Nonlinear Magnetization Dynamics Driven by Strong Terahertz Fields

Hudl, Matthias; d’Aquino, Massimiliano; Pancaldi, Matteo; Yang, See-Hun; Samant, Mahesh G.; Parkin, Stuart S.  P.; Dürr, Hermann A.; Serpico, Claudio; Hoffmann, Matthias C.; Bonetti, Stefano

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.123.197204

Title: Nonlinear Magnetization Dynamics Driven by Strong Terahertz Fields

Journal Article · Fri Nov 08 00:00:00 EST 2019 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.123.197204· OSTI ID:1608990

Hudl, Matthias ^[1]; d’Aquino, Massimiliano ^[2];

^[1]; Yang, See-Hun ^[3]; Samant, Mahesh G. ^[3]; Parkin, Stuart S. P. ^[4]; Dürr, Hermann A. ^[5]; Serpico, Claudio ^[2]; Hoffmann, Matthias C. ^[6];

^[7]

Stockholm Univ. (Sweden)
Univ. of Naples Federico II (Italy)
IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA (United States)
IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA (United States); Max-Planck Inst. für Mikrostrukturphysik, Halle (Germany)
Uppsala Univ. (Sweden)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Stockholm Univ. (Sweden); Ca’ Foscari Univ. of Venice, Venezia Mestre (Italy)

We present a comprehensive experimental and numerical study of magnetization dynamics in a thin metallic film triggered by single-cycle terahertz pulses of ~20 MV/m electric field amplitude and ~1 ps duration. The experimental dynamics is probed using the femtosecond magneto-optical Kerr effect, and it is reproduced numerically using macrospin simulations. The magnetization dynamics can be decomposed in three distinct processes: a coherent precession of the magnetization around the terahertz magnetic field, an ultrafast demagnetization that suddenly changes the anisotropy of the film, and a uniform precession around the equilibrium effective field that is relaxed on the nanosecond time scale, consistent with a Gilbert damping process. Macrospin simulations quantitatively reproduce the observed dynamics, and allow us to predict that novel nonlinear magnetization dynamics regimes can be attained with existing tabletop terahertz sources.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Swedish Research Council (SRC); European Research Council (ERC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; E0635001; 2015-SLAC-100238; 715452

OSTI ID:: 1608990

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 123, Issue 19; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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