Université de Fribourg

Lattice-mediated magnetic order melting in ${\mathrm{TbMnO}}_{3}$

Baldini, Edoardo ; Kubacka, Teresa ; Mallett, Benjamin P. P. ; Ma, Chao ; Koohpayeh, Seyed M. ; Zhu, Yimei ; Bernhard, Christian ; Johnson, Steven L. ; Carbone, Fabrizio

In: Physical Review B, 2018, vol. 97, no. 12, p. 125149

Recent ultrafast magnetic-sensitive measurements [Johnson et al., Phys. Rev. B 92, 184429 (2015); Bothschafter et al., Phys. Rev. B 96, 184414 (2017)] have revealed a delayed melting of the long-range cycloid spin order in TbMnO3 following photoexcitation across the fundamental Mott-Hubbard gap. The microscopic mechanism behind this slow transfer of energy from the photoexcited carriers to...