  Antiferromagnets and compensated ferrimagnets offer opportunities to
investigate spin dynamics in the 'terahertz gap' because their resonance modes
lie in the 0.3 THz to 3 THz range. Despite some inherent advantages when
compared to ferromagnets, these materials have not been extensively studied due
to difficulties in exciting and detecting the high-frequency spin dynamics,
especially in thin films. Here we show that spin-obit torque in a single layer
of the highly spin-polarized compensated ferrimagnet Mn2RuxGa is remarkably
efficient at generating spin-orbit fields \mu_0H_eff, which approach 0.1x10-10
T m2/A in the low-current density limit -- almost a thousand times the Oersted
field, and one to two orders of magnitude greater than the effective fields in
heavy metal/ferromagnet bilayers. From an analysis of the harmonic Hall effect
which takes account of the thermal contributions from the anomalous Nernst
effect, we show that the antidamping component of the spin-orbit torque is
sufficient to sustain self-oscillation. Our study demonstrates that spin
electronics has the potential to underpin energy-frugal, chip-based solutions
to the problem of ultra high-speed information transfer.
