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Main Authors: Hennecke, Martin, Schmising, Clemens von Korff, 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, Engel, Dieter, Oppeneer, Peter M., Eisebitt, Stefan, Radu, Ilie
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08564
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author Hennecke, Martin
Schmising, Clemens von Korff
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
Engel, Dieter
Oppeneer, Peter M.
Eisebitt, Stefan
Radu, Ilie
author_facet Hennecke, Martin
Schmising, Clemens von Korff
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
Engel, Dieter
Oppeneer, Peter M.
Eisebitt, Stefan
Radu, Ilie
contents 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.
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spellingShingle Ultrafast Opto-magnetic Effects in the Extreme Ultraviolet Spectral Range
Hennecke, Martin
Schmising, Clemens von Korff
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
Engel, Dieter
Oppeneer, Peter M.
Eisebitt, Stefan
Radu, Ilie
Materials Science
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.
title Ultrafast Opto-magnetic Effects in the Extreme Ultraviolet Spectral Range
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08564