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Magneto-Optical Activity in Nonmagnetic Hyperbolic Nanoparticles

Joel Kuttruff1,2,*, Alessio Gabbani3,*, Gaia Petrucci3, Yingqi Zhao4, Marzia Iarossi4,5, Esteban Pedrueza-Villalmanzo6,7, Alexandre Dmitriev6, Antonietta Parracino8, Giuseppe Strangi9,10 et al.

Francesco De Angelis4, Daniele Brida1, Francesco Pineider3,†, and Nicolò Maccaferri1,11,‡

  • 1Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg, 162a avenue de la Faincerie, 1511, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Konstanz, Universitaetsstrasse 10, 78464 Konstanz, Germany
  • 3Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi 13, 56124, Pisa, Italy
  • 4Plasmon Nanotechnologies Unit, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, 16163, Genova, Italy
  • 5Dipartimento di Informatica, Bioingegneria, Robotica e Ingegneria dei Sistemi (DIBRIS). Università degli Studi di Genova, Via Balbi 5, 16126 Genova, Italy
  • 6Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg, Universitetsplatsen 1, 405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 7Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Kemigården 4, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
  • 8Department of Chemistry, Uppsala University, Husargatan 3, 752 37, Uppsala, Sweden
  • 9Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, 10600 Euclid Avenue, 44106, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
  • 10CNR-NANOTEC Istituto di Nanotecnologia and Department of Physics, University of Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci 87036, Rende, Italy
  • 11Department of Physics, Umeå University, Linnaeus väg 20, 907 36 Umeå, Sweden

  • *These authors contributed equally to this work.
  • †francesco.pineider@unipi.it
  • ‡nicolo.maccaferri@uni.lu nicolo.maccaferri@umu.se
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 217402 – Published 19 November, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.217402

Abstract

Active nanophotonics can be realized by controlling the optical properties of materials with external magnetic fields. Here, we explore the influence of optical anisotropy on the magneto-optical activity in nonmagnetic hyperbolic nanoparticles. We demonstrate that the magneto-optical response is driven by the hyperbolic dispersion via the coupling of metallic-induced electric and dielectric-induced magnetic dipolar optical modes with static magnetic fields. Magnetic circular dichroism experiments confirm the theoretical predictions and reveal tunable magneto-optical activity across the visible and near infrared spectral range.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 217402– Published 19 November, 2021
  • Received 19 May 2021
  • Accepted 23 September 2021
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