Author:
Biggs Megan F.,Ho Sin-Hang (Enoch),Alejandro Aldair,Lutz Matthew J.,Moss Clayton D.,Latin Abigail J.,Johnson Jeremy A.
Abstract
A circular polarized THz pulse is used to excite coherent chiral phonon motion in non-magnetic LiNbO3 and β-BaB2O4, which in turn induces a transient magnetic moment that we probe via the ultrafast Faraday effect.