Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Control of antiferromagnetic domain distribution via polarization-dependent optical annealing

  • Takuya Higuchi,
  • Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10720
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The control of magnetic domains in antiferromagnets is limited by the lack of a net magnetic moment which may be manipulated by external stimuli. Here, the authors present an optical method for switching such domain states in MnF2based on azimuth-dependent absorption of linearly polarized light.