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Due to its transverse nature, spin Hall effects (SHE) provide the possibility to excite and detect spin currents and magnetization dynamics even in magnetic insulators. Magnetic insulators are outstanding materials for the investigation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 M. B. Jungfleisch , W. Zhang , J. Sklenar , J. Ding , W. Jiang , H. Chang , F. Y. Fradin , J. E. Pearson , J. B. Ketterson , V. Novosad , M. Wu , A. Hoffmann

Van der Waals magnetic materials are currently of great interest as materials for applications in future ultrathin nanoelectronics and nanospintronics. Due to weak coupling between individual monolayers, these materials can be easily…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Wojciech Rudziński , Józef Barnaś , Anna Dyrdał

The unsteady, nonlinear magnetization dynamics induced by spin injection in an easy-plane ferromagnetic channel subject to an external magnetic field are studied analytically. Leveraging a dispersive hydrodynamic description, the…

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Standing slow-mode waves have been recently observed in flaring loops by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). By means of the coronal seismology technique transport coefficients in hot ($\sim$10…

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The spectral signatures of magnetic skyrmions under microwave field excitation are of fundamental interest and can be an asset for high frequency applications. These topological solitons can be tailored in multilayered thin films, but the…

Efficient and fast manipulation of antiferromagnets has to date remained a challenging task, hindering their application in spintronic devices. For ultrafast operation of such devices, it is highly desirable to be able to control the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-31 Markus Weißenhofer , Francesco Foggetti , Ulrich Nowak , Peter M. Oppeneer

The molecular-based ferrimagnetic insulator V(TCNE)x has gained recent interest for efficient spin-wave excitation due to its low Gilbert damping ratio a=4E-5, and narrow ferromagnetic resonance linewidth f=1Oe. Here we report a clean spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-01 Zichen Wang , Seth Kurfman , Sarah Ursel , E. Johnston-Halperin , Henning Sirringhaus

Optical pump-probe setups are commonly used for excitation and investigation of the spin dynamics in various types of magnetic materials. However, usually the spatially homogeneous excitation is considered. In the present study we describe…

Femtosecond laser filament generates strong terahertz (THz) pulse in air. In this paper, THz pulse waveform generated by femtosecond laser filament has been experimentally investigated as a function of the length of the filament.…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-22 Jiayu Zhao , Yizhu Zhang , Zhi Wang , Wei Chu , Bin Zeng , Ya Cheng , Zhizhan Xu , Weiwei Liu

We study the damping of perpendicular standing spin-waves (PSSWs) in ultrathin Fe films at frequencies up to 2.4 THz. The PSSWs are excited by optically generated ultrashort spin current pulses, and probed optically in the time domain.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-06 L. Brandt , R. Verba , N. Liebing , M. Ribow , I. Razdolski , V. Tyberkevych , A. Slavin , G. Woltersdorf , A. Melnikov

The power flow process mediated by spin current in the bilayer device consisting of ferromagnetic metal (FM) and non-magnetic metal (NM) layers is examined by realizing experimental evaluations for each process from the microwave absorption…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-25 Kenta Nakahashi , Kohei Takaishi , Takayuki Suzuki , Katsuichi Kanemoto

To achieve high efficiency and good performance of spintronic terahertz sources, we propose and corroborate a remnant magnetization method to radiate continuously and stably terahertz pulses from W/CoFeB/Pt magnetic nanofilms without…

We show that a bilayer graphene flake deposited above a ferromagnetic insulator can behave as a spin-filtering device. The ferromagnetic material induces exchange splitting in the graphene flake, and due to the Fano antiresonances occurring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 P. A. Orellana , L. Rosales , L. Chico , M. Pacheco

Antiferromagnetic materials have been proposed as new types of narrowband THz spintronic devices owing to their ultrafast spin dynamics. Manipulating coherently their spin dynamics, however, remains a key challenge that is envisioned to be…

Terahertz (THz) spin waves or their quanta, magnons, can be efficiently excited by acoustic phonons because these excitations have similar wavevectors in the THz regime. THz acoustic phonons can be produced using photoacoustic phenomena but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Shihao Zhuang , Xufeng Zhang , Yujie Zhu , Nian X. Sun , Chang-Beom Eom , Paul G. Evans , Jia-Mian Hu

Ultrafast demagnetization induced by femtosecond laser pulses in thin metallic layers is caused by the outflow of spin-polarized hot electron currents describable by the superdiffusive transport model. These laser-generated spin currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Pavel Baláž , Maciej Zwierzycki , Francesco Cosco , Karel Carva , Pablo Maldonado , Peter M. Oppeneer

Using the nascent concept of quantum spin-transfer torque [A. Zholud et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 119}, 257201 (2017); M. D. Petrovi\'{c} {\em et al.}, Phys. Rev. X {\bf 11}, 021062 (2021)], we demonstrate that a current pulse can be…

We demonstrate spin pumping, i.e. the generation of a pure spin current by precessing magnetization, without application of microwave radiation commonly used in spin pumping experiments. We use femtosecond laser pulses to simultaneously…

Understanding how fast short-range interactions build up long-range order is one of the most intriguing topics in condensed matter physics. FeRh is a test specimen for studying this problem in magnetism, where the microscopic spin-spin…

Ultrafast THz radiation generation from ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic bilayer heterostructure-based spintronic emitters generally exploits the conversion from spin- to charge-current within the nonmagnetic layer and its interface with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 Sandeep Kumar , Sunil Kumar