Université de Fribourg

Total Angular Momentum Dichroism of the Terahertz Vortex Beams at the Antiferromagnetic Resonances

Sirenko, Andrei A. ; Marsik, Premysl ; Bugnon, Laurent ; Soulier, Mathias ; Bernhard, Christian ; Stanislavchuk, T. N. ; Xu, Xianghan ; Cheong, S.-W.

In: Physical Review Letters, 2021, vol. 126, no. 15, p. 157401

Terahertz vortex beams with different superposition of the orbital angular momentum $l={\pm}1$, ${\pm}2$, ${\pm}3$, and ${\pm}4$ and spin angular momentum ${\sigma}={\pm}1$ were used to study antiferromagnetic (AFM) resonances in TbFe$_3$(BO$_3$)$_4$ and Ni$_3$TeO$_6$ single crystals. In both materials we observed a strong vortex beam dichroism for the AFM resonances that are split in ...