Atomistic modelling of magnetic materials provides unprecedented detail about the
underlying physical processes that govern their macroscopic properties, and allows the …

This article reviews static and dynamic interfacial effects in magnetism, focusing on
interfacially driven magnetic effects and phenomena associated with spin-orbit coupling and …

Spin current is the key element for nanoscale spintronic devices. For ultrafast operation of
such nano-devices, generation of spin current in picoseconds, a timescale that is difficult to …

The evolution of the electronic band structure of the simple ferromagnets Fe, Co, and Ni
during their well-known ferromagnetic-paramagnetic phase transition has been under …

Single-shot helicity-independent all-optical switching of magnetization in ferrimagnets
represents the fastest known approach for deterministic data recording. Recently, it was …

Exact calculated time evolutions in the framework of a many-electron model of itinerant
magnetism provide new insights into the laser-induced ultrafast demagnetization observed …

Despite more than 20 years of development, the underlying physics of the laser-induced
demagnetization process is still debated. We present a fast, real-time time-dependent …

We review and discuss the process of single-shot helicity-independent all-optical switching
of magnetization by which a single suitably-fast excitation, under the right conditions, toggles …

Understanding how a single laser pulse can toggle magnetization in a compensated 3 d
ferrimagnet is a critical problem in ultrafast magnetism. To resolve it, we test single-shot all …

We use femtosecond time-resolved hard x-ray scattering to detect coherent acoustic
phonons generated during ultrafast laser excitation of ferromagnetic bcc Fe films grown on …