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Helicity-Changing Brillouin Light Scattering by Magnons in a Ferromagnetic Crystal
- Source :
- Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207401 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Brillouin light scattering in ferromagnetic materials usually involves one magnon and two photons and their total angular momentum is conserved. Here, we experimentally demonstrate the presence of a helicity-changing two-magnon Brillouin light scattering in a ferromagetic crystal, which can be viewed as a four-wave mixing process involving two magnons and two photons. Moreover, we observe an unconventional helicity-changing one-magnon Brillouin light scattering, which apparently infringes the conservation law of the angular momentum. We show that the crystal angular momentum intervenes to compensate the missing angular momentum in the latter scattering process.<br />Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207401 (2019)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1905.04018
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.207401