物理
磁化
自旋电子学
凝聚态物理
磁化动力学
旋转泵
电子
量子力学
自旋霍尔效应
磁场
自旋极化
铁磁性
作者
Abhin Suresh,Branislav K. Nikolić
出处
期刊:Physical review
日期:2023-05-15
卷期号:107 (17)
被引量:2
标识
DOI:10.1103/physrevb.107.174421
摘要
The interaction of a femtosecond laser pulse with magnetic materials has been intensely studied for more than two decades in order to understand ultrafast demagnetization in single magnetic layers or terahertz emission from their bilayers with nonmagnetic spin-orbit (SO) materials. However, in contrast to well-understood spin and charge pumping by dynamical magnetization in spintronic systems driven by microwaves or current injection, analogous processes in light-driven magnets and radiation emitted by them remain largely unexplained due to the multiscale nature of the problem. Here we develop a multiscale quantum-classical formalism---where conduction electrons are described by quantum master equation (QME) of the Lindblad type, classical dynamics of local magnetization is described by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation, and incoming light is described by classical vector potential, while outgoing electromagnetic radiation is computed using the Jefimenko equations for retarded electric and magnetic fields---and apply it to a bilayer of antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetal ${\mathrm{Mn}}_{3}\mathrm{Sn}$, hosting noncollinear local magnetization, and SO-coupled nonmagnetic material. Our $\mathrm{QME}+\mathrm{LLG}+$Jefimenko scheme makes it possible to understand how a femtosecond laser pulse directly generates spin and charge pumping and electromagnetic radiation by the ${\mathrm{Mn}}_{3}\mathrm{Sn}$ layer, including both odd and even high harmonics (of the pulse center frequency) up to order $n\ensuremath{\le}7$. The directly pumped spin current then exerts spin torque on local magnetization whose dynamics, in turn, pumps additional spin and charge currents radiating in the terahertz range. By switching on and off LLG dynamics and SO couplings, we unravel which microscopic mechanism contributes the most to emitted terahertz radiation---charge pumping by local magnetization of ${\mathrm{Mn}}_{3}\mathrm{Sn}$ in the presence of its own SO coupling is far more important than standardly assumed (for other types of magnetic layers) spin pumping and subsequent spin-to-charge conversion within the adjacent nonmagnetic SO-coupled material.
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