Coherent control of the route of an ultrafast magnetic phase transition via low-amplitude spin precession

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  De Jong, J A ^a   Razdolski, I ^a   Kalashnikova, A M ^b   Pisarev, R V ^b   Balbashov, A M ^c   Kirilyuk, A ^a   Rasing, Th ^a   Kimel, A V ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW POWER ENGINEERING INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LASER PULSE; COHERENT CONTROL; DEGENERATE STATE; HELICITIES; HIGH TEMPERATURE PHASE; LIGHT INTENSITY; LOW-AMPLITUDE; MAGNETIC PHASE TRANSITIONS; MAGNETIZATION DIRECTION; MAGNETOOPTICAL IMAGING; OPPOSITE MAGNETIZATION; ORTHOFERRITES; PICOSECOND TIME SCALE; SAMPLE TEMPERATURE; SPIN PRECESSION; SPIN-REORIENTATION PHASE TRANSITION; TIME-RESOLVED; ULTRA-FAST;

IRON OXIDES; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIZATION;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 84859587486     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.157601     Document Type: Article

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