Terahertz Antiferromagnetic Spin Hall Nano-Oscillator.
We consider the current-induced dynamics of insulating antiferromagnets in a spin Hall geometry. Sufficiently large in-plane currents perpendicular to the Néel order trigger spontaneous oscillations at frequencies between the acoustic and the optical eigenmodes. The direction of the driving current determines the chirality of the excitation. When the current exceeds a threshold, the combined effect of spin pumping and current-induced torques introduces a dynamic feedback that sustains steady-state oscillations with amplitudes controllable via the applied current. The ac voltage output is calculated numerically as a function of the dc current input for different feedback strengths. Our findings open a route towards terahertz antiferromagnetic spin-torque oscillators.
Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
Ran
R
Cheng
Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
Di
D
Xiao
Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway.
Arne
A
Brataas