Imaging ultrafast demagnetization dynamics after a spatially localized optical excitation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 21, 2014, Pages

  Von Korff Schmising, C ^a   Pfau, B ^a   Schneider, M ^a   Gunther C M ^a   Giovannella, M ^a,b   Perron, J ^c,d   Vodungbo, B ^c,d   Muller L ^e   Capotondi, F ^f   Pedersoli, E ^f   Mahne, N ^f   Luning J ^c,d   Eisebitt, S ^a,g,h  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d Universit Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6   (France)

^e DESY   (Germany)

^f SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^g HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^h LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE ELECTRON LASERS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

LOCALIZED EXCITATIONS; MAGNETIC DOMAIN PATTERNS; MAGNETIZATION DYNAMICS; OPTICAL STANDING WAVE; REMAGNETIZATION RATE; SPATIAL EVOLUTION; SPIN-POLARIZED ELECTRONS; ULTRAFAST DEMAGNETIZATION;

MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 84901936825     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.217203     Document Type: Article

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