Abstract
An object is considered chiral if its mirror image cannot be brought to coincide with itself by any sequence of simple rotations and translations1. Chirality on a microscopic scaleâin molecules2,3, clusters4, crystals5 and metamaterials6,7âcan be detected by differences in the optical response of a substance to right- and left-handed circularly polarized light2,3. Such âoptical activityâ is generally considered to be a consequence of the specific distribution of electronic charge within chiral materials. Here, we demonstrate that a similar response can also arise as a result of spin excitations in a magnetic material. Besides this spin-mediated optical activity (SOA), we observe notable differences in the response of Ba2CoGe2O7âa square-lattice antiferromagnet that undergoes a magnetic-field driven transition to a chiral formâto terahertz radiation travelling parallel or antiparallel to an applied magnetic field. At certain frequencies the strength of this magneto-chiral effect8,9,10 is almost complete, with the difference between parallel and antiparallel absorption of the material approaching 100%. We attribute these phenomena to the magnetoelectric 11,12 nature of spin excitations as they interact with the electric and magnetic components of light.
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Natural circular dichroism (NCD) and gyrotropy are observed respectively as the change in the ellipticity and the rotation of the polarization of light transmitted through chiral media. Because the sign of these quantities depends on the handedness of the material, NCD is a common probe of chirality over a broad spectrum of the electromagnetic radiation, as reviewed in Fig. 1, when applied to the chiroptical study of proteins. Ultraviolet NCD spectroscopy of peptide-bond excitations is a well-established method for the determination of the secondary structure of proteins3,13. Recent extensions of NCD spectroscopy to the infrared and X-ray regions have shed light on new signatures of chirality of matter expressed by molecular vibrations2,5,14 and core electron excitations15. Extending this context, the handedness of magnetic matter should also be detected in the NCD spectra of spin excitations, typically at gigahertz to terahertz frequencies, although these have seldom been investigated.
Depending on the wavelength, λ, light interacts with various degrees of freedom and detects the handedness of matter at different levels. The soft X-ray natural circular dichroism (SXNCD) picks up chirality via the core-electron excitations, whereas the circular dichroism in the ultraviolet and visible region (UV/VIS CD) probes it through transitions of valence electrons. Molecular vibrations are also sensitive to the handedness, which is manifested in the vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) or the Raman optical activity (ROA). We predict that besides the charge excitations above, spin-wave excitations in the gigahertzâterahertz region (λâ¼100âμmâ10âmm) of the electromagnetic spectrum can also probe the chirality of magnetic materials and show SOA.
When chirality is accompanied by magnetism, an intriguing optical cross effect, the magneto-chiral dichroism8,9 (MChD), emerges besides the conventional magnetically induced circular dichroism (MCD). MChD is a directional dichroism and is measured as the absorption difference for unpolarized (or linearly polarized) light propagating parallel and antiparallel to the magnetization of the media. MChD is generally recognized as a weak effect and has been found for visible light in metallic complexes10, molecular magnets16, inorganic crystals17 and cholesteric liquid crystals18. However, a recent study of the chiral phase of CuB2O4 proved that MChD can reach the order of unity (â¼100%) in crystal field transitions of d shell electrons19. An optical second harmonic generation study of the multiferroic LiCoPO4 also indicated that the electric dipole excitations of the d shell electrons can probe chirality20.
Spin-waves (magnons) in conventional magnets are excited by the magnetic component of light and they naturally show the MCD effect, whereas NCD and MChD effects are forbidden. A prerequisite to observe such phenomena in the long-wavelength region is the existence of dynamical coupling between spins and microscopic electric dipoles in the material2. In multiferroic materials, where magnetization (M) and ferroelectric polarization (P) are interlocked, such cross-coupling is possible and was indeed observed as electrically excited magnetic resonance in several compounds, including RMnO3 (refs 21, 22), RMn2O5 (ref. 23), BiFeO3 (ref. 24), and most recently in Ba2CoGe2O7 (ref. 25). However, the question of chirality has not been addressed so far in these systems. We predict that a magnetically induced chiral state with switchable handedness can emerge in magnets with non-centrosymmetric but non-chiral crystal structure, as we demonstrate for Ba2CoGe2O7. Cross-resonances between electric and magnetic dipole active transitions existing at spin excitations in Ba2CoGe2O7 provide us with an excellent opportunity to observe gigantic NCD and MChD effects.
