Spin-orbit excitations and electronic structure of the putative Kitaev magnet

LJ Sandilands, Y Tian, AA Reijnders, HS Kim… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Mott insulators with strong spin-orbit coupling have been proposed to host unconventional
magnetic states, including the Kitaev quantum spin liquid. The 4 d system α-RuCl 3 has …

One-Way Transparency of Light in Multiferroic

S Toyoda, N Abe, S Kimura, YH Matsuda, T Nomura… - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
We experimentally demonstrate one-way transparency of light in multiferroic CuB 2 O 4. The
material is rendered transparent for light propagating in one direction, while opaque for light …

Imaging switchable magnetoelectric quadrupole domains via nonreciprocal linear dichroism

K Kimura, T Katsuyoshi, Y Sawada, S Kimura… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Parity-odd magnetoelectric multipoles such as magnetic quadrupoles and toroidal dipoles
contribute to various symmetry-dependent magnetic phenomena and formation of exotic …

Mixed (NH4) 2Mn0. 47Cu0. 53 (SO4) 2 (H2O) 6 Tutton salt: A novel optical material for solar-blind technology

JG de Oliveira Neto, JV Marques, JG da Silva Filho… - Optical Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, a novel mixed Tutton salt (NH 4) 2 Mn 0. 47 Cu 0. 53 (SO 4) 2 (H 2 O) 6
obtained in single crystal form is described. Their structural, thermal, electrical, and …

Evaluation of EPR parameters for compressed and elongated local structures of VO2+ and Cu2+ spin probes in BaO-TeO2-B2O3 glasses

B Srinivas, A Hameed, G Ramadevudu… - Journal of Physics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
EPR parameters and the local configurations of the transition metal (TM) ions VO 2+ and Cu
2+ in BaO-TeO 2-B 2 O 3 glasses were experimentally evaluated and also theoretically …

Femtosecond activation of magnetoelectricity

D Bossini, K Konishi, S Toyoda, T Arima, J Yumoto… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
In magnetoelectric and multiferroic materials, the magnetic degree of freedom can be
controlled by electric field, and vice versa. A significant amount of research has been …

Origin of the exotic blue color of copper-containing historical pigments

P García-Fernández, M Moreno… - Inorganic Chemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
The study of chemical factors that influence pigment coloring is a field of fundamental
interest that is still dominated by many uncertainties. In this Article, we investigate, by means …

Nonreciprocal second harmonic generation in a magnetoelectric material

S Toyoda, M Fiebig, T Arima, Y Tokura, N Ogawa - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Mirror symmetries are of particular importance because they are connected to fundamental
properties and conservation laws. Spatial inversion and time reversal are typically …

Toroidal nonreciprocity of optical second harmonic generation

J Mund, DR Yakovlev, AN Poddubny, RM Dubrovin… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We demonstrate mechanisms of reciprocity breaking in nonlinear optics driven by the
toroidal dipole moment which characterizes nontrivial spatial distributions of spins in solids …

Antiferromagnetic Dichroism in a Complex Multisublattice Magnetoelectric

KN Boldyrev, RV Pisarev, LN Bezmaternykh… - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
Magnetic control of the crystal chirality was announced by Saito et al.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 101,
117402 (2008)] on the ground of experiments in Cu B 2 O 4. This claim has raised a sharp …