The magneto-optical Barnett effect and spin momentum transfer:Magnetization switching by circularly polarized light

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2007-02-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0702574v1

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Condensed Matter

Materials Science

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The interaction of polarized light with a spin in the presence of dissipation is shown to be equivalent to a spin transfer process that can cause switching. In plasmas, the spin transfer is dominated by a spin-spin exchange term while at lower energy densities it is dominated by an optical Barnett-like effect. This latter effect is used in conjunction with optical phonons to predict femtosecond magnetization reversal believed to be recently measured in GdCoFe thin films. Conventional approaches based on the Bloch and the Landau-Lifshitz equations do not reproduce this ultrafast switching.

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