Controlling the competition between optically induced ultrafast spin-flip scattering and spin transport in magnetic multilayers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 19, 2013, Pages

  Turgut, Emrah ^a   La O Vorakiat, Chan ^a   Shaw, Justin M ^b   Grychtol, Patrik ^a   Nembach, Hans T ^b   Rudolf, Dennis ^c   Adam, Roman ^c   Aeschlimann, Martin ^d   Schneider, Claus M ^c   Silva, Thomas J ^b   Murnane, Margaret M ^a   Kapteyn, Henry C ^a   Mathias, Stefan ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLAYER SPINS; MICROSCOPIC MECHANISMS; OPTICALLY INDUCED; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; SPACER MATERIALS; SPIN TRANSPORT; SPIN-FLIP SCATTERING; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS;

DEMAGNETIZATION; DYNAMICS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC MULTILAYERS; MAGNETIZATION; SCATTERING; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 84877329240     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.197201     Document Type: Article

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