Spin-mediated shear oscillators in a van der Waals antiferromagnet

Zong, Alfred; Zhang, Qi; Zhou, Faran; Su, Yifan; Hwangbo, Kyle; Shen, Xiaozhe; Jiang, Qianni; Liu, Haihua; Gage, Thomas E.; Walko, Donald A.; Kozina, Michael E.; Luo, Duan; Reid, Alexander H.; Yang, Jie; Park, Suji; Lapidus, Saul H.; Chu, Jiun-Haw; Arslan, Ilke; Wang, Xijie; Xiao, Di; Xu, Xiaodong; Gedik, Nuh; Wen, Haidan

doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06279-y

Spin-mediated shear oscillators in a van der Waals antiferromagnet

Journal Article · Wed Aug 02 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Nature (London)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06279-y· OSTI ID:2397271

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Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Nanjing Univ. (China); Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM)
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Understanding how microscopic spin configuration gives rise to exotic properties at the macroscopic length scale has long been pursued in magnetic materials. One seminal example is the Einstein-de Haas effect in ferromagnets, in which angular momentum of spins can be converted into mechanical rotation of an entire object. However, for antiferromagnets without net magnetic moment, how spin ordering couples to macroscopic movement remains elusive. Here we observed a seesaw-like rotation of reciprocal lattice peaks of an antiferromagnetic nanolayer film, whose gigahertz structural resonance exhibits more than an order-of-magnitude amplification after cooling below the Neel temperature. Using a suite of ultrafast diffraction and microscopy techniques, we directly visualize this spin-driven rotation in reciprocal space at the nanoscale. This motion corresponds to interlayer shear in real space, in which individual micro-patches of the film behave as coherent oscillators that are phase-locked and shear along the same in-plane axis. Using time-resolved optical polarimetry, we further show that the enhanced mechanical response strongly correlates with ultrafast demagnetization, which releases elastic energy stored in local strain gradients to drive the oscillators. Finally, our work not only offers the first microscopic view of spin-mediated mechanical motion of an antiferromagnet but it also identifies a new route towards realizing high-frequency resonators up to the millimetre band, so the capability of controlling magnetic states on the ultrafast timescale can be readily transferred to engineering the mechanical properties of nanodevices.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357; AC02-76SF00515; SC0012509

OSTI ID:: 2397271

Journal Information:: Nature (London), Journal Name: Nature (London) Journal Issue: 7976 Vol. 620; ISSN 0028-0836

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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