Femtosecond magnetization phenomena have been challenging our understanding for over
a decade. Most experiments have relied on infrared femtosecond lasers, limiting the spatial …

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 …

Does the excitation of ultrafast magnetization require direct interaction between the photons
of the optical pump pulse and the magnetic layer? Here, we demonstrate unambiguously …

Scientific investigations to understand the fascinating behavior of thin magnetic films
originating from fundamental quantum mechanical properties and particular spin coupling …

Development of ultrafast table-top x-ray sources that can map various spin, orbital, and
electronic configurations and reordering processes on their natural time and length scales is …

Understanding the loss of magnetic order and the microscopic mechanisms involved in laser
induced magnetization dynamics is one of the most challenging topics in today's magnetism …

The magnetization dynamics of CoPd films excited by circularly polarized ultrashort laser
pulses is studied by time-resolved x-ray magnetic circular dichroism. In those films the …

We use time-resolved resonant magnetic scattering experiments to investigate the laser
induced demagnetization of Co/Pt multilayers with large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy …

The molecular alignment induced by external fields is of significance in manipulating a
chemical reaction. In this paper, the field-free alignment of a FCN molecule steered by a …

During the past few years high-order harmonic generation (HHG) has opened up the field of
ultrafast spectroscopy to an ever larger community by providing a table-top and affordable …