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Title: Spin-wave electrodynamics of the interface between a magnetoelectric multiferroic and a nonmagnetic insulator

Journal Article · · Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics
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  1. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Galkin Physicotechnical Institute (Ukraine)

The features of refraction (including the Goos-Hanchen effect) of a TM or TE bulk electromagnetic wave incident from outside on the surface of a chiral magnetoelectric with the homogeneous antisymmetric magnetoelectric interaction has been analytically studied on an example of the two-sublattice model of a multiferroic. In particular, it has been shown that the requirement that the diagonal components of the permeability and permittivity tensors are simultaneously negative is not necessary for the implementation of the properties of a left-handed medium. The results have been generalized to the case of an easy-axis antiferromagnet with an antisymmetry center with the 4{sub z}{sup {+-}}2{sub x}{sup +}I{sup -} structure in the static external magnetic field perpendicular to the easy axis of magnetization. Some results of this work were preliminarily reported in D.V. Kulagin, G.G. Levchenko, A.S. Savchenko, A.S. Tarasenko, and S.V. Tarasenko, JETP Lett. 92, 511 (2010).

OSTI ID:
22027899
Journal Information:
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, Vol. 114, Issue 3; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2012 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1063-7761
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English