Daniel M. Heligman, Alex M. Potts, and R. Valdés Aguilar
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Abstract
We report on the results of finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations of the terahertz response of a split ring resonator (SRR) metamaterial coupled to a hypothetical antiferromagnetic material (AFM) characterized by a magnon resonance. We find a hybridization of the SRR’s local magnetic field and the magnon, which manifests as an avoided crossing in the far-field transmission spectrum. We show that the strong light-matter coupling can be modelled via a two coupled oscillator model. We further evaluate the SRR-AFM coupling strength by varying the physical separation with a dielectric spacer between them. We find strong coupling for spacers thinner than 3 μm, suggesting far-field transmission measurements of metamaterial near-fields to be a versatile platform to investigate magnetic excitations of quantum materials.
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