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Spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates are a flexible experimental platform to engineer synthetic quantum many-body systems. In particular, they host the so-called stripe phase, an instance of a supersolid state of matter. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-24 C. S. Chisholm , S. Hirthe , V. B. Makhalov , R. Ramos , R. Vatré , J. Cabedo , A. Celi , L. Tarruell

Understanding the interface dynamics in non-equilibrium quantum systems remains a challenge. We study the interface dynamics of strongly coupled immiscible binary superfluids by using holographic duality. The full nonlinear evolution of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-05-30 Yu-Ping An , Li Li , Chuan-Yin Xia , Hua-Bi Zeng

Laser radiation incident on a ferromagnetic sample produces excited electrons and currents whose spin polarization must not be aligned with the magnetization -- an effect due to spin-orbit coupling that is ubiquitous in spin- and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-03 Oliver Busch , Franziska Ziolkowski , Ingrid Mertig , Jürgen Henk

The optical pump-probe technique is a common tool for investigation of ultrafast spin dynamics, which usually utilizes single-diode detection averaging the dynamics over the pumped area. Using ultrafast imaging technique, we show…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 T. T. Gareev , N. E. Khokhlov , L. Körber , A. V. Kimel

The coupled nonlinear dynamics of ultracold quantum matter and electromagnetic field modes in an optical resonator exhibits a wealth of intriguing collective phenomena. Here we study a $\Lambda$-type, three-component Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Stefan Ostermann , Hon-Wai Lau , Helmut Ritsch , Farokh Mivehvar

Ultrafast magnetization dynamics in metallic heterostructures consists of a combination of local demagnetization in the ferromagnetic constituent and spin-dependent transport contributions within and in between the constituents. Separation…

Interfaces play a substantial role for the functional properties of structured magnetic materials and magnetic multilayers. Modeling the functional behavior of magnetic materials requires the treatment of the relevant phenomena at the…

Nonlinear spin systems exhibit rich and exotic dynamical phenomena, offering promising applications ranging from spin masers and time crystals to precision measurement. Recent theoretical work [T. Wang et al., Commun. Phys. 8, 41 (2025)]…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Xiaofan Wang , Haitao Lu , Hengyan Wang , Zhihuang Luo , Wenqiang Zheng

This paper presents the boundary conditions needed for drift-diffusion models to treat interfaces with spin-orbit coupling. Using these boundary conditions for heavy metal/ferromagnet bilayers, solutions of the drift-diffusion equations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 V. P. Amin , M. D. Stiles

Despite ground-breaking observations of supersolidity in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates, until now the dynamics of the emerging spatially periodic density modulations has been vastly unexplored. Here, we demonstrate the…

The ability to control spins in semiconductors is important in a variety of fields including spintronics and quantum information processing. Due to the potentially fast dephasing times of spins in the solid state [1-3], spin control…

We study the emission of femtosecond spin current pulses at Fe/Au interfaces. Using optical second harmonic generation we demonstrate the control of pulse shape and duration by varying the emitter thickness and show that it is determined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Alexey Melnikov , Liane Brandt , Niklas Liebing , Mirko Ribow , Ingrid Mertig , Georg Woltersdorf

Heterostructures combining graphene with 3d transition metal ferromagnets (FMs) enable various spin-based phenomena at ultrafast timescales. However, challenges such as the interfacial impedance mismatch, FM deposition-induced defect…

Central spin models, where a single spinful particle interacts with a spin environment, find wide application in quantum information technology and can be used to describe, e.g., the decoherence of a qubit over time. We propose a method of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Jacek Dobrzyniecki , Michał Tomza

We investigate the resonantly enhanced tunneling dynamics of ultracold bosons loaded on a tilted 1-D optical lattice, which can be used to simulate a chain of Ising spins and associated quantum phase transitions. The center of mass motion…

Magnetization dynamics, which determine the speed of magnetization switching and spin information propagation, play a central role in modern spintronics. Gaining its control will satisfy the different needs of various spintronic devices. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-29 Antarjami Sahoo , Haifeng Ding , Antonio Azevedo , Subhankar Bedanta

In this manuscript we present a theoretical framework and its numerical implementation to simulate the out-of-equilibrium electron dynamics induced by the interaction of ultrashort laser pulses in condensed-matter systems. Our approach is…

Using an ultrashort laser pulse we explore {\it ab-initio} the spin dynamics of Gd$_x$(FeCo)$_{1-x}$ at femtosecond time scales. Optical excitations are found to drive charge from Fe majority $d$-states to the unoccupied Gd $f$-minority…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-16 J. K. Dewhurst , Sam Shallcross , I. E. Radu , P. Elliott , C. v. Korff Schmising , S. Sharma

We present a combination of analytic calculations and a powerful numerical method for large spin baths in the low-field limit. The hyperfine interaction between the central spin and the bath is fully captured by the density matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-10 Daniel Stanek , Carsten Raas , Götz S. Uhrig

A theoretical calculation is performed for the ultrafast spin dynamics in nickel using an exact diagonalization method. The present theory mainly focuses on a situation where the intrinsic charge and spin dynamics is probed by the nonlinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 G. P. Zhang , W. Hübner