Ultrafast optical manipulation of magnetic order

A Kirilyuk, AV Kimel, T Rasing - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2010 - APS
The interaction of subpicosecond laser pulses with magnetically ordered materials has
developed into a fascinating research topic in modern magnetism. From the discovery of …

Current-induced domain wall motion in nanoscale ferromagnetic elements

O Boulle, G Malinowski, M Kläui - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2011 - Elsevier
The manipulation of a magnetic domain wall (DW) by a spin polarized current in
ferromagnetic nanowires has attracted tremendous interest during the last years due to …

Perspective: Ultrafast magnetism and THz spintronics

J Walowski, M Münzenberg - Journal of Applied Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Coherent ultrafast magnetism induced by femtosecond laser pulses

JY Bigot, M Vomir, E Beaurepaire - Nature Physics, 2009 - nature.com
The quest for ultrafast magnetic processes has triggered a new field of research—
femtomagnetism: using femtosecond laser pulses to demagnetize ferromagnetic metallic …

Ultrafast Coherent THz Lattice Dynamics Coupled to Spins in the van der Waals Antiferromagnet FePS3

F Mertens, D Mönkebüscher, U Parlak… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coherent THz optical lattice and hybridized phonon–magnon modes are triggered by
femtosecond laser pulses in the antiferromagnetic van der Waals semiconductor FePS3 …

Distinguishing the ultrafast dynamics of spin and orbital moments in solids

C Boeglin, E Beaurepaire, V Halté, V López-Flores… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
For an isolated quantum particle, such as an electron, the orbital (L) and spin (S) magnetic
moments can change provided that the total angular momentum of the particle is conserved …

Theory of laser-induced ultrafast superdiffusive spin transport in layered heterostructures

M Battiato, K Carva, PM Oppeneer - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2012 - APS
Femtosecond laser excitation of a ferromagnetic material creates energetic spin-polarized
electrons that have anomalous transport characteristics. We develop a semiclassical theory …

Experimental investigation of temperature-dependent Gilbert dam** in permalloy thin films

Y Zhao, Q Song, SH Yang, T Su, W Yuan, SSP Parkin… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The Gilbert dam** of ferromagnetic materials is arguably the most important but least
understood phenomenological parameter that dictates real-time magnetization dynamics …

Controlling stationary one-way quantum steering in cavity magnonics

ZB Yang, XD Liu, XY Yin, Y Ming, HY Liu, RC Yang - Physical Review Applied, 2021 - APS
We show how to implement stationary one-way quantum steering with strong entanglement
in a cavity magnonic system that consists of two magnon modes and a microwave cavity …

Accessing the fundamentals of magnetotransport in metals with terahertz probes

Z **, A Tkach, F Casper, V Spetter, H Grimm… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Spin-dependent conduction in metals underlies all modern magnetic memory technologies,
such as giant magnetoresistance (GMR). The charge current in ferromagnetic transition …