Optically driven ultrafast magnetic order transitions in two-dimensional ferrimagnets

Abstract

Laser-induced switching and manipulation of the spins in magnetic materials are of great interest to revolutionize future magnetic storage technology and spintronics with fastest speed and least power dissipative. Inspired by the recent discovery of intrinsic two-dimensional (2D) magnets, which provide unique platform to explore the new phenomenon for light-control magnetism in the 2D limit, we propose to realize light can efficiently tune magnetic properties of 2D ferrimagnets in early time. Here, using the 2D ferrimagnetic MXenes as prototype systems, our real-time density functional theory (TDDFT) simulation show that laser pulses can directly induce ultrafast spin-selective charge transfer between two magnetic sublattices on a few femtoseconds, and further generate dramatic changes in the magnetic structure of these MXenes, including a magnetic order transition from ferrimagnetic (FiM) to transient ferromagnetic (FM). The microscopic mechanism underpinning this ultrafast switching of magnetic order in MXenes is governed by optically induced inter-site spin transfer (OISTR) effect, which theoretically enables the ultrafast direct optical manipulation of the magnetic state in MXenes-based materials. Our results open new opportunities to optically manipulate the spin in 2D magnets.

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