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Micromagnetic Modeling of All-Optical Switching
摘要： The control of the magnetization at the microscale by pure optical means is fundamentally interesting and promises faster speeds for data storage devices. Although several experiments have shown that it is possible to locally reverse the magnetization of a ferromagnetic system by means of laser pulses, a completely theoretical description of these all-optical switching (AOS) processes is still lacking. Here, we develop an advanced micromagnetic solver that is applied to the numerical study of the AOS. The solver is based on the Landau–Lifshitz–Bloch equation that governs the dynamics of the magnetization coupled the microscopic three-temperature model, which describes the temporal evolution of the temperatures of the subsystems as caused by laser heating. The helicity-dependent magnetization switching is evaluated by a magnetooptical effective field caused by the inverse Faraday effect when a circularly polarized laser is applied to the sample. All the other usual terms of a full micromagnetic model are included (exchange, anisotropy, and Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction). As a test, the model is used to describe the local magnetization switching of thin-film samples with high perpendicular anisotropy. The results are in a good agreement with available experimental observations.
关键词： Landau–Lifshitz–Bloch (LLB) equation,three temperatures model (3TM),inverse Faraday effect (IFE),micromagnetism,All-optical switching (AOS)
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Light-induced magnetism in plasmonic gold nanoparticles
摘要： Strategies for the ultrafast optical control of magnetism have been a topic of intense research for several decades because of the potential impact in technologies such as magnetic memory, spintronics and quantum computation, as well as the opportunities for nonlinear optical control and modulation in applications such as optical isolation and non-reciprocity. Here we report experimental quantification of optically induced magnetization in plasmonic gold nanoparticles due to the inverse Faraday effect. The induced magnetic moment is large under typical ultrafast pulse excitation (<1014?W?m?2 peak intensity), with magnetization and demagnetization kinetics that are instantaneous within the subpicosecond time resolution of our study. Our results support a mechanism of coherent transfer of angular momentum from the optical field to the electron gas, and open the door to all-optical sub-wavelength strategies for optical isolation that do not require externally applied magnetic fields.
关键词： ultrafast optical control,quantum computation,inverse Faraday effect,spintronics,magnetic memory,plasmonic gold nanoparticles,light-induced magnetism
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57