Giant chiral magnetoelectric oscillations in a van der Waals multiferroic

FY Gao, X Peng, X Cheng, E Viñas Boström, DS Kim… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Helical spin structures are expressions of magnetically induced chirality, entangling the
dipolar and magnetic orders in materials,,–. The recent discovery of helical van der Waals …

Visualization of antiferromagnetic domains by nonreciprocal directional dichroism and related optical responses

K Kimura, T Kimura - APL Materials, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Nonreciprocal directional dichroism (NDD) is a phenomenon in which the optical absorption
is changed by reversing the direction of light propagation or the sign of the magnetic order …

Lead-Free Aurivillius Phase Bi2LaNb1.5Mn0.5O9: Structure, Ferroelectric, Magnetic, and Magnetodielectric Effects

TP Wendari, S Arief, N Mufti, GR Blake, J Baas… - Inorganic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Aurivillius phase Bi2LaNb1. 5Mn0. 5O9, derived from ferroelectric PbBi2Nb2O9 by
simultaneous substitution of the A-site and B-site cations, was synthesized using a molten …

Nonvolatile Switching of Large Nonreciprocal Optical Absorption at Shortwave Infrared Wavelengths

K Kimura, T Kimura - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We report large nonreciprocal optical absorption at shortwave infrared (SWIR) wavelengths
in the magnetoelectric (ME) antiferromagnet (AFM) LiNiPO 4. The difference in absorption …

Observation of antiferromagnetic domains in using nonreciprocal optical effects

T Hayashida, K Arakawa, T Oshima, K Kimura… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
The archetypal magnetoelectric (ME) antiferromagnet Cr 2 O 3, which has the diagonal
components of linear ME tensor, exhibits several different types of nonreciprocal optical …

Visualizing rotation and reversal of the Néel vector through antiferromagnetic trichroism

K Kimura, Y Otake, T Kimura - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Conventional magnetic memories rely on bistable magnetic states, such as the up and down
magnetization states in ferromagnets. Increasing the number of stable magnetic states in …

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 …

Confirming the trilinear form of the optical magnetoelectric effect in the polar honeycomb antiferromagnet Co2Mo3O8

S Reschke, DG Farkas, A Strinić, S Ghara… - npj Quantum …, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetoelectric phenomena are intimately linked to relativistic effects and also require the
material to break spatial inversion symmetry and time-reversal invariance. Magnetoelectric …

Magnetochiral dichroism in a collinear antiferromagnet with no magnetization

T Sato, N Abe, S Kimura, Y Tokunaga, T Arima - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We show the directional dichroism in a collinear antiferromagnet MnTiO 3. The dichroism
between two distinctive antiferromagnetic states with opposite signs of staggered magnetic …

Magnetic and vibronic terahertz excitations in Zn-doped

B Csizi, S Reschke, A Strinić, L Prodan, V Tsurkan… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We report on optical excitations in the magnetically ordered phases of multiferroic Fe 1.86
Zn 0.14 Mo 3 O 8 in the frequency range 10–130 cm− 1 (0.3–3.9 THz). In the collinear easy …