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arXiv 2001.00540cond-mat.mtrl-scicond-mat.str-el
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用晶体场的光学工程使反铁磁体极化

Polarizing an antiferromagnet by optical engineering of the crystal field

Ankit S. Disa, Michael Fechner, Tobia F. Nova, Biaolong Liu, Michael Först, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, Paolo G. Radaelli, Andrea Cavalleri

摘要:

应变工程被广泛用于控制复杂材料的电磁性能。压磁效应提供了一种用应变控制磁性的有吸引力的途径,由此反铁磁体的交错自旋结构通过破坏晶场对称性而失补偿,这引起亚铁磁极化。压磁是特别有吸引力的,因为与磁致伸缩不同,它以线性顺序耦合应变和磁化,并允许适用于存储器和自旋电子学应用的双向控制。然而,它在功能器件中的应用迄今为止受到所需的低速和大的单轴应变的阻碍。在这里,我们表明,压磁的基本特征可以单独再现光学声子,它可以被光驱动到大振幅而不改变体积,因此超出了材料的弹性限度。我们利用非线性,三声子混频诱导所需的反铁磁CoF $_2$的晶体场失真。通过这种效应,我们产生了每晶胞0.2 $μ_B$的亚铁磁矩,几乎比机械应变大三个数量级。

英文摘要:

Strain engineering is widely used to manipulate the electronic and magnetic properties of complex materials. An attractive route to control magnetism with strain is provided by the piezomagnetic effect, whereby the staggered spin structure of an antiferromagnet is decompensated by breaking the crystal field symmetry, which induces a ferrimagnetic polarization. Piezomagnetism is especially attractive because unlike magnetostriction it couples strain and magnetization at linear order, and allows for bi-directional control suitable for memory and spintronics applications. However, its use in functional devices has so far been hindered by the slow speed and large uniaxial strains required. Here, we show that the essential features of piezomagnetism can be reproduced with optical phonons alone, which can be driven by light to large amplitudes without changing the volume and hence beyond the elastic limits of the material. We exploit nonlinear, three-phonon mixing to induce the desired crystal field distortions in the antiferromagnet CoF$_2$. Through this effect, we generate a ferrimagnetic moment of 0.2 $μ_B$ per unit cell, nearly three orders of magnitude larger than achieved with mechanical strain.

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