1. Ultrafast opto-magnetic effects in the extreme ultraviolet spectral range.
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Hennecke, Martin, von Korff Schmising, Clemens, Yao, Kelvin, Jal, Emmanuelle, Vodungbo, Boris, Chardonnet, Valentin, Légaré, Katherine, Capotondi, Flavio, Naumenko, Denys, Pedersoli, Emanuele, Lopez-Quintas, Ignacio, Nikolov, Ivaylo P., Raimondi, Lorenzo, De Ninno, Giovanni, Salemi, Leandro, Ruta, Sergiu, Chantrell, Roy, Ostler, Thomas, Pfau, Bastian, and Engel, Dieter
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FARADAY effect ,MAGNETIC materials ,ULTRAVIOLET radiation ,SPIN-orbit interactions ,MAGNETISM - Abstract
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 pulse itself. As the IFE scales with the spin-orbit coupling strength of the involved electronic states, photo-exciting the strongly spin-orbit coupled core-level electrons in magnetic materials appears as an appealing method to transiently generate large opto-magnetic moments. Here, we investigate this scenario in a ferrimagnetic GdFeCo alloy by using intense and circularly polarized pulses of extreme ultraviolet radiation. Our results reveal ultrafast and strong helicity-dependent magnetic effects which are in line with the characteristic fingerprints of an IFE, corroborated by ab initio opto-magnetic IFE theory and atomistic spin dynamics simulations. Coherent light-matter interactions mediated by opto-magnetic phenomena like the inverse Faraday effect are expected to provide a non-thermal pathway for ultrafast manipulation of magnetism. The authors use intense and circularly polarized pulses of extreme ultraviolet radiation to induce particularly strong effects in a ferrimagnetic GdFeCo alloy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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