Photo-creating supercooled spiral-spin states in a multiferroic manganite

Abstract

We demonstrate that dynamics of the ab-spiral-spin order in a magnetoelectric multiferroic Eu0.55Y0.45MnO3 can be unambiguously probed through optical second harmonic signals, generated via the spin-induced ferroelectric polarization. In the case of relatively weak photoexcitation,the ferroelectric and the spiral-spin order remains interlocked, both relaxing through spin-lattice relaxation in the non-equilibrium state. When the additional optical pulse illuminating sample is intense enough to induced a local phase transition thermally, the system creates a metastable state of the bc-spiral-spin order (with the electric polarization P//c) via supercooling across the first-order phase transition between ab- and bc-spiral. The supercooled state of bc-spiral spin is formed in the thermodynamical ground state of ab-spiral (P//a), displaying a prolonged lifetime with strong dependence on the magnetic field along the a-axis. The observed photo-switching between the two distinct multiferroic states sheds light on novel photoinduced phenomena in spiral-spin multiferroics.

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