Abstract

Understanding and controlling the antiferromagnetic order in multiferroic materials on an ultrafast time scale is a long standing area of interest, due to their potential applications in spintronics and ultrafast magnetoelectric switching. We present an optical pump-terahertz (THz) probe study on multiferroic Eu0.75Y0.25MnO3. The optical pump predominantly excites the d-d transitions of the Mn3+ ions, and the temporal evolution of the pump-induced transient conductivity is measured with a subsequent THz pulse. Two distinct, temperature-dependent decay times are revealed. The shorter relaxation time corresponds to spin-lattice thermalization, while the longer one is ascribed to electron-hole recombination. A spin-selection rule in the relaxation process is proposed in the magnetic phase. Slight suppression of the electromagnons was observed after the optical pump pulse within the spin-lattice thermalization time scale. These observed fundamental magnetic processes can shed light on ultrafast control of magnetism and photoinduced phase transitions in multiferroics.

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Title
Electrodynamics of photo-carriers in multiferroic Eu0.75Y0.25MnO3
Author
Huang, Yue 1 ; Aguilar, Rolando V 1 ; Trugman, Stuart A 1 ; Cheong, Sang-Wook 2 ; Long, Yuan 1 ; Min-Cheol, Lee 1 ; Zhu, Jian-Xin 1 ; Rosa, Priscila FS 1 ; Prasankumar, Rohit P 3 ; Yarotski, Dmitry A 1 ; Azad, Abul 1 ; Sirica, Nicholas S 4 ; Taylor, Antoinette J 1 

 Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, 5112Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA 
 Rutgers Center for Emergent Materials and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA 
 Enterprise Science Fund, Intellectual Ventures, Bellevue, WA, 98005, USA 
 Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, 5112Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA 
Pages
1607-1614
Publication year
2025
Publication date
2025
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
ISSN
21928606
e-ISSN
21928614
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3212253415
Copyright
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