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The discovery of femtosecond laser-induced ultrafast demagnetization in 1996 opened a new field, femtomagnetism, in which magnetic order can be quenched on timescales shorter than a picosecond. This seminal observation revealed that angular…

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A systematic investigation of spin injection behavior in Au/FM (FM = Fe and Ni) multilayers is performed using the superdiffusive spin transport theory. By exciting the nonmagnetic layer, the laser-induced hot electrons may transfer spin…

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We present a theory for the coherent magnetization dynamics induced by a focused ultrafast laser beam in magnetic films, taking into account nonthermal (inverse Faraday effect) and thermal (heating) actuation. The dynamic conversion between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 Ka Shen , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

To enhance the efficiency of next-generation ferroelectric (FE) electronic devices, new techniques for controlling ferroelectric polarization switching are required. While most prior studies have attempted to induce polarization switching…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-11 Chao Lian , Zulfikhar A. Ali , Hyuna Kwon , Bryan M. Wong

Current induced magnetization manipulation is a key issue for spintronic application. Therefore, deterministic switching of the magnetization at the picoseconds timescale with a single electronic pulse represents a major step towards the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-13 Y. Xu , M. Deb , G. Malinowski , M. Hehn , W. Zhao , S. Mangin

Light-matter interaction has become one of the promising routes to manipulating various physical feature of quantum materials in an ultrafast kinetics. In this work, we focus on the nonlinear optical effects of the spintronic behavior in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-06 J. Zhou , C. Zhang

Terahertz spin waves could be generated on-demand via all-optical manipulation of magnetization by femtosecond laser pulse. Here, we present an energy balance model, which explains the energy transfer rates from laser pulse to electron bath…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-08 Saeedeh Mokarian Zanjani , Mehmet C. Onbaşlı

We use single-cycle THz fields and the femtosecond magneto-optical Kerr effect to respectively excite and probe the magnetization dynamics in two thin-film ferromagnets with different lattice structure: crystalline Fe and amorphous CoFeB.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-24 S. Bonetti , M. C. Hoffmann , M. -J. Sher , Z. Chen , S. -H. Yang , M. Samant , S. S. P. Parkin , H. A. Dürr

We investigate the impact of non-collinear dual optical excitation on the magnetization precession in a permalloy thin film using two ultrashort laser pulses. By analyzing the magnetization dynamics using time-resolved magneto-optical…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-28 Sergii Parchenko , Davide Pecchio , Ritwik Mondal , Peter M. Oppeneer , Andreas Scherz

Faster magnetic recording technology is indispensable to massive data storage and big data sciences. {All-optical spin switching offers a possible solution}, but at present it is limited to a handful of expensive and complex rare-earth…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-03 G. P. Zhang , Y. H. Bai , T. F. George

With the goal of pushing Spintronic devices towards faster and faster timescales, we demonstrate, using ab-intio time-dependent density functional theory simulations of bulk Heusler compounds subject to ultrashort intense laser pulses, that…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-18 P. Elliott , T. Müller , J. K. Dewhurst , S. Sharma , E. K. U. Gross

Since the first experimental observation of all-optical switching phenomena, intensive research has been focused on finding suitable magnetic systems that can be integrated as storage elements within spintronic devices and whose…

The ultrafast response to an optical pulse excitation of the spin-spin exchange interaction in transition metal anti-ferromagnets is studied within the framework of the time-dependent spin-density functional theory. We propose a formulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Jacopo Simoni , Maria Stamenova , Stefano Sanvito

Light-spin coupling is an attractive phenomenon from the standpoints of fundamental physics and device applications, and has spurred rapid development recently. Whereas the current efforts are devoted to trivial magnetism, the interplay…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-13 Kaiying Dou , Wenhui Du , Zhonglin He , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Yandong Ma

We demonstrate how the antiferromagnetic order in heterostructures of NiO/Pt thin films can be modified by optical pulses. We irradiate our samples with laser light and identify an optically induced creation of antiferromagnetic domains by…

Exploring ultrafast magnetization control in two-dimensional (2D) magnets through optically driven coherent phonons has been well-established. Yet, the microscopic interplay between spin dynamics and lattice degrees of freedom remains less…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Zhaobo Zhou , Min Li , Thomas Frauenheim , Junjie He

Altermagnets (AMs), recently discovered unconventional magnets distinct from both ferro- and antiferromagnets, have rapidly emerged as a prominent research topic in condensed matter physics. AMs are characterized by alternating collinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Tongshuai Zhu , Di Zhou , Huaiqiang Wang , Su-Huai Wei , Jiawei Ruan

Altermagnets (AMs) are a recently identified class of unconventional collinear compensated antiferromagnets that exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This unconventional magnetic order gives rise…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-24 Bo Zhao , Fu Li , Wei Ren , Hao Wang , Hongbin Zhang

Altermagnets are an emerging third elementary class of magnets. Unlike ferromagnets, their distinct crystal symmetries inhibit magnetization while, unlike antiferromagnets, they promote strong spin polarization in the band structure. The…

Controlling the directionality of spin waves is a key ingredient in wave-based computing methods such as magnonics. In this paper, we demonstrate this particular aspect by using an all-optical point-like source of continuous spin waves…

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