Coherent terahertz control of antiferromagnetic spin waves

Nature Photonics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-34

  Kampfrath, Tobias ^a,b,c   Sell, Alexander ^a   Klatt, Gregor ^a   Pashkin, Alexej ^a   Mährlein, Sebastian ^a   Dekorsy, Thomas ^a   Wolf, Martin ^b   Fiebig, Manfred ^d   Leitenstorfer, Alfred ^a   Huber, Rupert ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

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

^c FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC SPINS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA; ELECTRONIC GROUND STATE; MAGNETIC COMPONENTS; MAGNETIC EXCITATIONS; OPTICAL PROBE PULSE; SINGLE-CYCLE TERAHERTZ PULSE; ZEEMAN INTERACTIONS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

SPIN WAVES;

EID: 78650541314     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.259     Document Type: Article

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