Ultrafast opto-magnetic effects in the extreme ultraviolet spectral range

HENNECKE, Martin, VON KORFF SCHMISING, Clemens, 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 and RADU, Ilie (2024). Ultrafast opto-magnetic effects in the extreme ultraviolet spectral range. Communications Physics, 7 (1): 191. [Article]

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Abstract
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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