Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Faster chiral versus collinear magnetic order recovery after optical excitation revealed by femtosecond XUV scattering

  • Nico Kerber,
  • Dmitriy Ksenzov,
  • Frank Freimuth,
  • Flavio Capotondi,
  • Emanuele Pedersoli,
  • Ignacio Lopez-Quintas,
  • Boris Seng,
  • Joel Cramer,
  • Kai Litzius,
  • Daniel Lacour,
  • Hartmut Zabel,
  • Yuriy Mokrousov,
  • Mathias Kläui,
  • Christian Gutt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19613-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Chiral spin structures have great promise for future information processing applications, however little is known about their ultrafast dynamics. In this experimental study, the authors use femtosecond temporal evolution to observe the fast recovery of chiral magnetic order.