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MORENO, Roberto, OSTLER, Thomas, CHANTRELL, Roy and CHUBYKALO-FESENKO, Oksana (2017). Conditions for thermally induced all-optical switching in ferrimagnetic alloys: Modeling of TbCo. Physical Review B (PRB), 96 (014409).
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Abstract
We present atomistic spin dynamics modeling of thermally induced magnetization switching (TIMS) of disordered ferrimagnetic TbCo alloys varying the Tb concentration, laser pulse fluence, and its duration. Our results indicate that deterministic TIMS occurs in a wide range of Tb concentrations and at large laser fluences with a pulse duration of 50 fs. We furthermore demonstrate that the occurrence of the transient ferromagnetic-like state is necessary, but after first reversal, the system may switch back. The presence of a magnetization compensation point or going through it is shown not to be required.With the increase of the laser pulse duration TIMS becomes stochastic so that for a 1 ps laser pulse width and beyond the deterministic heat-assisted AOS does not exist.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: | Faculty of Science, Technology and Arts > Department of Engineering and Mathematics |
| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.014409 |
| Depositing User: | Thomas Ostler |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2017 13:36 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2021 04:04 |
| URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16095 |
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