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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus
MA 46: Ultrafast Magnetization Effects II
MA 46.2: Talk
Friday, March 31, 2023, 09:45–10:00, HSZ 02
Spin and momentum resolved ultrafast carrier dynamics in antiferromagnetic Dirac semimetal models — •Marius Weber1, Kai Leckron1, Baerbel Rethfeld1, Libor Šmejkal2, Jairo Sinova2, and Hans Christian Schneider1 — 1Department of Physics and Research Center OPTIMAS, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany — 2Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Systems with antiferromagnetic ordering in real space often exhibit topological features in momentum space that only recently have been investigated in a comprehensive fashion [1]. For instance, depending on the magnetic ordering, they may have band structures with a pronounced anisotropy in band energies and in the spin structure of their single-particle states due to Dirac fermions. We present numerical calculations of the electron dynamics due to electron-phonon interactions [2,3] in model systems with two-dimensional k-space that capture key properties of antiferromagnetic Dirac materials in momentum space. After an instantaneous heating of the electronic system we obtain a transient carrier distributions, which reflect the momentum-space features. Surprisingly, completely anisotropic carrier distribution may evolve, even from excited carrier distributions that are isotropic in energy, i.e., f(E(k)) = f(E).
[1] L. Šmejkal et al.; Phys. Rev. Let 118, 106402 (2017).
[2] K. Leckron et al.; Phys. Rev. B 96, 140408 (2017).
[3] S. Essert et al., Phys. Rev. B 84, 224405 (2011).