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The magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is investigated in hematite, a collinear antiferromagnetic insulator, across a broad wavelength spectrum. By combining the optical measurements with magnetometry results, we unambiguously demonstrate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 Haolin Pan , Rui-Chun Xiao , Jiahao Han , Hongxing Zhu , Junxue Li , Qian Niu , Yang Gao , Dazhi Hou

When a polarized light beam is incident upon the surface of a magnetic material, the reflected light undergoes a polarization rotation. This magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) has been intensively studied in a variety of ferro- and…

We have measured the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) in an orthorhombic organic antiferromagnet $\kappa$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$Cu[N(CN)$_2$]Cl, which is a candidate for an altermagnet. From the Maxwell equations, we derived matrix-type general…

Recently identified altermagnets exhibit a distinctive dual-space nature: they possess spin-split electronic bands akin to ferromagnets in momentum space while maintaining the fully compensated magnetization of antiferromagnets in real…

Magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) is a powerful probe of broken time-reversal symmetry ($\mathcal{T}$), typically used to study ferromagnets. While MOKE has been observed in some antiferromagnets (AFMs) with vanishing magnetization, it is…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-08 V. Sunko , S. Ahsanullah , V. Jain , S. Weber , S. Kumaran , J. -Q. Yan , J. Orenstein , D. Ovchinnikov

We study the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) of the two-dimensional heterostructure CrI3/In2Se3/CrI3 by using density functional theory calculations and symmetry analysis. The spontaneous polarization in the In2Se3 ferroelectric layer…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-12 Ning Ding , Kunihiro Yananose , Carlo Rizza , Feng-Ren Fan , Shuai Dong , Alessandro Stroppa

The magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE), the differential reflection of oppositely circularly polarized light, has traditionally been associated with relativistic spin-orbit coupling (SOC), which links a particle's spin with its orbital…

The magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is often assumed to be proportional to the magnetisation of a magnetically ordered metallic sample; in metallic ferrimagnets with chemically distinct sublattices, such as rare-earth transition-metal…

Materials with no net magnetization are generally not magneto-optically active. While this is individually true for a collinear antiferromagnet (AFM) and a topological insulator (TI), it is shown here that the magneto-optic Kerr effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Amrit De , Tonmoy K. Bhowmick , Roger Lake

We carried out magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) and magnetization measurements on a single crystal of Ni2.00Mn1.16Ga0.84 in a longitudinal geometry. While there had been reports of polar geometry measurements so far, we show that -…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-11 Fikáček Jan , Kopecký Vít , Kaštil Jiří , Heczko Oleg , Honolka Jan

With the development of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials, magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is widely used to measure ferromagnetism in 2D systems. Although this effect is usually inactive in antiferromagnets (AFM), recent…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-14 Di Zhou , Ning Ding , Haoshen Ye , Shuai Dong , Shan-Shan Wang

Altermagnetism, a recently identified third class of collinear magnetism with spin-split bands and vanishing net magnetization, has emerged in hexagonal \alphaMnTe{} and is regarded as a promising platform for ultrafast, stray-field-free…

Altermagnets are a new class of magnets accompanying global time-reversal symmetry breaking (TRSB) without net magnetization. The TRSB results in formation of novel altermagnetic domains. Features of altermagnetic domains, in particular…

The linear magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is often used to probe magnetism of ferromagnetic materials, but MOKE cannot be applied to collinear antiferromagnets (AFs) due to the cancellation of sub-lattice magnetization. Magneto-optical…

One striking property of the Landau level spectrum of a Weyl semimetal (WSM) is the existence of a chiral Landau level, in which the electrons propagate unidirectionally along the magnetic field. This linearly dispersive level influences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Jean-Michel Parent , René Côté , Ion Garate

In the non-collinear antiferromagnet Mn$_3$Sn, we compare simultaneous measurements of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) and the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) through two magnetic phase transitions: the high-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-24 A. L. Balk , N. H. Sung , S. M. Thomas , P. F. S. Rosa , R. D. McDonald , J. D. Thompson , E. D. Bauer , F. Ronning , S. A. Crooker

We report the magneto optic Kerr effect (MOKE) angle of Au magnetically excited by spin accumulation. We perform time resolved polar MOKE measurements on Au/Co heterostructures. In our experiment, the ultrafast optical excitation of the Co…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-27 Víctor H. Ortiz , Sinisa Coh , Richard B. Wilson

We present magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) spectrometer based on a modified Martin-Puplett interferometer, utilizing continuous wave sub-THz low-power radiation in broad frequency range. This spectrometer is capable of measuring the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-03 A. Glezer Moshe , R. Nagarajan , U. Nagel , T. Rõõm , G. Blumberg

Pyrochlore iridates have attracted significant interest due to their complex phase behavior arising from the interplay among electron correlations, quantum metric in flat bands, geometrically frustrated lattices, and topology induced by…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-07 Xingyue Han , Xiaoran Liu , Mikhail Kareev , Jak Chakhalian , Liang Wu

The Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect (MOKE) is a fundamental tool in magnetometry, pivotal for advancing research in optics, magnetism, and spintronics as a direct probe of magnetization. Traditional MOKE measurements primarily detect the…

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