Single-Laser-Pulse-Driven Thermal Limit of the Quasi-Two-Dimensional Magnetic Ordering in Sr 2 IrO 4

Wang, R.; Sun, J.; Meyers, D.; Lin, J. Q.; Yang, J.; Li, G.; Ding, H.; DiChiara, Anthony D.; Cao, Y.; Liu, J.; Dean, M. P. M.; Wen, Haidan; Liu, X.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.11.041023

Title: Single-Laser-Pulse-Driven Thermal Limit of the Quasi-Two-Dimensional Magnetic Ordering in ${Sr}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$

Journal Article · Tue Nov 02 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Physical Review. X

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.041023· OSTI ID:1828818

; Sun, J.; Meyers, D.; Lin, J. Q.; Yang, J.; Li, G.; Ding, H.; DiChiara, Anthony D.;

; Liu, J.;

; Wen, Haidan;

Upon femtosecond-laser stimulation, generally materials are expected to recover back to their thermal- equilibrium conditions, with only a few exceptions reported. Here, we demonstrate that deviation from the thermal-equilibrium pathway can be induced in canonical 3D antiferromagnetically (AFM) ordered Sr₂IrO₄ by a single 100-fs-laser pulse, appearing as losing long-range magnetic correlation along one direction into a glassy condition. We further discover a "critical-threshold ordering"behavior for fluence above approximately 12 mJ/cm², which we show corresponds to the smallest thermodynamically stable c-axis correlation length needed to maintain long-range quasi-two-dimensional AFM order. We suggest that this behavior arises from the crystalline anisotropy of the magnetic-exchange parameters in Sr₂IrO₄, whose strengths are associated with distinctly different timescales. As a result, they play out very differently in the ultrafast recovery processes, compared with the thermal-equilibrium evolution. Thus, our observations are expected to be relevant to a wide range of problems in the nonequilibrium behavior of low-dimensional magnets and other related ordering phenomena.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1828818

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1832768; OSTI ID: 1839687

Report Number(s):: BNL-222431-2021-JAAM; PRXHAE; 041023

Journal Information:: Physical Review. X, Journal Name: Physical Review. X Vol. 11 Journal Issue: 4; ISSN 2160-3308

Publisher:: American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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