Calculations of Bulk and Surface Magnetic Polaritons in Modulated Antiferromagnetic / Non-Magnetic Superlattices

Recent advances in molecular beam epitaxy have renewed research on the physics of artificially structured magnetic superlattices. In particular, there has been much theoretical research on the propagation of magnetic spin waves or magnetic polaritons in magnetic superlattices.1 In this work, we have studied the effect of modulating both the period of an antiferromagnetic/non-Magnetic semi-infinite superlattice and the relative thickness of its individual layers to see how the dispersion relationships co (k) for bulk and surface magnetic polaritons are effected. We have also calculated the effect of an external magnetic field on (u (k) and our calculation goes beyond the magnetostatic approximation by taking retardation effects into account.