Time-resolved x-ray magnetic circular dichroism study of ultrafast demagnetization in a CoPd ferromagnetic film excited by circularly polarized laser pulse

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  López Flores, Víctor ^a   Arabski, Jacek ^a   Stamm, Christian ^b   Halté, Valérie ^a   Pontius, Niko ^b   Beaurepaire, Eric ^a   Boeglin, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

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EID: 84864479537     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.014424     Document Type: Article

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