All-optical subpicosecond magnetic switching in NiO(001)

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 22, 2004, Pages

  Gomez Abal R ^a,c   Ney, O ^a   Satitkovitchai, K ^a   Hubner W ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^c FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COBALT; CONTROL THEORY; DEMAGNETIZATION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; LASER PULSES; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC STORAGE; PHOTOEMISSION; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

CRYSTAL FIELD THEORY; MAGNETIC DYNAMICS; MAGNETIC SWITCHING; MULTIPLET STATES;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 3042716460     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.227402     Document Type: Article

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