Controlling the anisotropy of a van der Waals antiferromagnet with light

D Afanasiev, JR Hortensius, M Matthiesen… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Van der Waals magnets provide an ideal playground to explore the fundamentals of low-
dimensional magnetism and open opportunities for ultrathin spin-processing devices. The …

Ultrafast Coherent THz Lattice Dynamics Coupled to Spins in the van der Waals Antiferromagnet FePS3

F Mertens, D Mönkebüscher, U Parlak… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coherent THz optical lattice and hybridized phonon–magnon modes are triggered by
femtosecond laser pulses in the antiferromagnetic van der Waals semiconductor FePS3 …

Ultrafast spin current generated from an antiferromagnet

H Qiu, L Zhou, C Zhang, J Wu, Y Tian, S Cheng, S Mi… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Antiferromagnets (AFMs) have the potential to push spintronic devices from a static condition
or gigahertz frequency range to the terahertz range for the sake of high-speed processing …

Magnetoelectrics and multiferroics: theory, synthesis, characterisation, preliminary results and perspectives for all-optical manipulations

D Bossini, DM Juraschek, RM Geilhufe… - Journal of Physics D …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Solid state compounds exhibiting multiple and coupled macroscopic orders, named
multiferroics, represent a challenge for both theoretical and experimental modern …

Raman fingerprint of two terahertz spin wave branches in a two-dimensional honeycomb Ising ferromagnet

W Jin, HH Kim, Z Ye, S Li, P Rezaie, F Diaz… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) magnetism has been long sought-after and only very
recently realized in atomic crystals of magnetic van der Waals materials. So far, a …

Ultrafast optical excitation of coherent magnons in antiferromagnetic NiO

C Tzschaschel, K Otani, R Iida, T Shimura, H Ueda… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
In experiment and theory, we resolve the mechanism of ultrafast optical magnon excitation in
antiferromagnetic NiO. We employ time-resolved optical two-color pump-probe …

Zero-field optic mode beyond 20 GHz in a synthetic antiferromagnet

HJ Waring, NAB Johansson, IJ Vera-Marun… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Antiferromagnets have considerable potential as spintronic materials. Their dynamic
properties include resonant modes at frequencies higher than can be observed in …

Ultrafast amplification and nonlinear magnetoelastic coupling of coherent magnon modes in an antiferromagnet

D Bossini, M Pancaldi, L Soumah, M Basini… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We investigate the role of domain walls in the ultrafast magnon dynamics of an
antiferromagnetic NiO single crystal in a pump-probe experiment with variable pump photon …

Large ultrafast-modulated Voigt effect in noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn3Sn

HC Zhao, H Xia, S Hu, YY Lv, ZR Zhao, J He… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The time-resolved magneto-optical (MO) Voigt effect can be utilized to study the Néel order
dynamics in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials, but it has been limited for collinear AFM spin …

Femtosecond phononic coupling to both spins and charges in a room-temperature antiferromagnetic semiconductor

D Bossini, S Dal Conte, M Terschanski, G Springholz… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Spintronics is postulated on the possibility to employ the magnetic degree of freedom of
electrons for computation and couple it to charges. In this view the combination of the high …