Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Beyond a phenomenological description of magnetostriction

  • A. H. Reid,
  • X. Shen,
  • P. Maldonado,
  • T. Chase,
  • E. Jal,
  • P. W. Granitzka,
  • K. Carva,
  • R. K. Li,
  • J. Li,
  • L. Wu,
  • T. Vecchione,
  • T. Liu,
  • Z. Chen,
  • D. J. Higley,
  • N. Hartmann,
  • R. Coffee,
  • J. Wu,
  • G. L. Dakovski,
  • W. F. Schlotter,
  • H. Ohldag,
  • Y. K. Takahashi,
  • V. Mehta,
  • O. Hellwig,
  • A. Fry,
  • Y. Zhu,
  • J. Cao,
  • E. E. Fullerton,
  • J. Stöhr,
  • P. M. Oppeneer,
  • X. J. Wang,
  • H. A. Dürr

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02730-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Although magnetostriction is universal in magnetic materials, understanding its microscopic origin remains challenging. Here the authors use X-ray and ultrafast electron diffraction to separate the material’s sub-picosecond spin and lattice responses and reveal the magnetoelastic stress generated by demagnetization.