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Femtosecond Opto-Magnetism

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Ultrafast Magnetism I

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The action of electric field of light on electronic dipoles, being the largest perturbation in physics of light-matter interaction, conserves the spin of electron. Nevertheless, an effective optical control of magnetism becomes possible due to spin-orbit interaction. Here we review the fundamentals and recent progress in the area of femtosecond opto-magnetism.

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Acknowledgments

The author thanks The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) Grants No. 214469 (UltraMagnetron), No. 246102 (IFOX), and No.280555. (GoFast) as well as the European Research Council Grant Agreement No. 257280 (Femtomagnetism).

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  1. Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010 6500, GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Alexey V. Kimel

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  1. Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS), Université de Strasbourg and CNRS, Strasbourg, France

    Jean-Yves Bigot

  2. Department of Physics, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Wolfgang Hübner

  3. Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM), Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Theo Rasing

  4. Physics Department, The University of York, York, United Kingdom

    Roy Chantrell

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Kimel, A.V. (2015). Femtosecond Opto-Magnetism. In: Bigot, JY., Hübner, W., Rasing, T., Chantrell, R. (eds) Ultrafast Magnetism I. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 159. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07743-7_59

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