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 …

Photoinduced Nonvolatile Displacive Transformation and Optical Switching in MnTe Semiconductors

S Mori, H Tanimura, T Ichitsubo… - ACS applied materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
MnTe is considered a promising candidate for next-generation phase change materials
owing to the reversible and nonvolatile phase transformation between its α and β'phases by …

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 …

Transient magnetoelastic coupling in CrSBr

YJ Bae, T Handa, Y Dai, J Wang, H Liu, A Scheie… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Recent research has revealed remarkable properties of the two-dimensional (2D) van der
Waals layered crystal CrSBr, which is both a semiconductor and an A-type antiferromagnet …

Prethermal time-crystalline spin ice and monopole confinement in a driven magnet

M Yue, Z Cai - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Studies of systems far from equilibrium open up new avenues for investigating exotic phases
of matter. A driven-dissipative frustrated spin system is examined in this study, and we …

Strong-coupling magnetophononics: Self-blocking, phonon-bitriplons, and spin-band engineering

M Yarmohammadi, M Krebs, GS Uhrig, B Normand - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Magnetophononics, the modulation of magnetic interactions by driving infrared-active lattice
excitations, is emerging as a key mechanism for the ultrafast dynamical control of both …

Selection rules for ultrafast laser excitation and detection of spin correlation dynamics in a cubic antiferromagnet

AE Fedianin, AM Kalashnikova, JH Mentink - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Exchange interactions determine the correlations between microscopic spins in magnetic
materials. Probing the dynamics of these spin correlations on ultrashort length and time …

Space-time symmetry breaking in nonequilibrium frustrated magnetism

M Yue, Z Cai - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Spontaneous symmetry breaking is responsible for rich phenomena in equilibrium physics.
Driving a system out-of-equilibrium can significantly enrich the possibility of spontaneous …

Thermal stress control of the polymorphic transformation in MnTe semiconductor films

S Mori, Y Wang, D Ando, F Narita, Y Sutou - Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
The polymorphic transformation of the compound MnTe between its wurtzite-type (β) and
nickeline-type (α) crystalline phase results in a significant change in its physical properties …

Molecular beam epitaxy, photoluminescence from Mn2+ multiplets and self-trapped exciton states of γ-MnTe single-crystalline thin films

H Cao, J Zhang, W Bai, D Zhao, R Lin, X Wang… - Applied Surface …, 2023 - Elsevier
Single-crystalline γ-MnTe thin films with zinc-blende structure were grown epitaxially on InP
(1 1 1) by molecular beam epitaxy. Two-dimensional growth regime and atomic surface …