Published December 2011 | Version v1
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Breatherlike electromagnetic wave propagation in an antiferromagnetic medium with Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction

  • 1. Department of Chemistry, Periyar University, Salem 636 011 (India)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Periyar University, Salem 636 011 (India)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Periyar University, Salem 636 011 (India) and Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy)

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We investigate the nature of propagation of electromagnetic waves (EMWs) in an antiferromagnetic medium with Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya (DM) interaction environment. The interplay of bilinear and DM exchange spin coupling with the magnetic field component of the EMW has been studied by solving Maxwell's equations coupled with a nonlinear spin equation for the magnetization of the medium. We made a nonuniform expansion of the magnetization and magnetic field along the direction of propagation of EMW, in the framework of reductive perturbation method, and the dynamics of the system is found to be governed by a generalized derivative nonlinear Schroedinger (DNLS) equation. We employ the Jacobi-elliptic function method to solve the DNLS equation, and the electromagnetic wave propagation in an antiferromagnetic medium is governed by the breatherlike spatially and temporally coherent localized modes under the influence of DM interaction parameter.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics (Print)
Journal Volume
84
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 066608-066608.12
ISSN
1539-3755

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