Femtosecond laser excitation drives ferromagnetic gadolinium out of magnetic equilibrium

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Carley, Robert ^a,b   Döbrich, Kristian ^a   Frietsch, Björn ^a,b   Gahl, Cornelius ^b   Teichmann, Martin ^a,b   Schwarzkopf, Olaf ^c   Wernet, Philippe ^c   Weinelt, Martin ^b  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE RESOLVED PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; EXCHANGE SPLITTING; FEMTOSECONDS; FERROMAGNETIC GADOLINIUM; FERROMAGNETS; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; MAGNETIC DICHROISM; MAGNETIC EQUILIBRIUM; MAGNETIC RESPONSE; PICOSECONDS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; ULTRA-FAST;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; GADOLINIUM; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASHORT PULSES; VALENCE BANDS;

LASER EXCITATION;

EID: 84864429730     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.057401     Document Type: Article

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