Spin Pumping of an Easy-Plane Antiferromagnet Enhanced by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction.

Recently, antiferromagnets have received revived interest due to their significant potential for developing next-generation ultrafast magnetic storage. Here, we report dc spin pumping by the acoustic resonant mode in a canted easy-plane antiferromagnet α-Fe_{2}O_{3} enabled by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Systematic angle and frequency-dependent measurements demonstrate that the observed spin-pumping signals arise from resonance-induced spin injection and inverse spin Hall effect in α-Fe_{2}O_{3}-metal heterostructures, mimicking the behavior of spin pumping in conventional ferromagnet-nonmagnet systems.

Nanoscale Detection of Magnon Excitations with Variable Wavevectors Through a Quantum Spin Sensor.

We report the optical detection of magnons with a broad range of wavevectors in magnetic insulator YFeO thin films by proximate nitrogen-vacancy (NV) single-spin sensors. Through multimagnon scattering processes, the excited magnons generate fluctuating magnetic fields at the NV electron spin resonance frequencies, which accelerate the relaxation of NV spins. By measuring the variation of the emitted spin-dependent photoluminescence of the NV centers, magnons with variable wavevectors up to ∼5 × 10 m can be optically accessed, providing an alternative perspective to reveal the underlying spin behaviors in magnetic systems.

Interlayer Exciton Optoelectronics in a 2D Heterostructure p-n Junction.

Semiconductor heterostructures are backbones for solid-state-based optoelectronic devices. Recent advances in assembly techniques for van der Waals heterostructures have enabled the band engineering of semiconductor heterojunctions for atomically thin optoelectronic devices. In two-dimensional heterostructures with type II band alignment, interlayer excitons, where Coulomb bound electrons and holes are confined to opposite layers, have shown promising properties for novel excitonic devices, including a large binding energy, micron-scale in-plane drift-diffusion, and a long population and valley polarization lifetime.