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Interest in all-optical spin switching (AOS) is growing rapidly. The recent discovery of AOS in Mn$_2$RuGa provides a much needed clean case of crystalline ferrimagnets for theoretical simulations. Here, we attempt to simulate it using the state-of-the-art first-principles method combined with the Heisenberg exchange model. We first compute the spin moments at two inequivalent manganese sites and then feed them into our model Hamiltonian. We employ an ultrafast laser pulse to switch the spins. We find that there is a similar optimal laser field amplitude to switch spins. However, we find that the exchange interaction has a significant effect on the system switchability. Weakening the exchange interaction could make the system unswitchable. This provides a crucial insight into the switching mechanism in ferrimagnets.
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We employ an atomic spin model and present a systematic investigation from a single spin to a large system of over a million spins. To have an efficient spin switching, the electron initial momentum direction must closely follow the spins orientation, so the orbital angular momentum is transverse to the spin and consequently the spin-orbit torque lies in the same direction as the spin. The module of the spin-orbit torque is $lambda |{bf S}||{bf r}||{bf P}| sqrt{cos^2alpha+cos^2beta-2cosalpha cosbeta cosgamma} $, where $alpha(beta)$ is the angle between spin {bf S} and position {bf r}(momentum { bf P}) and $gamma$ is the angle between {bf r} and {bf P}. These findings are manifested in a much larger system. The spin response depends on underlying spin structures. A linearly polarized laser pulse creates a dip in a uniform inplane-magnetized thin film, but has little effects on eel and Bloch walls. Both right- and left- circularly polarized light ($sigma^+$ and $sigma^-$) have stronger but different effects in both uniform spin domains and Neel walls. While $sigma^+$ light creates a basin of spins pointing down, $sigma^-$ light creates a mound of spins pointing up. In the vicinity of the structure spins are reversed, similar to the experimental observation. $sigma^+$ light has a dramatic effect, disrupting spins in Bloch walls. By contrast, $sigma^-$ light has a small effect on Bloch walls because $sigma^-$ only switches down spins up and once the spins already point up, there is no major effect.
We report all-optical switching due to state-filling in quantum dots (QDs) within a Mach-Zehnder Interferometric (MZI) switch. The MZI was fabricated using InGaAsP/InP waveguides containing a single layer of InAs/InP QDs. A 1530-1570 nm probe beam is switched by optical excitation of one MZI-arm from the top. By exciting below the InGaAsP bandgap, we prove that the refractive index nonlinearity is only due to the QDs. The switching efficiency is 2 rad/(microW absorbed power). Probe wavelength insensitivity was obtained using a broad distribution of QDs.
Information technology depends on how one can control and manipulate signals accurately and quickly. Transistors are at the core of modern technology and are based on electron charges. But as the device dimension shrinks, heating becomes a major problem. The spintronics explores the spin degree of electrons and thus bypasses the heat, at least in principle. For this reason, spin-based technology offers a possible solution. In this review, we survey some of latest developments in all-optical switching (AOS), where ultrafast laser pulses are able to reverse spins from one direction to the other deterministically. But AOS only occurs in a special group of magnetic samples and within a narrow window of laser parameters. Some samples need multiple pulses to switch spins, while others need a single-shot pulse. To this end, there are several models available, but the underlying mechanism is still under debate. This review is different from other prior reviews in two aspects. First, we sacrifice the completeness of reviewing existing studies, while focusing on a limited set of experimental results that are highly reproducible in different labs and provide actual switched magnetic domain images. Second, we extract the common features from existing experiments that are critical to AOS, without favoring a particular switching mechanism. We emphasize that given the limited experimental data, it is really premature to identify a unified mechanism. We compare these features with our own model prediction, without resorting to a phenomenological scheme. We hope that this review serves the broad readership well.
We present a theoretical study of the the effects of off-resonant polarized optical fields on a ferromagnetic model system. We determine the light-induced dynamics of itinerant carriers in a system that includes magnetism at the mean-field level and spin-orbit coupling. We investigate an all-optical switching process for ferromagnets, which is close to the one proposed by Qaiumzadeh et al. [Phys. Rev. B 88, 064416] for the inverse Faraday effect. By computing the optically driven coherent dynamics together with incoherent scattering mechanisms we go beyond a perturbation expansion in powers of the optical field. We find an important contribution of a dynamic Stark effect coupling of the Raman type between the magnetic bands, which leads to a polarization-dependent effect on the magnetization that may support or oppose switching, but also contributes to demagnetization via an increase in electronic energy.
The first N-body simulation of interacting galaxies, even producing spiral arms, was performed by Erik Holmberg in Lund (1941), not with a numerical computer, but by his arrangement of movable light-bulbs and photocells to measure the luminosity at each bulb and thereby estimate the gravitational force. A decade later, and with the arrival of the first programable computers, computations of galactic dynamics were performed, which were later transferred into a N-body simulation movie. I present here the background details for this work with a description of the important elements to note in the movie which may be retrieved at http://ttt.astro.su.se/~po .
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