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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