All-optical magnetization reversal via x-ray magnetic circular dichroism
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| author | Yamada, Kihiro T. Izumi, Akira Ikebuchi, Tetsuya Okabe, Sumiyuki Kubo, Masaki Obata, Ryusei Kobayashi, Rei Kubota, Yuya Ohkochi, Takuo Kawamura, Naomi Higashi, Kotaro Shiota, Yoichi Moriyama, Takahiro Ono, Teruo Matsuda, Iwao Togashi, Tadashi Tanaka, Yoshihito Suzuki, Motohiro |
| author_facet | Yamada, Kihiro T. Izumi, Akira Ikebuchi, Tetsuya Okabe, Sumiyuki Kubo, Masaki Obata, Ryusei Kobayashi, Rei Kubota, Yuya Ohkochi, Takuo Kawamura, Naomi Higashi, Kotaro Shiota, Yoichi Moriyama, Takahiro Ono, Teruo Matsuda, Iwao Togashi, Tadashi Tanaka, Yoshihito Suzuki, Motohiro |
| contents | Light polarization is one of the most fundamental features, equivalent to energy and coherence. Magnetism changes light polarization, and vice versa. The irradiation of intense circularly polarized femtosecond pules to magnetic materials can alter the magnetic orders and elementary excitations, particularly in the visible to infrared spectral regions. Furthermore, the recent development of x-ray free-electron laser enables the element-specific trace of the ultrafast dynamics with high time and spatial resolution. However, the light helicity of x-ray photons has not yet been used to control order parameters in condensed matter materials, not limited to such magnetic phenomenon. Here, we demonstrate the deterministic magnetization reversal of a ferromagnetic Pt/Co/Pt multilayer solely by irradiating femtosecond pulses of circularly polarized hard x-rays. The observed all-optical magnetization switching depends on the helicity of incident x-ray pulses and is strongly resonant with the photon energy at the Pt $L_3$ edge. These results originate in the x-ray magnetic circular dichroism of Pt, involving helicity-dependent excitation from the 2$p_{3/2}$ core level to the exchange-split 5$d$ valence states owing to the magnetic proximity effect with Co. These findings mark a new frontier for examining interactions between light and matter in the x-ray region. |
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| spellingShingle | All-optical magnetization reversal via x-ray magnetic circular dichroism Yamada, Kihiro T. Izumi, Akira Ikebuchi, Tetsuya Okabe, Sumiyuki Kubo, Masaki Obata, Ryusei Kobayashi, Rei Kubota, Yuya Ohkochi, Takuo Kawamura, Naomi Higashi, Kotaro Shiota, Yoichi Moriyama, Takahiro Ono, Teruo Matsuda, Iwao Togashi, Tadashi Tanaka, Yoshihito Suzuki, Motohiro Materials Science Light polarization is one of the most fundamental features, equivalent to energy and coherence. Magnetism changes light polarization, and vice versa. The irradiation of intense circularly polarized femtosecond pules to magnetic materials can alter the magnetic orders and elementary excitations, particularly in the visible to infrared spectral regions. Furthermore, the recent development of x-ray free-electron laser enables the element-specific trace of the ultrafast dynamics with high time and spatial resolution. However, the light helicity of x-ray photons has not yet been used to control order parameters in condensed matter materials, not limited to such magnetic phenomenon. Here, we demonstrate the deterministic magnetization reversal of a ferromagnetic Pt/Co/Pt multilayer solely by irradiating femtosecond pulses of circularly polarized hard x-rays. The observed all-optical magnetization switching depends on the helicity of incident x-ray pulses and is strongly resonant with the photon energy at the Pt $L_3$ edge. These results originate in the x-ray magnetic circular dichroism of Pt, involving helicity-dependent excitation from the 2$p_{3/2}$ core level to the exchange-split 5$d$ valence states owing to the magnetic proximity effect with Co. These findings mark a new frontier for examining interactions between light and matter in the x-ray region. |
| title | All-optical magnetization reversal via x-ray magnetic circular dichroism |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03965 |