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Terahertz vortex beam as a spectroscopic probe of magnetic excitations

Sirenko, Andrei A. ; Maršík, Premysl ; Bernhard, Christian ; Stanislavchuk, T. N. ; Kiryukhin, V. ; Cheong, S.-W.

In: Physical Review Letters, 2019, vol. 122, no. 23, p. 237401

Circularly polarized light with spin angular momentum is one of the most valuable probes of magnetism. We demonstrate that light beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM), or vortex beams, can also couple to magnetism exhibiting dichroisms in a magnetized medium. Resonant optical absorption in a ferrimagnetic crystal depends strongly on both the handedness of the vortex and the direction of...