Magnon Circular Birefringence: Polarization Rotation of Spin Waves and Its Applications (IMAGE)

Tohoku University

Magnon Circular Birefringence: Polarization Rotation of Spin Waves and Its Applications

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Fig. 1: Linearly polarized states of observed antiferromagnetic spin waves. The polarization angle changes in space, which indeed is an analogous effect to the 'circular birefringence' of light.

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Taku J Sato

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