Probing emergent axion electrodynamics with waveguide apparatus

2025/05/30 by Gomes, André H., Moura-Melo, Winder A.
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Optics (physics.optics)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2505.24617

Abstract

We demonstrate that a conventional hollow conductor waveguide filled with a material exhibiting the coexistence of chiral magnetic and anomalous quantum Hall effects supports the propagation of transverse electromagnetic modes. This simple setup provides a direct and optically feasible method to probe the simultaneous presence of these phenomena, potentially enabling the detection of an emergent axion-like field within condensed matter systems.

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