Abstract

The dynamically resolved response of the canted-antiferromagnet FeBO3 excited near a magnon resonance shows fast oscillations after THz-excitation’ followed by the magnons’ intrinsic relaxation’ enabling to probe transient magnetic relaxation dynamics over large frequency range.

Highlights

  • The ranges used for the scans varied from 70 ps with 20 fs step size to resolve fast oscillations up to 1 ns with 1 ps step size for resolving the slow ones

  • At 0.38 THz frequency, the refractive index is located between 1.50 and 2.96, while the absorption coefficient lies between 173 cm-1 and 597 cm-1

  • The response of the sample when the external continuous magnetic field and the THz magnetic field are parallel to each other was not measurable, whereas a strong signal is clearly observed with orthogonal magnetic fields

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Summary

Introduction

The electric field of the THz pulses was measured by electro-optic sampling in ZnTe; the spectrum extends up to 1.5 THz. This THz spectrum is able to excite the magnon frequency of the antiferromagnetic mode. The sample is a thin FeBO3 crystal (50 μm at the periphery - 200 μm in the center, measured with an optical microscope) placed in a DC magnetic field (BDC on Fig. 1(a)) perpendicular to the magnetic field of the THz pulses (BTHz on Fig. 1(a)). We first characterized the transmission of the FeBO3 samples in a commercial timedomain spectrometer for THz, in absence of an external magnetic field.

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