Magnetochiral dichroism resonant with electromagnons in a helimagnet

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kibayashi, S ^a   Takahashi, Y ^a,b   Seki, S ^b,c   Tokura, Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIZATION; OPTICAL METHOD; RESONANCE;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; HELIMAGNET; MAGNET; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOCHIRAL DICHROISM RESONANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHASE TRANSITION; REFRACTION INDEX; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84905460008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5583     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Eerenstein, W., Mathur, N. D. & Scott, J. F. Multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials. Nature 442, 759-765 (2006 (Pubitemid 44261898)
2. Scott, J. F. Applications of modern ferroelectrics. Science 315, 954-959 (2007
3. Nan, Ce-Wen., Bichurin, M. I., Dong, Shuxiang., Viehland, D. & Srinivasan, G. Multiferroic magnetoelectric composites: Historical perspective, status, and future directions. J. Appl. Phys. 103, 031101 (2008
4. Kimura, T. et al. Magnetic control of ferroelectric polarization. Nature 426, 55-58 (2003 (Pubitemid 37441280)
5. Cheong, S-W. & Mostovoy, M. Multiferroics: A magnetic twist for ferroelectricity. Nat. Mater. 6, 13-20 (2007 (Pubitemid 46043268)
6. Tokura, Y. & Seki, S. Multiferroics with spiral spin orders. Adv. Mater. 22, 1554-1565 (2010
7. Katsura, H., Nagaosa, N. & Balatsky, A. V. Spin current and magnetoelectric effect in noncollinear magnets. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 057205 (2005
8. Sergienko, L. A. & Dagotto, E. Role of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in multiferroic perovskites. Phys. Rev. B 73, 094434 (2006
9. Mostovoy, M. Ferroelectricity in spiral magnets. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 067601 (2006
10. Pimenov, A. et al. Possible evidence for electromagnons in multiferroic manganites. Nat. Phys. 2, 97-100 (2006 (Pubitemid 43731378)
11. Katsura, H., Balatsky, A. V. & Nagaosa, N. Dynamical magnetoelectric coupling in helical magnets. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 027203 (2007
12. Kida, N. et al. Electric-dipole-active magnetic resonance in the conical-spin magnet Ba2Mg2Fe12O22. Phys. Rev. B 80, 220406(R) (2009
13. Seki, S. et al. Electromagnons in the spin collinear state of a triangular lattice antiferromagnet. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 097207 (2010
14. Takahashi, Y. et al. Magnetoelectric resonance with electromagnons in a perovskite helimagnet. Nat. Phys. 8, 121-125 (2011
15. Takahashi, Y., Yamasaki, Y. & Tokura, Y. Terahertz magnetoelectric resonance enhanced by mutual coupling of electromagnons. Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 037204 (2013
16. Kézsmárki, I. et al. Enhanced directional dichroism of terahertz light in resonance with magnetic excitations of the multiferroic Ba2CoGe2O7 oxide compound. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 057403 (2011
17. Bordacs, S. et al. Chirality of matter shows up via spin excitations. Nat. Phys. 8, 734-738 (2012
18. Kézsmárki, I. et al. One-way transparency of four-coloured spin-wave excitations in multiferroic materials. Nat. Commun. 5, 3203 (2013
19. Barron, L. D. Molecular Light Scattering and Optical Activity (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004
20. Arima, T. Magneto-electric optics in non-centrosymmetric ferromagnets. J. Phys. Condens. Matter 20, 434211 (2008
21. Miyahara, S. & Furukawa, N. Nonreciprocal directional dichroism and toroidalmagnons in helical magnets. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn 81, 023712 (2012
22. Rikken, G. L. J. A. & Raupach, E. Observation of magneto-chiral dichroism. Nature 390, 493-494 (1997 (Pubitemid 28013124)
23. Rikken, G. L. J. A. & Raupach, E. Enantioselective magnetochiral photochemistry. Nature 405, 932-935 (2000 (Pubitemid 30435045)
24. Mitsuda, S. et al. Field-induced magnetic phase transitions in a triangular lattice antiferromagnet CuFeO2 up to 14.5T. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn 69, 3513 (2000
25. Kimura, T., Lashley, J. C. & Ramirez, A. P. Inversion-symmetry breaking in the noncollinear magnetic phase of the triangular-lattice antiferromagnet CuFeO2. Phys. Rev. B 73, 220401 (2006
26. Nakajima, T. et al. Spin noncollinearlity in multiferroic phase of triangular lattice antiferromagnet CuFe1-xAlxO2. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn 76, 043709 (2007
27. Nakajima, T. et al. Electric polarization induced by a proper helical magnetic ordering in a delafossite multiferroic CuFe1-xAlxO2. Phys. Rev. B 77, 052401 (2008
28. Terada, N. et al. Ga-substitution-induced single ferroelectric phase in multiferroic CuFeO2. Phys. Rev. B 78, 014101 (2008
29. Seki, S., Murakawa, H., Onose, Y. & Tokura, Y. Magnetic digital flop of ferroelectric domain with fixed spin chirality in a triangular lattice helimagnet. Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 237601 (2009
30. Arima, T. Ferroelectricity induced by proper-screw type magnetic order. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 76, 073702 (2007
31. Jia, C. et al. Microscopic theory of spin-polarization coupling in multiferroic transition metal oxides. Phys. Rev. B 76, 144424 (2007
32. Hornreich, R. M. & Shtrikman, S. Theory of gyrotropic birefringence. Phys. Rev. 171, 1065-1074 (1968
33. Miyahara, S. & Furukawa, N. Theory of magneto-optical effects in helical multiferroic materials via toroidal magnon excitation. Phys. Rev. B 89, 195145 (2014
34. Rikken, G. L. J. A. & Raupach, E. Pure and cascaded magnetochiral anisotropy in optical absorption. Phys. Rev. E 58, 5081-5084 (1998 (Pubitemid 128596445)
35. Rogalev, A., Goulon, J., Wilhelm, F. & Bosak, A. in: Magnetism and Synchrotron Radiation. Springer Proceedings in Physics Vol. 133, 169-190 (Springer, 2010
36. Lovesey, S. W. & Balcar, E. Quantumtheory of natural circular, magneto-chiral and non-reciprocal linear dichroism. Phys. Scr. 81, 065703 (2010
37. Train, C. et al. Strong magneto-chiral dichroism in enantiopure chiral ferromagnets. Nat. Mater. 7, 729-734 (2008
38. Rikken, G. L. J. A. & Raupach, E. Pure and cascaded magnetochiral anisotropy in optical absorption. Phys. Rev. E 58, 5081-5084 (1998 (Pubitemid 128596445)
39. Saito, M. et al. Magnetic control of crystal chirality and the existence of a large magneto-optical dichroism effect in CuB2O4. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 117402 (2008
40. Terada, N. et al. Restoring higher symmetric crystal structure with magnetic field in triangular lattice antiferromagnet CuFeO2. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn 75, 113702 (2006
41. Tanaka, Y. et al. Incommensurate orbital modulation behind ferroelectricity in CuFeO2. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 127205 (2012
42. Spaldin, N. A., Fiebig, M. & Mostovoy, M. The toroidal moment in condensedmatter physics and its relation to the magnetoelectric effect. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn 76, 073702 (2007
43. Scagnoli, V. et al. Observation of orbital currents in CuO. Science 332, 696 (2011
44. Ferguson, B. & Zhang, X.-C. Materials for terahertz science and technology. Nat. Mater. 1, 26-33 (2002).