PhD Studentship - Terahertz Magnon Control

Funding

A highly competitive EPSRC Quantum Technologies Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship offering the award of fees, together with a tax-free maintenance grant of £19,237 per year for 3.5 years. Training and support will also be provided.

Lead Supervisor’s full name & email address

Dr Joshua Freeman – j.r.freeman@leeds.ac.uk

Co-supervisor name(s)

Dr Joseph Barker – j.barker@leeds.ac.uk

A magnon is a collective excitation of spins in a magnetic material and can be characterised as a spin wave. These spin-waves are likely to play an important role in next-generation spintronics and magnetic data storage. Among the magnetic materials that support magnons, anti-ferromagnets are particularly interesting because they support magnons at high frequencies, in the terahertz range. In this project you will investigate, both theoretically and experimentally, how narrow linewidth terahertz lasers can be used to study and control high frequency magnons in antiferromagnets.

Please state your entry requirements plus any necessary or desired background

First or Upper Second Class UK Bachelor (Honours) or equivalent

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