Absence of Magnetic Fluctuations in the Ferromagnetic/Topological Heterostructure EuS/Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$

摘要

Heterostructures of topological insulators and ferromagnets offer newopportunities in spintronics and a route to novel anomalous Hall states. In onesuch structure, EuS/Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ a dramatic enhancement of the Curietemperature was recently observed. We performed Raman spectroscopy on a similarset of thin films to investigate the magnetic and lattice excitations.Interfacial strain was monitored through its effects on the Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$phonon modes while the magnetic system was probed through the EuS Raman mode.Despite its appearance in bare EuS, the heterostructures lack the correspondingEuS Raman signal. Through numerical calculations we rule out the possibility ofFabry-Perot interference suppressing the mode. We attribute the absence of amagnetic signal in EuS to a large charge transfer with the Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$.This could provide an additional pathway for manipulating the magnetic,optical, or electronic response of topological heterostructures.