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Negative refraction in natural ferromagnetic metals
It is generally believed that Veselago's criterion for negative refraction
cannot be fulfilled in natural materials. However, considering imaginary parts
of the permittivity ({\epsilon}) and permeability ({\mu}) and for metals at not
too high frequencies the general condition for negative refraction becomes
extremely simple: Re({\mu}) Re(n) < 0. Here we demonstrate
experimentally that in such natural metals as pure Co and FeCo alloy the
negative values of the refractive index are achieved close to the frequency of
the ferromagnetic resonance. Large values of the negative refraction can be
obtained at room temperature and they can easily be tuned in moderate magnetic
fields
Evidence of electro-active excitation of the spin cycloid in TbMnO3
Terahertz electromagnetic excitations in the multiferroic TbMnO3 at the
field-induced magnetic transition are investigated for different orientations
of the magnetic cycloid. In addition to the electromagnon along the a-axis, the
detailed polarization analysis of the experimental spectra suggests the
existence of an electro-active excitation for ac electric fields along the
crystallographic c-axis. This excitation is possibly the electro-active
eigenmode of the spin cycloid in TbMnO3, which has been predicted within the
inverse Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya mechanism of magnetoelectric coupling.Comment: 5 page
Microwave Response of V3Si Single Crystals: Evidence for Two-Gap Superconductivity
The investigation of the temperature dependences of microwave surface
impedance and complex conductivity of V3Si single crystals with different
stoichiometry allowed to observe a number of peculiarities which are in
remarkable contradiction with single-gap Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory. At
the same time, they can be well described by two-band model of
superconductivity, thus strongly evidencing the existence of two distinct
energy gaps with zero-temperature values Delta1~1.8Tc and Delta2~0.95Tc in
V3Si.Comment: Submitted to Europhysics Letter
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