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Terahertz (THz) transient has become an effective method to study the optical and electronic spin characteristics of the rare earth orthoferrites RFeO3. High-throughput grown crystal sample is sliced at different locations, then the continuously tunable rare earth elements co-doped single crystal SmxPr1–xFeO3 is studied with antiferromagnetic spin mode (qAFM) and crystal field transitions of rare earth ions under zero magnetic fields. Using THz time-domain spectroscopy, the qAFM resonance frequencies of Sm0.2Pr0.8FeO3 and Sm0.4Pr0.6FeO3 single crystals are located on the connection line of the qAFM frequencies of PrFeO3 (0.57 THz) and SmFeO3 (0.42 THz), therefore the frequency of qAFM increases linearly with doping concentration of Sm3+ ion increasing. The Sm0.4Pr0.6FeO3 crystal undergoes a temperature-induced spin reorientation phase transition at about 160 K. When the crystal temperature is lower than 80 K, a wide band absorption peak of about 0.5 THz appears in the absorption spectrum of Sm0.2Pr0.8FeO3 due to the crystal field effect. Our results show that THz spectral data not only allow us to monitor the quality of rare earth orthoferrite crystals prepared by high throughput and analyze the rare earth elements of the sample, but also improve the ability to analyze the physical properties of the co-doped RFeO3.
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Keywords:
- terahertz time domain spectroscopy /
- antiferromagnet /
- rare earth orthoferrites /
- spin resonance
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图 1 (a)高通量制备准连续成分单晶SmxPr1–xFeO3示意图; (b) SmFeO3, PrFeO3 和Sm0.2Pr0.8FeO3单晶的晶体结构图
Figure 1. (a) Experimental schematic of quasi-continuous phase formation in the high-throughput grown SmxPr1–xFeO3 (x = 0, 0.4, 0.7, 0.9, 1.0); (b) the crystallography structure of the single crystal SmFeO3, PrFeO3, and Sm0.2Pr0.8FeO3.
图 2 (a) THz-TDS实验装置示意图; (b) b切Sm0.2Pr0.8FeO3单晶(红色); (c) Sm0.4Pr0.6FeO3单晶(蓝色) 300 K时的太赫兹时域透射谱, 此时HTHz//c; 插图分别表示振荡部分(40—60 ps)的傅里叶变换光谱及其洛伦兹拟合(虚线)
Figure 2. (a) Experimental setup diagram of THz-TDS. The THz time-domain waveforms transmitted through the b-cut (b) Sm0.2Pr0.8FeO3 and (c) Sm0.4Pr0.6FeO3 crystal at 300 K and the insets indicate the spectrum of oscillating parts obtained by Fourier transform of the waveform, which is fitted with a Lorentzian contour (dotted line).
图 4 b切Sm0.4Pr0.6FeO3单晶qAFM模式的共振频率和振幅随温度的关系; 插图表示Fe3+离子亚晶格的磁结构: 低温相(Г2 )、中间相(Г4 )、高温相(Г24 )
Figure 4. The frequencies and amplitudes of the qAFM resonances of b-cut Sm0.4 Pr0.6FeO3 crystal. Inset shows the magnetic structure of RFeO3 in the low-temperature(Г2 ), intermediate(Г4 ), and high temperature(Г24 )phases.
图 5 (a) Sm0.2Pr0.8FeO3单晶温度依赖的太赫兹时域谱, 为了表达更为清楚, 不同温度的时域光谱在纵轴方向做了等间距的平移; 40, 80和300 K时Sm0.2Pr0.8FeO3单晶的(b)折射率和(c)吸收系数, 插图为Pr3+离子基态在晶体场中能级劈裂示意图
Figure 5. (a) The temperature dependent THz waveforms transmitted through the Sm0.2Pr0.8FeO3 single crystal; (b) refractive indices and (c) absorption spectra of Sm0.2Pr0.8FeO3 at 40, 80, and 300 K. The inset in (c) shows the energy level splitting of Pr3+ ion in the ground state crystal field.
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[4] Kurihara T, Watanabe H, Nakajima M, Karube S, Oto K, Otani Y, Suemoto T 2018 Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 107202Google Scholar
[5] Baierl S, Hohenleutner M, Kampfrath T, Zvezdin A K, Kimel A V, Huber R, Mikhaylovskiy R V 2016 Nat. Photon. 10 715Google Scholar
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[7] Pierce R D, Wolfe R, Van Uitert L G 1969 J. Appl. Phys. 40 1241Google Scholar
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[11] Li X, Bamba M, Yuan N, et al. 2018 Science 361 794Google Scholar
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[13] Tonouchi M 2007 Nat. Photonics 1 97Google Scholar
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[15] Walowski J, Münzenberg M 2016 J. Appl. Phys. 120 140901Google Scholar
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[17] Seifert T, Jaiswal S, Martens U, et al. 2016 Nat. Photonics 10 483Google Scholar
[18] Huisman T J, Mikhaylovskiy R V, Costa J D, et al. 2016 Nat. Nanotechnol. 11 455Google Scholar
[19] Vicario C, Ruchert C, Ardana-Lamas F, Derlet P M, Tudu B, Luning J, Hauri C P 2013 Nat. Photonics 7 720Google Scholar
[20] Shalaby M, Vicario C, Hauri C P 2016 New J. Phys. 1 18
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Jin Z M, Ruan S Y, Li J G, Lin X, Ren W, Cao S X, Ma G H, Yao J Q 2019 Acta Phys. Sin. 68 167501Google Scholar
[25] Yamaguchi K, Nakajima M, Suemoto T 2010 Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 237201Google Scholar
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