Ba2CoGe2O7 has a tetragonal crystal structure where Co2+ cations with Sâ=â3/2 spin form square-lattice layers stacked along the tetragonal [001] axis (see Fig. 2a). Néel-type antiferromagnetic order develops below TNâ=â6.7âK, with spins lying in the plane of the layers (tetragonal plane)26. Moderate magnetic fields, Bdcâ³1âT, applied in this plane effectively induce a ferromagnetic moment by canting the spins, while the antiferromagnetic component of the magnetization aligns perpendicular to the field, as shown in Fig. 2b. When the ferromagnetic moment points along the [110] axis, a ferroelectric polarization appears parallel to the [001] axis27. Rotation of the magnetic field within the tetragonal plane rotates M, accompanied by the sinusoidal modulation of P (ref. 27). Whereas ferroelectricity vanishes in magnetic fields applied along the [100] or [010] axis, the corresponding spin patterns break all mirror-plane symmetries of the lattice, as visualized in Fig. 2b,c, and the material becomes chiral19,28. We emphasize that although neither the spin nor the lattice structure alone is chiral, the whole spinâlattice system forms a chiral object: the Ï/2 rotation of the magnetic field from [100] to [010] direction switches between the left- and right-handed forms of the magnetic crystal, corresponding to the chiral space groups P2121â²2â² and P21â²212â², respectively28 (see Fig. 2b,c). Such soft switching of handedness is hardly conceivable in molecules and crystals with purely structural chirality.
a, The crystal structure of Ba2CoGe2O7âbelongs to the tetragonal space group . The corresponding
point group can be represented by a single tetrahedron compressed in the [001] direction. Its two longer edges are indicated with blue lines. b, When the external magnetic field points along the [100] or [010] axis, the antiferromagnetic spin pattern with field-induced canting (blue arrows) breaks all mirror-plane symmetries of the lattice, hence, it makes the crystal chiral with the point symmetry of 22â²2â² or 2â²22â², respectively. Switching between the left-handed (L) and right-handed (R) enantiomers can be carried out by rotation of the magnetic field from the [100] to the [010] direction, being equivalent to the m(110) mirror reflection (dashed line). c, The magnetically induced chirality of the material and the corresponding point symmetries can be schematized by the compressed tetrahedron together with a magnetic moment connecting midpoints of two opposite shorter edges (representing the lattice symmetry and the spin system, respectively). In the mirror image obtained by m(110) reflection, the tetrahedron remains unchanged, while the magnetic moment (axial vector) is rotated by Ï/2. Image and mirror image are enantiomeric pairs as they cannot be brought into coincidence with each other by pure rotations and translations even when combined with time-reversal operation.
The nature of the spin excitations in the magnetically induced chiral state of Ba2CoGe2O7 was studied by polarization-sensitive optical spectroscopy over the gigahertzâterahertz regime (see Methods). We found two spin resonances located at frequencies fâ0.5âTHz and fâ1âTHz in zero field. With increasing magnetic field a third mode appears from low frequencies, which corresponds to the gapless Goldstone mode in the zero-field limit26. These modes exhibit strong polarization rotation and ellipticity for each propagation direction and polarization configuration whenever the static magnetic field, Bdc, points along [100] or [010] direction. (The full polarization study is presented in the Supplementary Information.) When the light propagates along the [001] axis perpendicular to the static magnetic field and , as in a typical case shown in Fig. 3a, all three resonances are excited. In Bdcâ=â7âT, the âGoldstone modeâ is located at fâ0.27âTHz and the other two modes are split into several bands. The band around 1âTHz induces a strong polarization change characterized by θâ90°âmmâ1, ηâ35°âmmâ1 close to the resonance frequency, whereas the effect is a factor of three smaller for the lower-frequency magnon modes.
a, The modes observed at 0.5âTHz and 1âTHz in zero field show clear splittings in high magnetic fields parallel to the [010] axis, as indicated by arrows. The âGoldstone modeâ (G) is centred around 0.27âTHz. The large polarization rotation and ellipticity are even functions of the magnetic field. b, When the external magnetic field direction is rotated from the [100] to the [010] axis, both θ and η change sign, whereas they are zero within the experimental accuracy when the magnetic field points along the [110] direction and the m(110) mirror-plane symmetry is restored. Thus, these polarization phenomena can be identified as SOA in a chiral media.
These polarization phenomena are even functions of the magnetic field, thereby excluding any contributions from conventional MCD. Furthermore, the sign of the polarization rotation and ellipticity spectra are reversed by the simultaneous rotation of Bdc and EÏ from [100] to [010], as shown in Fig. 3b. In the case of magnetically induced linear birefringence/dichroism, the optical axes would be linked to the direction of Bdc as the (001) plane is originally isotropic in the paramagnetic state. As EÏ is kept parallel with Bdc, the sign change observed in θ and η is not compatible with linear birefringence and dichroism, although the magnitude of the rotation and ellipticity spectra can be influenced by these linear polarization effects (see Supplementary Information). Instead, this sign reversal is specific to optical activity and provides a direct proof of the true chirality and the field-induced switching of the handedness of matter. In fields applied along the intermediate [110] direction, by contrast, no NCD and gyrotropy appear, indicating the lack of chirality as the m(110) mirror-plane symmetry is restored.
