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We employed the time-resolved magneto-optical setup described in [1] to study the optically driven lattice and spin dynamics of a 380 nm thick exfoliated flake of the antiferromagnetic van der Waals semiconductor FePS
The amplitude of the coherent signal vanishes as the phase transition to the paramagnetic phase occurs, revealing its close connection to the long-range magnetic order. The observed phonon mode is known to hybridize with a magnon mode in the presence of an external magnetic field [3], which we utilize to excite the hybridized phonon-magnon mode optically. These findings open a pathway towards the generation of coherent THz photomagnonic dynamics in a van der Waals antiferromagnet, possibly scalable down to thinner flakes.
The talk will discuss the properties of the tabletop setup as well as the investigation of the phonon and phonon-magnon dynamics in FePS
[1] F. Mertens et al., Review of Scientific Instruments 91 (2020)
[2] F. Mertens et al., Adv. Mater. 35 (2023)
[3] S. Liu et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 127 (2021)