Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2018
Volume 63, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 5–9, 2018; Los Angeles, California
Session K42: Simulating Magnetization Switching Across Multiple Time and Length Scales
8:00 AM–11:00 AM,
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
LACC
Room: 502B
Sponsoring
Units:
DCOMP DCMP GMAG
Chair: David Cahill, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Abstract ID: BAPS.2018.MAR.K42.1
Abstract: K42.00001 : Ab initio theory and multiscale modeling of ultrafast laser-induced magnetic processes*
8:00 AM–8:36 AM
Presenter:
Peter Oppeneer
(Uppsala University)
Author:
Peter Oppeneer
(Uppsala University)
Investigating thin Co films on an insulating substrate we quantify contributions stemming from exchange splitting reduction due to local spin-flip processes as well as spin-wave excitations, and find a surprisingly large magnon contribution to the ultrafast demagnetization.2 Conversely, investigating Ni/Au bilayer films we predict a sizable fs spin current injected into the Au layer.3
A different, very interesting process is all-optical helicity-dependent magnetization switching where the magnetization of a material is manipulated with ultrashort circularly polarized laser pulses;4 its origin is still poorly understood. We develop materials’ specific ab initio theory for the magnetization induced by circularly polarized light, commonly referred to as inverse Faraday effect, applicable to absorbing materials.5 We show that the induced magnetization is strongly materials and frequency dependent and demonstrate a surprising difference between induced spin and orbital magnetizations. Combining effects of thermal laser heating with laser-induced magnetization in a multiscale modeling we predict all-optical switching in FePt nanoparticles with repeated circularly polarized laser pulses.6
[1] E. Beaurepaire et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 4250 (1996). [2] E. Turgut et al, Phys. Rev. B 94, 220408(R) (2016). [3] M. Hofherr et al, Phys. Rev. B 96, 100403(R) (2017) 100403. [4] C.-H. Lambert et al, Science 345, 1337 (2014). [5] M. Berritta et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 137203 (2016). [6] R. John et al, Sci. Rep. 7, 4114 (2017).
*Supported by EU H2020 Grant No. 737709 (FEMTOTERABYTE).
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2018.MAR.K42.1
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