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Plasmon drag and photoinduced magnetic effects in plasmonic and magnetic metals

  • Md Afzalur Rab
  • Terence Baker
  • Natalia Noginova
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Abstract

Photoinduced electric effects in plasmonic and magnetic materials under pulsed laser illumination exceed the prediction of the electromagnetic momentum-transfer mechanism by orders of magnitude. In order to get more information on the nature of the effect we study the kinetics of photovoltages in permalloy thin films at different photoexcitation configurations. The photoinduced electric signals consist of magnetically dependent and magnetically independent components which are of significant magnitude and mainly follow the temporal profile of the laser pulse. In contrast, the predicted contribution from the Anomalous Nernst Effect is much weaker and exhibits substantially slower kinetics. These observations suggest that ultrafast photoexcited hot electrons, rather than thermal mechanisms, play the dominant role in generating the observed photovoltage.

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@misc{rab2026plasmon,
  title = {{Plasmon drag and photoinduced magnetic effects in plasmonic and magnetic metals}},
  author = {Md Afzalur Rab and Terence Baker and Natalia Noginova},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.05717},
  eprint = {2609.05717},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05717},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Plasmon drag and photoinduced magnetic effects in plasmonic and magnetic metals
AU  - Md Afzalur Rab
AU  - Terence Baker
AU  - Natalia Noginova
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/04
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.05717
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05717
AB  - Photoinduced electric effects in plasmonic and magnetic materials under pulsed laser illumination exceed the prediction of the electromagnetic momentum-transfer mechanism by orders of magnitude. In order to get more information on the nature of the effect we study the kinetics of photovoltages in permalloy thin films at different photoexcitation configurations. The photoinduced electric signals consist of magnetically dependent and magnetically independent components which are of significant magnitude and mainly follow the temporal profile of the laser pulse. In contrast, the predicted contribution from the Anomalous Nernst Effect is much weaker and exhibits substantially slower kinetics. These observations suggest that ultrafast photoexcited hot electrons, rather than thermal mechanisms, play the dominant role in generating the observed photovoltage.
ER  -