The interaction of subpicosecond laser pulses with magnetically ordered materials has
developed into a fascinating research topic in modern magnetism. From the discovery of …

Heat-assisted magnetic recording is a promising approach for enabling large increases in
the storage density of hard disk drives. A laser is used to momentarily heat the recording …

This year the discovery of femtosecond demagnetization by laser pulses is 20 years old. For
the first time, this milestone work by Bigot and coworkers gave insight directly into the time …

We experimentally demonstrate that the magnetization can be reversed in a reproducible
manner by a single 40 femtosecond circularly polarized laser pulse, without any applied …

Micromagnetics has been the method of choice to interpret experimental data in the area of
microscopic magnetism for several decades. In this article, we show how progress has been …

The quest for ultrafast magnetic processes has triggered a new field of research—
femtomagnetism: using femtosecond laser pulses to demagnetize ferromagnetic metallic …

This review discusses the recent studies of magnetization dynamics and the role of angular
momentum in thin films of ferrimagnetic rare-earth–transition metal (RE–TM) alloys, eg …

The Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch equation is a formulation of dynamic micromagnetics valid at all
temperatures, treating both the transverse and longitudinal relaxation components important …

We review the phenomenology of light-induced ultrafast magnetization dynamics, with
emphasis on metallic compounds. The interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with …

The established methods for the numerical evaluation of magnetic material properties exist
only in certain limits, including first-principles methods, spin models, and micromagnetics. In …