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Ultrafast engineering of the magnetic Hamiltonian in frustrated magnets

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Abstract

We deploy ultrafast laser pulses to engineer the magnetic ground state of an iridium-based frustrated quantum magnet [1]. By resonantly pumping an IR active phonon, we engineer long-lasting changes to its magnetic Hamiltonian, as demonstrated by our THz spectroscopy measurements. Our results open new pathways to controlling complex magnetic orders in strong spin-orbit coupled frustrated spin degrees of freedom [2,3].

Publication: [1] Q Wang, A de la Torre, et al. arXiv:2407.17559 (2024)<br>[2] A De la Torre, B Zager, et al. Nature Communications 14 (1), 5018 (2023)<br>[3] E Mercer, L Schmidt, A De la Torre, in preparation

Presenters

  • Alberto de la Torre

    Northeastern University

Authors

  • Alberto de la Torre

    Northeastern University

  • Edward Mercer

    Northeastern University

  • Liam Schmidt

    Northeastern University

  • Qiaochu Wang

    Brown University

  • Kemp Plumb

    Brown University

  • Thales de Oliveira

    HZDR

  • Jan-Christoph Deinert

    HZDR