Coexistence of Magnon-Induced Optical Vortex and Gaussian Beam Scattering Assisted by Rotational Umklapp Process

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21788v1
• Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:50:01 GMT
• Title: Coexistence of Magnon-Induced Optical Vortex and Gaussian Beam Scattering Assisted by Rotational Umklapp Process
• Abstract summary: We show that the crystal lattice, via the rotational Umklapp process, provides the missing angular momentum required for the Gaussian-beam scattering.<n>We predict that as the degree of light focusing increases, the relative efficiencies of the Gaussian-beam and optical-vortex scattering processes reverse.
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• Abstract: The exploitation of crystal-lattice symmetries to engineer angular momentum transfer between structured light and magnons marks a novel frontier for optomagnonic research. In Brillouin light scattering, when focused light propagates parallel to an external magnetic field and interacts with ferromagnetic uniform magnons, only optical-vortex scattering is expected to be permitted. Due to the combined effects of magneto-optical coupling and optical spin-orbit interaction, the transfer of magnon spin angular momentum to photon orbital angular momentum allows for this distinctive scattering phenomenon. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that, for a specific ferromagnetic crystal orientation, Gaussian-beam scattering coexists with the optical-vortex scattering, contrary to conventional expectations based on angular momentum conservation between magnons and photons. We show that the crystal lattice, via the rotational Umklapp process, provides the missing angular momentum required for the Gaussian-beam scattering. Furthermore, we predict that as the degree of light focusing increases, the relative efficiencies of the Gaussian-beam and optical-vortex scattering processes reverse.

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