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ArticleScience advances2024

Spin vacuum switching.

Eddie Ivor Harris-Lee, John Kay Dewhurst, Samuel Shallcross, Sangeeta Sharma

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Article in Science advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Eddie Ivor Harris-LeeMax-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3467-4874
John Kay DewhurstMax-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle, Germany.
Samuel ShallcrossMax-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Max-Born-Strasse 2A, 12489 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4666-1501
Sangeeta SharmaMax-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Max-Born-Strasse 2A, 12489 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6914-1272

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ultrafast control over the magnetic orientation of matter represents a vital element of potential future spin-based electronics ("spintronics"). While physical mechanisms underpinning spin switching are established for picosecond time scales, we here present a physical route to magnetization toggle control, i.e., multiple switching events, at <100 femtoseconds. A minority spin current injected into a ferromagnet is shown to generate rapid depopulation of the minority channel below the ground-state Fermi level, creating a minority "spin vacuum" that then drives rapid charge redistribution from the majority channel and spin switching. We demonstrate that this mechanism reproduces many of the features of recent subpicosecond switching of ferromagnetic Co/Pt multilayers and provide simple practical rules for the design of materials via tailoring the electronic density of states to optimize spin vacuum control over magnetic order.

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PMID38985870
PMCPMC11235157

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