Weak coupling of light to the microscopic magnetic order in antiferromagnetic materials makes their optical characterization notoriously difficult. Now, a table-top magneto-optical technique has been developed for detecting the vector direction of antiparallel-aligned magnetic moments in a metallic antiferromagnet.
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Oppeneer, P. Lighting up antiferromagnets. Nature Photon 11, 74–76 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.274
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