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张国平教授学术报告会 - 12月21日
2017-12-19
报告时间：12月21日，14：00 - 15:30
报告地点：物理楼138室
Title：Laser-induced femtosecond demagnetization and all-optical spin switching
Abstract：
Since the pioneering experiment by the Beaurepaire and Bigot group in 1996, none had expected then that femtomagnetism has so much impact on the magnetism research today. Experimentally, they showed that an ultrashort 60-fs laser pulse could reduce the magnetic spin moment of fcc Ni within 1 ps, literally bypassing the phonon bottleneck. Thus, it is very puzzling from the theoretical point of view how the spin moment can drop so quickly. The entire process is nonlinear, nonequilibrium, and ultrafast. Before one could theoretically understand the entire process, the field took another turn and all-optical spin reversal was discovered, where a single laser pulse can switch spin from up to down and from down to up, without a magnetic field. This represents an important paradigm shift. To this end, the spin switching is found mainly in ferrimagnets. In October 2017, Bigot's group demonstrated a first spin reversal in a true ferromagnet. In this talk I will discuss femtomagnetism with emphasis on the latest developments in ultrafast magnetic storage on several hundred nanometer scales and all-optical spin switching devices for wireless communication.
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