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Real-time dynamics of angular momentum transfer from spin to acoustic chiral phonon in oxide heterostructures

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Shin,  D.
Department of Physics and Photon Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST);
Theory Group, Theory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;
Center for Free-Electron Laser Science;

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Choi, I. H., Jeong, S. G., Song, S., Park, S., Shin, D., Choi, W. S., et al. (2024). Real-time dynamics of angular momentum transfer from spin to acoustic chiral phonon in oxide heterostructures. Nature Nanotechnology, 19(9), 1277-1282. doi:10.1038/s41565-024-01719-w.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-935B-5
Abstract
Chiral phonons have recently been explored as a novel degree of freedom in quantum materials. The angular momentum carried by these quasiparticles is generated by the breaking of chiral degeneracy of phonons, owing to the chiral lattice structure or the rotational motion of ions of the material. In ferromagnets, a mechanism for generating non-equilibrium chiral phonons has been suggested, but their temporal evolution, which obeys Bose–Einstein statistics, remains unclear. Here we report the real-time dynamics of thermalized chiral phonons in an artificial superlattice composed of ferromagnetic metallic SrRuO3 and non-magnetic insulating SrTiO3. Following the photo-induced ultrafast demagnetization in the SrRuO3 layer, we observed the appearance of a magneto-optic signal in the superlattice, which is absent in the SrRuO3 single films. This magneto-optic signal exhibits thermally driven dynamic properties and a clear correlation with the thickness of the non-magnetic SrTiO3 layer, implying that it originates from thermalized chiral phonons. We use numerical calculations considering the magneto-elastic coupling in SrRuO3 to validate our experimental observations and the angular momentum transfer mechanism between the lattice and spin systems in ferromagnetic systems and also to the non-magnetic system.