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Ultrafast frustration breaking and magnetophononic driving of singlet excitations in a quantum magnet

Giorgianni, F.
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Wehinger, B.
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Allenspach, S.
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May 25, 2023
Physical Review B

Ideal magnetic frustration forms the basis for the emergence of exotic quantum spin states that are entirely nonmagnetic. Such singlet spin states are the defining feature of the Shastry-Sutherland model, and of its faithful materials realization in the quantum antiferromagnet SrCu2(BO3)2. To address these states on ultrafast timescales, despite their lack of any microscopic order parameter, we introduce a nonlinear magnetophononic mechanism to alter the quantum spin dynamics by driving multiple optical phonon modes coherently and simultaneously. We apply intense terahertz pulses to create a nonequilibrium modulation of the magnetic interactions that breaks the ideal frustration of SrCu2(BO3)2, such that previously forbidden physics can be driven in a coherent manner. Specifically, this driving populates a purely magnetic excitation, the singlet branch of the two-triplon bound state, by resonance with the difference frequency of two pumped phonons. Our results demonstrate how light-driven phonons can be used for the ultrafast and selective manipulation of interactions in condensed matter, even at frequencies far from those of the pump spectrum, offering valuable additional capabilities for the dynamical control of quantum many-body phenomena.

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research article
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.107.184440
Web of Science ID

WOS:001003686900003

Author(s)
Giorgianni, F.
Wehinger, B.
Allenspach, S.
Colonna, N.  
Vicario, C.
Puphal, P.
Pomjakushina, E.
Normand, B.  
Ruegg, Ch.  
Date Issued

2023-05-25

Published in
Physical Review B
Volume

107

Issue

18

Article Number

184440

Subjects

Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Physics, Applied

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Physics, Condensed Matter

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Materials Science

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Physics

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displacive excitation

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mott transition

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ground-state

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spin

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compound

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driven

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light

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srcu2(bo3)(2)

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phonon

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matter

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July 3, 2023
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/198764
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