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J C G Henriques1, T V C Antão1, N M R Peres1,2
1Department and Centre of Physics, University of Minho, Campus of Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal.
Abstract:
In this paper we consider a honeycomb antiferromagnet subject to an external laser field. Obtaining a time-independent effective Hamiltonian, we find that the external laser renormalizes the exchange interaction between the in-plane components of the spin-operators, and induces a synthetic Dzyaloshinskii-Moria interaction (DMI) between second neighbors. The former allows the control of the magnon dispersion's bandwidth and the latter breaks time-reversal symmetry inducing non-reciprocity in momentum space. The eigen-excitations of the system correspond to squeezed magnons whose squeezing parameters depend on the properties of the laser. When studying how these spin excitations couple with cavity photons, we obtain a coupling strength which can be enhanced by an order of magnitude via careful tuning of the laser's intensity, when compared to the case where the laser is absent. The transmission plots through the cavity are presented, allowing the mapping of the magnons' dispersion relation.
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