effective electron orbiting motion due to the hopping, respectively

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