Laser pulses are the shortest stimulus known to control the magnetization of materials and to
switch magnetic devices on the picosecond to femtosecond timescales. Femtosecond laser …

The interaction between ultrafast lasers and magnetic materials is an appealing topic. It not
only involves interesting fundamental questions that remain inconclusive and hence need …

Building upon the success and relevance of the 2014 Magnetism Roadmap, this 2017
Magnetism Roadmap edition follows a similar general layout, even if its focus is naturally …

This year the discovery of femtosecond demagnetization by laser pulses is 20 years old. For
the first time, this milestone work by Bigot and coworkers gave insight directly into the time …

Using a time-dependent electrical investigation of the all-optical switching in ferrimagnetic
and ferromagnetic Hall crosses via the anomalous Hall effect, intriguing insights into the rich …

Manipulation of magnetisation with ultrashort laser pulses is promising for information
storage device applications. The dynamics of the magnetisation response depends on the …

We present the first materials specific ab initio theory of the magnetization induced by
circularly polarized laser light in metals. Our calculations are based on nonlinear density …

The magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) is one of the most important building blocks of spintronic
logic and memory components for beyond-CMOS computation and communication …

Advances in nano-electronics, nano-optics, energy harvesting materials, and nanoparticle-
based photothermal therapies are motivating studies of the thermal properties of …

To understand the necessary condition for the observation of all-optical helicity-dependent
switching (AO-HDS) of magnetization in thin films, we investigated ferromagnetic Co/Pt and …