Coupled states of electromagnetic fields with magnetic-dipolar-mode vortices: Magnetic-dipolar-mode vortex polaritons

A coupled state of an electromagnetic field with an electric or magnetic dipole-carrying excitation is well known as a polariton. Such a state is the result of the mixing of a photon with the excitation of a material. The most discussed types of polaritons are phonon polaritons, exciton polaritons, and surface-plasmon polaritons. Recently, it was shown that, in microwaves, strong magnon-photon coupling can be achieved due to magnetic-dipolar-mode (MDM) vortices in small thin-film ferrite disks. These coupled states can be specified as MDM-vortex polaritons. In this paper, we study the properties of MDM-vortex polaritons. We numerically analyze a variety of topological structures of MDM-vortex polaritons. Based on analytical studies of the MDM spectra, we give theoretical insight into a possible origin for the observed topological properties of the fields. We show that the MDM-vortex polaritons are characterized by helical-mode resonances. We demonstrate the PT-invariance properties of MDM oscillations in a quasi-two-dimensional ferrite disk and show that such properties play an essential role in the physics of the observed topologically distinctive states with the localization or cloaking of electromagnetic fields. We may suppose that one of the useful implementations of the MDM-vortex polaritons could be microwave metamaterial structures and microwave near-field sensors.