Ultrafast optical control over spin and momentum in solids

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03247v1
• Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 12:24:21 GMT
• Title: Ultrafast optical control over spin and momentum in solids
• Authors: Q.Z. Li, S. Shallcross, J.K. Dewhurst, S. Sharma, P. Elliott
• Abstract summary: We show that charge of specified spin and crystal momentum can be created with precision throughout the first Brillouin zone. We thus establish a route from laser light to local control over excitations in reciprocal space, opening the way to a specified excited states at ultrafast time scales.
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• Abstract: The coupling of laser light to matter can exert sub-cycle coherent control over material properties, with optically induced currents and magnetism shown to be controllable on ultrafast femtosecond time scales. Here, by employing laser light consisting of both linear and circular pulses, we show that charge of specified spin and crystal momentum can be created with precision throughout the first Brillouin zone. Our hybrid pulses induce in a controlled way both adiabatic intraband motion as well as vertical interband excitation between valence and conduction bands, and require only a gapped spin split valley structure for their implementation. This scenario is commonly found in the 2d semi-conductors, and we demonstrate our approach with monolayer WSe$_2$. We thus establish a route from laser light to local control over excitations in reciprocal space, opening the way to the preparation of momenta specified excited states at ultrafast time scales.

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