TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ghosh, Sumit
AU  - Blügel, Stefan
AU  - Mokrousov, Yuriy
TI  - Ultrafast optical generation of antiferromagnetic meron-antimeron pairs with conservation of topological charge
JO  - Physical review research
VL  - 5
IS  - 2
SN  - 2643-1564
CY  - College Park, MD
PB  - APS
M1  - FZJ-2023-01548
SP  - L022007
PY  - 2023
AB  - We propose a new mechanism to produce a meron-antimeron pair in a two dimensional antiferromagnet with an ultrafast laser pulse via thermal Schwinger mechanism. Unlike ultrafast skyrmion nucleation, this process conserves total topological charge. We systematically show different stages of the dynamics and define proper topological invariants to characterise the configurations. The emergent structure can retain its topological structure for up to 100ps. By introducing a topological structure factor we show that pair formation is robust against any random choice of initial magnetic configuration and can survive against disorder. Our findings demonstrate that the rich world of spin textures, which goes beyond conventional skyrmions, can be reached optically.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000970339800005
DO  - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L022007
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1005589
ER  -