Microscopic model for ultrafast remagnetization dynamics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Chimata, Raghuveer ^a   Bergman, Anders ^a   Bergqvist, Lars ^b   Sanyal, Biplab ^a   Eriksson, Olle ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC MOMENTS; FEMTOSECONDS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; LANDAU-LIFSHITZ-GILBERT EQUATIONS; LASER FLUENCES; MICROSCOPIC MODELS; PICOSECONDS; REMAGNETIZATION; TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TIME-SCALES; ULTRA-FAST;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; SPIN FLUCTUATIONS;

ATOMS;

EID: 84867320886     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.157201     Document Type: Article

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