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Since the discovery of ultrafast demagnetization in Ni thin films in 1996, laser-induced ultrafast spin dynamics have become a prominent research topic in the field of magnetism and spintronics. This development offers new possibilities for…

The field of two-dimensional (2D) ferromagnetism has been proliferating over the past few years, with ongoing interests in basic science and potential applications in spintronic technology. However, a high-resolution spectroscopic study of…

We theoretically study the dynamic time evolution following laser pulse pumping in an antiferromagnetic insulator Cr$_{2}$O$_{3}$. From the photoexcited high-spin quartet states to the long-lived low-spin doublet states, the ultrafast…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-29 Feng Guo , Na Zhang , Wei Jin , Jun Chang

Production and manipulation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of coherent soft x-ray beams is demonstrated utilizing consecutive diffractive optics. OAM addition is observed upon passing the beam through consecutive fork gratings. The OAM…

In this study, we have studied the quantum tunneling of a single spin-orbit-coupled atom held in a periodically modulated optical lattice with an impurity. At the pseudocollapse points of quasienergy bands, where the dynamical localization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Xiaobing Luo , Baiyuan Yang , Jin Cui , Yu Guo , Lei Li , Qianglin Hu

We have studied theoretically the possibility of ultra-fast manipulation of a single electron spin in 2D semiconductor quantum dots, by means of high-frequency time-dependent electric fields. The electron spin degree of freedom is excited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-24 J. A. Budagosky , A. Castro

The use of advanced X-ray sources plays a key role in the study of dynamic processes in magnetically ordered materials. The progress in X-ray free electron lasers enables the direct and simultaneous observation of the femtosecond evolution…

It is usually admitted that the inverse Faraday effect (IFE) originates from the spin angular momentum (SAM) of light. In this paper, we evidence that part of the IFE in a metal is induced by the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light. On…

Altermagnets, magnetic materials with zero magnetization and spin-split band structure, have gained tremendous attention recently for their rich physics and potential applications. Here, we report on a microscopic tight-binding model that…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-01 Marc Vila , Veronika Sunko , Joel E. Moore

Superconductivity in UTe$_{2}$ has garnered significant attention, as it is widely recognized as a promising candidate for a spin-triplet superconductor. However, the symmetry of superconductivity and the microscopic origin of spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-17 Ryuji Hakuno , Youichi Yanase

A recent proposal suggested that neutron orbital angular momentum (OAM) states could be detected via spin-polarized absorption in polarized 3He, with predicted cross-section variations linked to the neutron's OAM. We experimentally tested…

Electronic nematicity in Fe-based superconductors is manifested by spontaneous rotational symmetry breaking and the formation of nematic domains with mutually orthogonal directions of $d_{xz}$/$d_{yz}$ orbital anisotropy. However, its…

Understanding the nature of magnetic interactions in ultra-small magnetic ensembles and their intrinsic properties is vital to uncover the dynamics therein. In this study we reveal the spin dynamics of hexagonally arranged Fe atoms on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Tamene R. Dasa , Valeri S. Stepanyuk

Coherent light-matter interactions mediated by opto-magnetic phenomena like the inverse Faraday effect (IFE) are expected to provide a non-thermal pathway for ultrafast manipulation of magnetism on timescales as short as the excitation…

Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$ attracts significant attention due to technological perspectives of realizing room temperature ferromagnetism in two-dimensional materials. Here we show that due to structural peculiarities of the Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$ monolayer,…

We study the effect of the synthetic spin-orbit coupling in a two-component Bose-Hubbard model in one dimension by employing the density-matrix renormalization group method. A ferromagnetic long-range order emerges in both Mott insulator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-21 Jize Zhao , Shijie Hu , Jun Chang , Ping Zhang , Xiaoqun Wang

Ferroelectric altermagnets (FEAMs) offer unique magnetoelectric coupling properties by combining the characteristics of both antiferromagnets and ferromagnets, yet their multifunctional electric control remains largely unexplored. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-30 ShuaiYu Wang , Wei-Wei Wang , Jiaxuan Fan , Xiaodong Zhou , Xiao-Ping Li , Lei Wang

Altermagnets (AM) are a recently discovered third class of collinear magnets, distinctly different from conventional ferromagnets (FM) and antiferromagnets (AF). AM have been actively researched in the last few years, but two aspects so far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Igor Mazin , Rafael González-Hernández , Libor Šmejkal

The orbital contribution to the magnetic properties of Fe in systems of decreasing dimensionality (bulk, surfaces, wire and free clusters) is investigated using a tight-binding hamiltonian in an $s, p,$ and $d$ atomic orbital basis set…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-22 Marie-Catherine Desjonquères , Cyrille Barreteau , Gabriel Autes , Daniel Spanjaard

A joint theoretical and experimental investigation is performed to understand the underlying physics of laser-induced demagnetization in Ni and Co films. Experimentally dynamics of spins is studied by determining the time-dependent…