Nonreciprocal Refraction of Light in a Magnetoelectric Material

S Toyoda1, N Abe1, T Arima1

  • 1Department of Advanced Materials Science, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8561, Japan.

Physical Review Letters
|September 7, 2019
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