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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus
MA 23: Functional Antiferromagnetism
MA 23.10: Talk
Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 12:00–12:15, HSZ 401
Nonlinear photocurrents in antiferromagnets — •Maximilian Merte1, Frank Freimuth1, Jan-Philipp Hanke1,2, Wanxiang Feng1,3, Stefan Blügel1, Lukasz Plucinski1, and Yuriy Mokrousov1,2 — 1Peter Grünberg Institut and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich and JARA, 52425 Jülich, Germany — 2Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099Mainz, Germany — 3School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
In the field of spintronics, the interaction of antiferromagnets with external electromagnetic fields plays a crucial role for future prospects related to fundamental understanding and technological applications. In materials of reduced symmetry a photocurrent which is of second order in the electric field can occur. Recently a response tensor describing these currents was derived based on the non-equilibrium Keldysh formalism [1]. Here we want to report on the implementation of this second order response tensor by means of by means of Wannier interpolation, which can be applied as a postprocessing step to first-principles calculations performed with the Jülich DFT code FLEUR [2]. We apply the developed method to study photocurrents of linear and circular polarized light in antiferromagnets. – We acknowledge funding from DFG through SFB/TRR 173 and computing resources granted by JARA-HPC from RWTH-Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich under projects jara0161, jiff40 and jias1a. [1] Frank Freimuth et al., arXiv: 1710.10480 (2017) [2] www.flapw.de