Detection of the Faraday Chiral Anisotropy

Caridad JM, Tserkezis C, Santos JE, Plochocka P, Venkatesan M, Coey JM, Mortensen NA, Rikken GL, Krstic V (2021)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2021

Journal

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society

Book Volume: 126

Article Number: 177401

Journal Issue: 17

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.177401

Abstract

The connection between chirality and electromagnetism has attracted much attention through the recent history of science, allowing the discovery of crucial nonreciprocal optical phenomena within the context of fundamental interactions between matter and light. A major phenomenon within this family is the so-called Faraday chiral anisotropy, the long-predicted but yet unobserved effect which arises due to the correlated coaction of both natural and magnetically induced optical activities at concurring wavelengths in chiral systems. Here, we report on the detection of the elusive anisotropic Faraday chiral phenomenon and demonstrate its enantioselectivity. The existence of this fundamental effect reveals the accomplishment of envisioned nonreciprocal electromagnetic metamaterials referred to as Faraday chiral media, systems where novel electromagnetic phenomena such as negative refraction of light at tunable wavelengths or even negative reflection can be realized. From a more comprehensive perspective, our findings have profound implications for the general understanding of parity-violating photon-particle interactions in magnetized media.

Authors with CRIS profile

Vojislav Krstic Professur für Angewandte Physik

Additional Organisation(s)

Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 306/1: Quantenkooperativität von Licht und Materie - QuCoLiMa

Related research project(s)

Quantum cooperative helical metafilms for producing nonclassical light (C05) TRR 306: Quantenkooperativität von Licht und Materie – QuCoLiMa Jan. 1, 2021 - Dec. 31, 2024

Involved external institutions

Trinity College Dublin IE Ireland (IE) University of Southern Denmark / Syddansk Universitet DK Denmark (DK) Universidade do Minho PT Portugal (PT) National Center for Scientific Research / Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) FR France (FR) Technical University of Denmark / Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU) DK Denmark (DK)

How to cite

APA:

Caridad, J.M., Tserkezis, C., Santos, J.E., Plochocka, P., Venkatesan, M., Coey, J.M.,... Krstic, V. (2021). Detection of the Faraday Chiral Anisotropy. Physical Review Letters, 126(17). https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.177401

MLA:

Caridad, José M., et al. "Detection of the Faraday Chiral Anisotropy." Physical Review Letters 126.17 (2021).

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