All optical ultrafast pure spin current in the altermagnet Cr$_2$SO

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12824v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:48:12 GMT
• Title: All optical ultrafast pure spin current in the altermagnet Cr$_2$SO
• Abstract summary: We show that infra-red valley excitation combined with a THz pulse envelope allows the generation of large and nearly 100% pure spin currents.<n>Results thus provide a practical and all-optical route to the generation of pure spin current in $d$-wave 2d altermagnets.
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• Abstract: All-optical generation of pure spin current -- the flow of spin in the absence of a corresponding charge flow -- relies on a symmetry based compensation of valley charge. The 2d $d$-wave altermagnets, ideal spintronics materials due to a very low spin-orbit coupling, possess a magnetic point group and highly anisotropic valley manifolds that would appear to preclude such current compensation, excluding them as materials for the ultrafast generation of pure spin current. Here we show that infra-red valley excitation combined with a THz pulse envelope allows the generation of large and nearly 100\% pure spin currents in the altermagnet Cr$_2$SO. Our approach is based on a valley selection rule coupling linearly polarized light to spin opposite valleys, along with the intrinsic momentum shift that a co-occurring THz pulse imbues a valley spin excitation with. These results thus provide a practical and all-optical route to the generation of pure spin current in $d$-wave 2d altermagnets, opening a route to lightwave control of spin in an environment with very low intrinsic spin mixing.

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