Large spin accumulation signals in ultrafast magneto-optical experiments
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| author | Anadón, Alberto Singh, Harjinder Díaz, Eva Le-Guen, Yann Hohlfeld, Julius Wilson, Richard B. Malinowski, Gregory Hehn, Michel Gorchon, Jon |
| author_facet | Anadón, Alberto Singh, Harjinder Díaz, Eva Le-Guen, Yann Hohlfeld, Julius Wilson, Richard B. Malinowski, Gregory Hehn, Michel Gorchon, Jon |
| contents | Magneto-optical techniques have become essential tools in spintronics, enabling the investigation of spin dynamics in the ultrafast regime. A key challenge in this field has been to accurately isolate the contributions to magneto-optical signals of spin transport phenomena from the local magnetization dynamics. The contribution of transported and accumulated spins was long believed to be orders of magnitude smaller than that of the magnetization and thus previous approaches to disentangle these signals have relied on specific experimental designs, usually including thick metal layers. Here, we present experimental evidence demonstrating that the magneto-optical signal from ultrafast spin accumulations can, under certain conditions, be comparable to or even exceed that of the magnetic layer in a standard ultrafast demagnetization experiment. Our findings provide a new framework for accessing and isolating these spin accumulations, allowing for time and depth dependent probing of transported spin and/or orbital angular momentum. |
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| spellingShingle | Large spin accumulation signals in ultrafast magneto-optical experiments Anadón, Alberto Singh, Harjinder Díaz, Eva Le-Guen, Yann Hohlfeld, Julius Wilson, Richard B. Malinowski, Gregory Hehn, Michel Gorchon, Jon Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Applied Physics Magneto-optical techniques have become essential tools in spintronics, enabling the investigation of spin dynamics in the ultrafast regime. A key challenge in this field has been to accurately isolate the contributions to magneto-optical signals of spin transport phenomena from the local magnetization dynamics. The contribution of transported and accumulated spins was long believed to be orders of magnitude smaller than that of the magnetization and thus previous approaches to disentangle these signals have relied on specific experimental designs, usually including thick metal layers. Here, we present experimental evidence demonstrating that the magneto-optical signal from ultrafast spin accumulations can, under certain conditions, be comparable to or even exceed that of the magnetic layer in a standard ultrafast demagnetization experiment. Our findings provide a new framework for accessing and isolating these spin accumulations, allowing for time and depth dependent probing of transported spin and/or orbital angular momentum. |
| title | Large spin accumulation signals in ultrafast magneto-optical experiments |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05838 |