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arXiv:2411.10849 (cond-mat)
[Submitted on 16 Nov 2024]

Title:Non-equilibrium THz-phonon spin coupling in CrI3

Authors:V Shokeen, M Pavelka, R Chulkov, A Yaroslavtsev, J Rogvall, D Muradas Belinchón, U Noumbe, M Abdel-Hafiez, M Venkata Kamalakar, O Grånäs, H A Dürr
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Abstract:Manipulating magnetism at the THz timescale in atomically thin ferromagnets by exploiting the interactions of spins with optical phonon modes presents an innovative idea for THz spintronics. Spin-phonon coupling raises an important question about the flow of spin angular momentum possibly to chiral phonons. We use femtosecond optical pulses to generate bound electron-hole pairs (excitons) in the 2D ferromagnet CrI3, and probe the subsequent charge and spin dynamics. The observed change in the optical signal during temporal pump-probe overlap represents the buildup of the exciton population. This is accompanied by the excitation of coherent optical phonon modes with 2.4 and 3.9 THz frequencies, corresponding to the bending and stretching of the Cr-I bonds. We observe both modes in the magnetism channel which agrees with first-principles calculations that identify changes in the exchange coupling due to the lattice displacements for both phonon modes.
Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
Cite as: arXiv:2411.10849 [cond-mat.str-el]
  (or arXiv:2411.10849v1 [cond-mat.str-el] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.10849

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From: Vishal Shokeen [view email]
[v1] Sat, 16 Nov 2024 17:57:51 UTC (636 KB)
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