Femtosecond signatures of optically induced magnons before ultrafast demagnetization
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| author | Rouzegar, Reza Franke, Oliver Lemut, Gal Gueckstock, Oliver Tong, Junwei Engel, Dieter Zhang, Xianmin Woltersdorf, Georg Brouwer, Piet Kampfrath, Tobias Remy, Quentin |
| author_facet | Rouzegar, Reza Franke, Oliver Lemut, Gal Gueckstock, Oliver Tong, Junwei Engel, Dieter Zhang, Xianmin Woltersdorf, Georg Brouwer, Piet Kampfrath, Tobias Remy, Quentin |
| contents | Optically induced demagnetization of 3d metallic ferromagnets proceeds as fast as ~100 fs and is a crucial prerequisite for spintronic applications, such as ultrafast magnetization switching and spin transport. On the 100 fs time scale, the magnetization dynamics is widely understood in the context of temperature models considering energy transfers between conduction electrons, magnons and crystal lattice. However, on even faster time scales, the flow of both angular momentum and energy between these subsystems has so far not been studied. Here, we measure ultrafast demagnetization by ultrabroadband THz-emission spectroscopy. We find that the rate of change of the magnetization does not rise instantaneously, but on a time scale as short as 10 fs. This rise is a signature that a transfer of angular momentum from the magnons to conduction electrons proceeds in less than 10 fs, before substantial demagnetization has happened. We further conclude that most of the spin dissipated by the lattice is transferred via magnon-lattice rather than electron-lattice interaction. These results show that the limiting speed of magnetization dynamics is not demagnetization, as generally believed, and harnessing the earliest magnon dynamics could be a new route towards an even faster spintronics. |
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| spellingShingle | Femtosecond signatures of optically induced magnons before ultrafast demagnetization Rouzegar, Reza Franke, Oliver Lemut, Gal Gueckstock, Oliver Tong, Junwei Engel, Dieter Zhang, Xianmin Woltersdorf, Georg Brouwer, Piet Kampfrath, Tobias Remy, Quentin Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Optically induced demagnetization of 3d metallic ferromagnets proceeds as fast as ~100 fs and is a crucial prerequisite for spintronic applications, such as ultrafast magnetization switching and spin transport. On the 100 fs time scale, the magnetization dynamics is widely understood in the context of temperature models considering energy transfers between conduction electrons, magnons and crystal lattice. However, on even faster time scales, the flow of both angular momentum and energy between these subsystems has so far not been studied. Here, we measure ultrafast demagnetization by ultrabroadband THz-emission spectroscopy. We find that the rate of change of the magnetization does not rise instantaneously, but on a time scale as short as 10 fs. This rise is a signature that a transfer of angular momentum from the magnons to conduction electrons proceeds in less than 10 fs, before substantial demagnetization has happened. We further conclude that most of the spin dissipated by the lattice is transferred via magnon-lattice rather than electron-lattice interaction. These results show that the limiting speed of magnetization dynamics is not demagnetization, as generally believed, and harnessing the earliest magnon dynamics could be a new route towards an even faster spintronics. |
| title | Femtosecond signatures of optically induced magnons before ultrafast demagnetization |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01796 |