Ultrafast optical tuning of ferromagnetism via the carrier density
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS(2015)
摘要
Interest in manipulating the magnetic order by ultrashort laser pulses has thrived since it was observed that such pulses can be used to alter the magnetization on a sub-picosecond timescale. Usually this involves demagnetization by laser heating or, in rare cases, a transient increase of magnetization. Here we demonstrate a mechanism that allows the magnetic order of a material to be enhanced or attenuated at will. This is possible in systems simultaneously possessing a low, tunable density of conduction band carriers and a high density of magnetic moments. In such systems, the thermalization time can be set such that adiabatic processes dominate the photoinduced change of the magnetic order—the three-temperature model for interacting thermalized electron, spin and lattice reservoirs is bypassed. In ferromagnetic Eu 1− x Gd x O, we thereby demonstrate the strengthening as well as the weakening of the magnetic order by ~10% and within ≤3 ps by optically controlling the magnetic exchange interaction.
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Physical sciences, Condensed matter
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