The existence of MChD was investigated in the chiral state by keeping Bdc along the [010] or [100] axis, while choosing the light propagation to be parallel or antiparallel to Bdc (see Fig. 4). In this configuration, called the Faraday geometry, the magnetic resonance at â¼ 0.5âTHz is silent. The mode at 1âTHz is split in larger fields and the âGoldstone modeâ enters from lower frequencies above 4âT. The magnetically induced handedness is also manifested in strong NCD and gyrotropy (see Supplementary Information).
Absorption is studied when light propagates along the [010] axis parallel (+Bdc) and antiparallel (âBdc) to the external magnetic field. a,b, Absorption spectra for light polarizations EÏâ¥[100] (a) and EÏâ¥[001] (b), measured as a function of the magnetic field, are shifted in proportion to the corresponding Bdc values. Red and blue curves indicate the case of +Bdc and âBdc, respectively. Between the spin resonances the material is transparent, as αâ0. The magneto-chiral dichroism, corresponding to the difference of the absorption coefficients for counter-propagating beams, is huge both for the âGoldstone modeâ (highlighted green) and the low-frequency branch of the resonance at â¼ 1âTHz (highlighted orange). Îα/αmaxâ³70% in the highlighted regions. c,d, The sign and magnitude of the experimentally observed MChD effect (coloured curves) are reproduced by our theoretical model (black curves) for two polarizations EÏâ¥[100] and EÏâ¥[100] as in c and d, respectively.
The difference in absorption, Îαâ=âα+âαâ, for light propagating parallel and antiparallel to the external field is large for all optically active spin resonances (Fig. 4c,d). Note that the âGoldstone modeâ exhibits MChD as large as Îα/αmaxâ³70% for both polarizations in high fields, where αmaxâ=âmax{α+,αâ}. For the light polarization EÏâ¥[001] shown in Fig. 4, the absorption nearly vanishes at the low-frequency branch of the 1âTHz resonance for the beam propagating antiparallel to the direction of Bdc. It means that the material becomes transparent at these frequencies when viewed from the direction of the magnetization, whereas the absorption remains fairly large for light travelling in the opposite direction, that is, Îα/αmax is close to 100%. As is clear from Fig. 3c,d, the effect is still appreciable in low magnetic fields.
NCD and MChD, emerging in Ba2CoGe2O7 with large magnitude in the gigahertzâterahertz range, are observed for the first time for spin excitations. In the conventional view spins respond to the magnetic field of light, which induces their precession described by the dynamical magnetic permeability . In this multiferroic material, where spins are coupled to microscopic electric dipoles, a new channel opens to excite the spins via the electric field of light29, the so-called electromagnon process. Consequently, the dynamics of the spins also induces oscillating electric polarization in the material, expressed by the dielectric permittivity
.
Because these spin resonances can simultaneously be excited by the magnetic and electric components of light with similar strength, the dynamical magnetoelectric tensor also affects the optical response. It describes the oscillations of the magnetization in the material induced by the electric field of light,
, in analogy with the d.c. magnetoelectric effect (É0 and μ0 are the dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability of vacuum). In Ba2CoGe2O7, the symmetry of the magnetically ordered phase and the corresponding form of
can be controlled by the magnetic field. Specifically, fields Bdcâ³1âT applied parallel to the [100] or [010] crystallographic axis yield
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where Bdc and the [001] tetragonal axis are set parallel to the y- and the z-axis, respectively. The sign change of on Ï/2 rotation of the crystal around the z-axis is related to the switching between the two enantiomers. The diagonal components (invariant under time-reversal) are responsible for NCD, whereas the off-diagonal elements (changing sign on time-reversal) generate MChD. The existence of magnetically induced chirality and NCD in Ba2CoGe2O7 can alternatively be predicted by the symmetry analysis of the magneto-gyration tensor Fα β γ δ in its paramagnetic space group
. This response function is related to the magnetoelectric tensor according to Fα β γ δâ=â(â2gα β)/(â Bγâ Bδ)|Bâ=â0â=â1/c(â2(Ïβ αmeâÏγ γme·δα β))/(â Bγâ Bδ)|Bâ=â0, where gα β is the gyration tensor, B is the magnetic field and c is the speed of light2. Here the Greek symbols stand for cartesian indices x,y and z while δ denotes Kronecker delta. In accordance with the observed sign change of NCD on rotation of Bdc from the [100] to the [010] direction, Neumannâs principle gives that Fz z x x and Fz z y y components are finite (Fz z x xâ=ââFz z y y), while the lack of NCD for Bdcâ¥[110] corresponds to Fz z x yâ=â0.
