Non-reciprocal light diffraction by a vortex magnetic particle

Abstract

We report a theoretical study of light diffraction by a spherical magnetic particle with a vortex magnetization distribution. It is shown that the intensity of the diffracted light involves a non-reciprocal contribution. This contribution depends on the vorticity of particle magnetization. It appears due to the excitation of an electric quadrupole, magnetic dipole and the addition to the electric dipole moment in the particle, that depend on the particle magnetization vorticity. The estimation of the non-reciprocal contrbution for a cobalt particle and two linear polarizations of the incident light fits the data of recent experimental studies in the lattice of triangle magnetic particles by an order of magnitude.