On-line SPICE-SPIN+X Seminars
On-line Seminar: 31.01.2024 - 15:00 CET
Terahertz spinorbitronics - driving and probing spin and orbital currents at highest frequencies
Tom Seifert, FU Berlin
Launching terahertz (THz) angular-momentum currents from a magnet into a nearby material can be accomplished by laser-induced ultrafast magnetization quenching. Two channels for those ultrafast currents can be distinguished: spin and orbital angular momentum, i.e, S and L, respectively. In my talk, I will focus on the generation, propagation and detection of such laser-induced THz S and L currents in prototypical thin-film heterostructures. In detail, I will show how THz emission spectroscopy led to the development of efficient spintronic terahertz emitters relying on the spin degree of freedom [1,2]. Recently, an inversion of this emitter principle allowed for a broadband spintronic terahertz detection [3]. Finally, I will show how this experimental technique helped revealing THz L currents with a giant decay length in tungsten [4], and enabled us to measure THz spin conductances of antiferromagnetic insulators.
[1] Seifert, Tom, et al. "Efficient metallic spintronic emitters of ultrabroadband terahertz radiation." Nature photonics 10 (2016).[2] Seifert, Tom S., et al. "Spintronic sources of ultrashort terahertz electromagnetic pulses." Applied Physics Letters 120 (2022).
[3] Chekhov, A. L., et al. "Broadband spintronic detection of the absolute field strength of terahertz electromagnetic pulses." Physical Review Applied 20 (2023).
[4] Seifert, Tom S., et al. "Time-domain observation of ballistic orbital-angular-momentum currents with giant relaxation length in tungsten." Nature Nanotechnology 18 (2023).
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