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We show how amplitude modulated, coherent high-frequency drives can be used to access otherwise difficult to reach collective resonances and off-resonantly induce parametric instabilities. In particular, we demonstrate that difficult to…

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We investigate how spatiotemporal spin polarized current can lead to terahertz frequency excitations in non-collinear antiferromagnets. By solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation numerically for non-collinear antiferromagnet, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Durga Prasad Goli , Se Kwon Kim

Antiferromagnets typically host spin-wave (magnon) excitations in the terahertz (THz) regime, offering a promising platform for high-speed magnonic information technologies. Harnessing these excitations requires sensitive control of their…

The ultrafast non-thermal control of magnetization has recently become feasible in canted antiferromagnets through photomagnetic instantaneous pulses [A.V. Kimel {\it et al.}, Nature {\bf 435}, 655 (2005)]. In this experiment circularly…

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We study thermodynamic behaviors of the antiferromagnetic zigzag spin chain in magnetic fields, using the density-matrix renormalization group method for the quantum transfer matrix. We focus on the thermodynamics of the system near the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nobuya Maeshima , Kouichi Okunishi

Excitation of antiferromagnetic spin waves in HoFeO$_{3}$ crystal combined with a split ring resonator (SRR) is studied using terahertz (THz) electromagnetic pulses. The magnetic field in the vicinity of the SRR induced by the incident THz…

Optics · Physics 2014-04-09 Y. Mukai , H. Hirori , T. Yamamoto , H. Kageyama , K. Tanaka

THz radiation allows for the controlled excitation of vibrational modes in molecules and crystals. We show that the circular motion of ions introduces inertial effects on electrons. In analogy to the classical Coriolis and centrifugal…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-08 R. M. Geilhufe

Excitation of coherent high-frequency magnons (quanta of spin waves) is critical to the development of high-speed magnonic devices. Here we computationally demonstrate the excitation of coherent sub-terahertz (THz) magnons in ferromagnetic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Shihao Zhuang , Jia-Mian Hu

Contrary to conventional wisdom that spin dynamics induced by current are exclusive to metallic magnets, we theoretically predict that such phenomena can also be realized in magnetic insulators, specifically in the magnetoelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-07 R. M. Dubrovin , Z. V. Gareeva , A. V. Kimel , A. K. Zvezdin

Understanding spin-lattice coupling represents a key challenge in modern condensed matter physics, with crucial importance and implications for ultrafast and 2D-magnetism. The efficiency of angular momentum and energy transfer between spins…

Ultrafast pump-probe imaging reveals that the efficiency of optical excitation of coherent spins waves in epitaxial iron garnet films can be effectively controlled by an external electric field at room temperature. Although a femtosecond…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 T. T. Gareev , N. E. Khokhlov , L. Körber , A. P. Pyatakov , A. V. Kimel

Although magnetoelectric effects in metals are usually neglected, assuming that applied electric fields are screened by free charge carriers, the skin depth, defining the penetration depth of the fields, is non-zero and for THz electric…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-01 R. M. Dubrovin , A. V. Kimel , A. K. Zvezdin

The traditional Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation has often delineated the linear and nonlinear magnetization dynamics, even at ultrashort timescales e.g., femtoseconds. In contrast, several other non-relativistic and relativistic spin…

Magnetic excitations are investigated for a hexagonal polar magnet Fe2Mo3O8 by terahertz spectroscopy. We observed magnon modes including an electric-field active magnon, electromagnon, in the collinear antiferromagnetic phase with spins…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-09 T. Kurumaji , Y. Takahashi , J. Fujioka , R. Masuda , H. Shishikura , S. Ishiwata , Y. Tokura

In condensed matter systems, interactions between collective modes offer avenues for nonlinear coherent manipulation of coupled excitations and quantum phases. Antiferromagnets, with their inherently coupled magnon modes, provide a…

The magnetic circular dichroism and the Faraday rotation are the fundamental phenomena of great practical importance arising from the breaking of the time reversal symmetry by a magnetic field. In most materials the strength and the sign of…

Using spin currents generated by fs laser pulses, we demonstrate excitation of GHz ferromagnetic resonance and THz ferrimagnetic exchange resonances in Co/Gd/Co/Gd multilayers by time-resolved magneto-optic Kerr effect measurements. Varying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Julian Hintermayr , Youri L. W. van Hees , Bert Koopmans

We experimentally demonstrate that the spin-orbit interaction can be utilized for direct electric-field tuning of the propagation of spin waves in a single-crystal yttrium iron garnet magnonic waveguide. Magnetoelectric coupling not due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-08 Xufeng Zhang , Tianyu Liu , Michael E. Flatté , Hong X. Tang

The capability of magnons to hybridize and strongly couple with diverse excitations offers a promising avenue for realizing and controlling emergent properties that hold significant potential for applications in devices, circuits, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-22 D. -Q. To , A. Rai , J. M. O. Zide , S. Law , J. Q. Xiao , M. B. Jungfleisch , M. F. Doty

Certain rare-earth iron garnet (RIG) thin films combine desirable properties such as low magnetic damping, high magnetostriction, and, in some cases, perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), making them attractive for spintronics…