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This review discusses the ultrafast magnetization dynamics within the gigahertz to terahertz frequency range in ferrimagnetic rare-earth iron garnets with different substitutions. In these garnets, the roles of spin-orbit and exchange…
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Itinerant ferromagnetism is one of the most studied quantum phase transitions, the transition point and the nature of this phase transition being widely discussed. In dilute Fermi liquids, this analysis has been carried out up to…
We study thermoelectric transport in ultrathin topological insulators under the application of circularly polarized off-resonant light of frequency {\Omega} and amplitude A. We derive analytical expressions for the band structure, orbital…
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We establish thermodynamic stability and gauge invariance in the magnetovortical matter of Dirac fermions under the coexistent rotation and strong magnetic field. The corresponding partition function reveals that the orbital contribution to…
The non-thermal optical control of magnetic order offers a promising route to ultrafast, energy-efficient information technologies. Although optical manipulation of magnetism in metals has been extensively studied, experimentally…
The theory of Raman scattering in half-metals by optical phonons interacting with conduction electrons is developed. We evaluate the effect of electron-phonon interactions at ferromagnetic ordering in terms of the Boltzmann equation for…
We present a quantum mechanical theory of optically induced dynamic nuclear polarization applicable to quantum dots and other interacting spin systems. The exact steady state of the optically driven coupled electron-nuclear system is…