TY - JOUR
T1 - Testing spin-flip scattering as a possible mechanism of ultrafast demagnetization in ordered magnetic alloys
AU - Günther, Stefan
AU - Spezzani, Carlo
AU - Ciprian, Roberta
AU - Grazioli, Cesare
AU - Ressel, Barbara
AU - Coreno, Marcello
AU - Poletto, Luca
AU - Miotti, Paolo
AU - Sacchi, Maurizio
AU - Panaccione, Giancarlo
AU - Uhlíř, Vojtěch
AU - Fullerton, Eric E.
AU - De Ninno, Giovanni
AU - Back, Christian H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 American Physical Society.
PY - 2014/11/21
Y1 - 2014/11/21
N2 - We use element-resolved IR-pump/extreme ultraviolet-probe experiments to disentangle the ultrafast interplay of the magnetic sublattices of an ordered crystalline magnetic alloy. As a paradigmatic example, we investigate the case of the FeRh alloy, which shows a delayed response for the different components. Furthermore, a detailed time-resolved magneto-optic study shows that the data can be analyzed by only assuming Elliot-Yafet-like scattering, as the underlying mechanism for ultrafast demagnetization, resulting in an unexpected nonmonotonic dependence of the spin-flip rate, as a function of quenching.
AB - We use element-resolved IR-pump/extreme ultraviolet-probe experiments to disentangle the ultrafast interplay of the magnetic sublattices of an ordered crystalline magnetic alloy. As a paradigmatic example, we investigate the case of the FeRh alloy, which shows a delayed response for the different components. Furthermore, a detailed time-resolved magneto-optic study shows that the data can be analyzed by only assuming Elliot-Yafet-like scattering, as the underlying mechanism for ultrafast demagnetization, resulting in an unexpected nonmonotonic dependence of the spin-flip rate, as a function of quenching.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.180407
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.180407
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84918773768
SN - 1098-0121
VL - 90
JO - Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
JF - Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
IS - 18
M1 - 180407
ER -