We have successfully described the magnetically induced chirality in the ground state of Ba2CoGe2O7 and its spin excitation spectrum based on a microscopic spin model. Next, we solved the Maxwell equations using ,
and
obtained from this theory. (For details see the Supplementary Information.) The calculated absorption and gyrotropy/NCD spectraâas approximated by
and θ+i ηâ=â(i Ï/2c){Ïγ γme+Ïδ δme}, respectivelyâreproduce the experimental results as shown in Fig. 3. Furthermore, the measured MChD spectra shown in Fig. 4c,d show an overall agreement with the theoretical curves Îαâ=âα+âαââ=â(4Ï)/(c)Im{Ïγ δme}.
The observed strong NCD and gyrotropyâwhat we call SOAâtogether with the giant MChD are the direct manifestations of the dynamical magnetoelectric effect. Because simple spin orders, such as ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic, can effectively generate magnetoelectric coupling in crystals without inversion symmetry, we expect that a broad variety of magnetic materials offer these novel optical functionalities for the polarization and directional control of light.
Methods
Samples.
Single crystals of Ba2CoGe2O7 were grown by a floating zone method. Crystals were characterized by ferroelectric polarization and magnetization measurements. The precisely oriented samples used in the terahertz study had slab-like shapes with a typical thickness of 1âmm and cross-section of 10âmm2.
Circular dichroism spectroscopy.
We adopted terahertz time-domain spectroscopy30,31 to obtain the complex transmission spectrum in the frequency range 0.2â2âTHz with a resolution of 0.05âTHz. The femtosecond laser pulses delivered from a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser (centre wavelength of 800ânm, pulse width of 100âfs, repetition rate of 80âMHz) were irradiated to a biased photo-switching device made of low-temperature-grown GaAs (LT-GaAs) coupled with a dipole antenna, or to the surface of a p-type InAs crystal. The terahertz pulses radiated by such emitters were collimated by a pair of off-axis paraboloidal mirrors and were focused on the sample. After passing through the sample the beam was collimated again and focused on the detector by a second pair of off-axis paraboloidal mirrors. For the detection, another LT-GaAs photo-switching device coupled with a dipole antenna or an electro-optic sampling method with a (110) ZnTe crystal was used. The light polarization was carefully set parallel to each crystallographic axis using a wire-grid polarizer. The polarization state of the beam transmitted through the sample was analysed by another wire-grid polarizer. To obtain the absolute transmission of the material, the sample was replaced by a hole with the same diameter, through which the direct beam was measured. Static magnetic fields up to ±7âT were applied by a superconducting split-coil magnet.
From the time-domain transmission experiments, performed in several polarization configurations, we determined each element of the complex transmission matrix. Besides the absorption coefficient,
, changes in the polarization state of linearly polarized light due to NCD and gyrotropy were determined according to
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where d is the sample thickness, and
are the complex transmission coefficients for the sample placed between parallel and crossed polarizers, while θ and η are the polarization rotation and ellipticity, respectively (for more details see Supplementary Information).
Magnetochiral dichroism experiment.
For the study of the MChD effect, we used Fourier transform absorption spectroscopy. The measurement system, which is based on a MartinâPuplett interferometer, a mercury arc lamp as a light source, and a Si bolometer cooled down to 300âmK as a light intensity detector, covered the spectral range 0.13â6âTHz with a maximum resolution of 0.004âTHz. A single wire-grid polarizer was inserted to set the polarization state of the beam before the sample. However, the detection side, that is, the light path after the sample including the detector, was insensitive to the polarization of light. Static magnetic fields up to ±12âT were applied by a superconducting solenoid magnet.
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We thank T. Arima and K. Penc for discussions. This work was supported by KAKENHI, MEXT of Japan, by Funding Program for World-Leading Innovation R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST program) on âQuantum Science on Strong Correlationâ, by Hungarian Research Funds OTKA PD75615, Bolyai 00256/08/11, TAâMOP-4.2.2.B-10/1â2010-0009 and by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research under Grant SF0690029s09, and Estonian Science Foundation under Grants ETF8170 and ETF8703.
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S.B., I.K., T.R., U.N., D.S. and L.D. performed the measurements and analysed the data; H.M. and Y.O. contributed to the sample preparation; N.K., R.S., T.R. and U.N. developed the experimental set-up; S.M. and N.F. developed the theory; S.B. and I.K. wrote the manuscript; and Y.T. and I.K. planned the project.
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Bordács, S., Kézsmárki, I., Szaller, D. et al. Chirality of matter shows up via spin excitations. Nature Phys 8, 734â738 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2387
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