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Laser-induced torques in metallic antiferromagnets
Frank FreimuthStefan BlügelYuriy Mokrousovsubject
Condensed Matter - Materials Science0103 physical sciencesMaterials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)FOS: Physical sciencesPhysics::Opticsddc:53002 engineering and technologyPhysics::Atomic Physics021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology010306 general physics0210 nano-technology01 natural sciencesdescription
We study the laser-induced torques in the antiferromagnet (AFM) Mn$_2$Au. We find that even linearly polarized light may induce laser-induced torques in Mn$_2$Au, i.e., the light does not have to be circularly polarized. The laser-induced torques in Mn$_2$Au are comparable in magnitude to those in the ferromagnets Fe, Co and FePt at optical frequencies. We also compute the laser-induced torques at terahertz (THz) frequencies and compare them to the spin-orbit torques (SOTs) excited by THz laser-pulses. We find the SOTs to be dominant at THz frequencies for the laser-field strengths used in experiments. Additionally, we show that the matrix elements of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) can be used to add SOI only during the Wannier interpolation, which we call Wannier interpolation of SOI (WISOI). This technique allows us to perform the Wannier interpolation conveniently for many magnetization directions from a single set of Wannier functions.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-29 |