Antiferromagnetic opto-spintronics

P Němec, M Fiebig, T Kampfrath, AV Kimel - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Control and detection of spin order in ferromagnetic materials is the main principle enabling
magnetic information to be stored and read in current technologies. Antiferromagnetic …

Ultrafast optical spectroscopy of strongly correlated materials and high-temperature superconductors: a non-equilibrium approach

C Giannetti, M Capone, D Fausti, M Fabrizio… - Advances in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In the last two decades non-equilibrium spectroscopies have evolved from avant-garde
studies to crucial tools for expanding our understanding of the physics of strongly correlated …

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 …

Terahertz-driven nonlinear spin response of antiferromagnetic nickel oxide

S Baierl, JH Mentink, M Hohenleutner, L Braun, TM Do… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Terahertz magnetic fields with amplitudes of up to 0.4 Tesla drive magnon resonances in
nickel oxide while the induced dynamics is recorded by femtosecond magneto-optical …

Macrospin dynamics in antiferromagnets triggered by sub-20 femtosecond injection of nanomagnons

D Bossini, S Dal Conte, Y Hashimoto, A Secchi… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The understanding of how the sub-nanoscale exchange interaction evolves in macroscale
correlations and ordered phases of matter, such as magnetism and superconductivity …

Magnetoplasmonics and femtosecond optomagnetism at the nanoscale

D Bossini, VI Belotelov, AK Zvezdin, AN Kalish… - Acs …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The reciprocal interaction between spins and light has long been one of the main topics in
fundamental studies of magnetism. Recent developments of nanolitography and other …

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 …

The importance of the interface for picosecond spin pumping in antiferromagnet-heavy metal heterostructures

FN Kholid, D Hamara, AFB Hamdan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Interfaces in heavy metal (HM)-antiferromagnetic insulator (AFI) heterostructures have
recently become highly investigated and debated systems in the effort to create spintronic …

Terahertz Optomagnetism: Nonlinear THz Excitation of GHz Spin Waves in Antiferromagnetic

EA Mashkovich, KA Grishunin, RV Mikhaylovskiy… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
A nearly single cycle intense terahertz (THz) pulse with peak electric and magnetic fields of
0.5 MV/cm and 0.16 T, respectively, excites both modes of spin resonances in the weak …

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 …