Van der Waals opto-spintronics

JT Gish, D Lebedev, TW Song, VK Sangwan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Van der Waals materials with long-range magnetic order show a range of correlated
phenomena that could be of use in the development of optoelectronic and spintronic …

Lightning the Spin: Harnessing the Potential of 2D Magnets in Opto‐Spintronics

S Liu, IA Malik, VL Zhang, T Yu - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Since the emergence of 2D magnets in 2017, the diversity of these materials has greatly
expanded. Their 2D nature (atomic‐scale thickness) endows these magnets with strong …

Ultrafast Laser Pulse Induced Transient Ferrimagnetic State and Spin Relaxation Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnets

J He, S Li, T Frauenheim, Z Zhou - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
We employ real-time time-dependent density functional theory (rt-TDDFT) and ab initio
nonadiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) to systematically investigate the ultrafast laser …

Terahertz field-induced metastable magnetization near criticality in FePS3

B Ilyas, T Luo, A von Hoegen, E Viñas Boström… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Controlling the functional properties of quantum materials with light has emerged as a
frontier of condensed-matter physics, leading to the discovery of various light-induced …

[HTML][HTML] Spin dynamics in van der Waals magnetic systems

C Tang, L Alahmed, M Mahdi, Y Xiong, J Inman… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
The discovery of atomic monolayer magnetic materials has stimulated intense research
activities in the two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials community. The field is …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrafast laser-induced spin–lattice dynamics in the van der Waals antiferromagnet CoPS3

D Khusyainov, T Gareev, V Radovskaia… - APL Materials, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
CoPS 3 stands out in the family of the van der Waals antiferromagnets XPS 3 (X= Mn, Ni, Fe,
and Co) due to the unquenched orbital momentum of the magnetic Co 2+ ions, which is …

[HTML][HTML] Valence band electronic structure of the van der Waals antiferromagnet FePS3

JE Nitschke, DL Esteras, M Gutnikov, K Schiller… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
Antiferromagnetic van der Waals materials have gained a lot of interest in recent years. They
can be exfoliated down to the two-dimensional (2D) limit while potentially preserving …

Understanding the Ising zigzag antiferromagnetism of and monolayers

K Yang, Y Ning, Y Zhou, D Lu, Y Ma, L Liu, S Pu, H Wu - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Transition metal phosphorous trichalcogenides represent a class of van der Waals magnetic
materials ideal for exploring two-dimensional magnetism. This study investigates the spin …

Magnetic order in 2D antiferromagnets revealed by spontaneous anisotropic magnetostriction

MJA Houmes, G Baglioni, M Šiškins, M Lee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The temperature dependent order parameter provides important information on the nature of
magnetism. Using traditional methods to study this parameter in two-dimensional (2D) …

Giant spin Nernst effect in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet due to magnetoelastic coupling induced gaps and interband transitions between magnonlike bands

DQ To, CY Ameyaw, A Suresh, S Bhatt, MJH Ku… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We analyze theoretically the origin of the spin Nernst and thermal Hall effects in FePS 3 as a
realization of a two-dimensional antiferromagnet (2D AFM). We find that a strong …