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Switching nanomagnets using infrared lasers

June 20, 2024No Comments3 Mins Read
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Schematic representation of a metal phthalocyanine molecule that is set into two vibrations (red and blue), creating a rotating electric dipole moment (green) in the molecular plane and thus a magnetic field. Credit: Wilhelmer/Diez/Krondorfer/Hauser – TU Graz

When molecules are irradiated with infrared light, they begin to vibrate due to the energy supply. For Andreas Hauser from the Institute of Experimental Physics at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), this well-known phenomenon was the starting point for considering whether these oscillations could also be used to generate magnetic fields.

This is because atomic nuclei are positively charged, and when a charged particle moves, a magnetic field is created. Using the example of metal phthalocyanines—ring-shaped, planar dye molecules—Hauser and his team have now calculated that, due to their high symmetry, these molecules actually generate tiny magnetic fields in the nanometer range when infrared pulses act on them.

According to the calculations, it should be possible to measure the rather low but very precisely localized field strength using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The researchers have published their results in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Circular dance of the molecules

For the calculations, the team drew on preliminary work from the early days of laser spectroscopy, some of which was decades old, and used modern electron structure theory on supercomputers at the Vienna Scientific Cluster and TU Graz to calculate how phthalocyanine molecules behave when irradiated with circularly polarized infrared light. What happened was that the circularly polarized, i.e. helically twisted, light waves excite two molecular vibrations at the same time at right angles to each other.

“As every rumba dancing couple knows, the right combination of forwards-backwards and left-right creates a small, closed loop. And this circular movement of each affected atomic nucleus actually creates a magnetic field, but only very locally, with dimensions in the range of a few nanometers,” says Hauser.

Switching nanomagnets using infrared lasers
Andreas Hauser from the Institute of Experimental Physics at TU Graz. Credit: Lunghammer – TU Graz

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By selectively manipulating the infrared light, it is even possible to control the strength and direction of the magnetic field, explains Hauser. This would turn the molecules into high-precision optical switches, which could perhaps also be used to build circuits for a quantum computer.

Together with colleagues from the Institute of Solid State Physics at TU Graz and a team at the University of Graz, Hauser now wants to prove experimentally that molecular magnetic fields can be generated in a controlled manner.

“For proof, but also for future applications, the phthalocyanine molecule needs to be placed on a surface. However, this changes the physical conditions, which in turn influences the light-induced excitation and the characteristics of the magnetic field,” explains Hauser.

“We therefore want to find a support material that has minimal impact on the desired mechanism.” In a next step, the physicist and his colleagues want to compute the interactions between the deposited phthalocyanines, the support material and the infrared light before putting the most promising variants to the test in experiments.

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