Heterogeneous Magnetic Order Melting Triggered by Ultrafast Lattice Control at the LaAlO3/NdNiO3 Interface

DOI: 10.1364/UP.2014.07.Mon.D.4

Authors: Michael Först (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter) , Andrea Caviglia (Delft University of Technology) , Raoul Scherwitzl (University of Geneva) , Pavlo Zubko (University of Geneva) , Hubertus Bromberger , Roman Mankowsky (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter) , Stuart Wilkins (Brookhaven National Laboratory) , Yi De Chuang (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) , Wei-sheng Lee (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) , William F. Schlotter (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) , Joshua J. Turner (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) , Georgi L. Dakovski (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) , Michael Minitti (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) , Joe Robinson (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) , Jean Marc Triscone (University of Geneva) , Sarnjeet Dhesi (Diamond Light Source) , Andrea Cavalleri (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter)
Co-authored by industrial partner: No

Type: Conference Paper
Conference: International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena
Peer Reviewed: No

State: Published (Approved)
Published: January 2015
Diamond Proposal Number(s): 7285

Abstract: We use femtosecond Resonant Soft X-ray Diffraction to observe heterogeneous melting of antiferromagnetic order in an epitaxially grown NdNiO3 film. Cross-interface coupling launches a propagating phase front following direct lattice excitation of the LaAlO3 substrate.

Subject Areas: Physics


Instruments: I06-Nanoscience