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Inertial Dynamics of a Skymeron
Mona Bhukta, Duc Minh Tran, Kilian Leutner +19
Topological spin textures in antiferromagnets inherit the compensated magnetic order of the host material, resulting for skyrmions in the suppression of the skyrmion Hall effect an…
Topological spin-texture transitions in van der Waals magnets revealed by X-ray Fourier transform holography
Sourav Chowdhury, Soumyaranjan Dash, Michael Schneider +14
Nontrivial topological spin-textures, such as skyrmions, merons, bimerons, and skyrmioniums, are envisioned as robust building blocks for future memory and logic devices. Controlla…
The 2026 Skyrmionics Roadmap
Sabri Koraltan, Claas Abert, Manfred Albrecht +64
Magnetic skyrmions and related topological spin textures have emerged as a central topic in condensed-matter physics, combining fundamental significance with potential for transfor…
A fluctuation-free pathway for a topological magnetic phase transition
Riccardo Battistelli, Lukas Körber, Kai Litzius +27
Topological magnetic textures are particle-like spin configurations stabilized by competing interactions. Their formation is commonly attributed to fluctuation-driven, first-order…
Picosecond localization dynamics following ultrafast nanoscale magnetic switching
Daniel Metternich, Michael Schneider, Giuseppe Mercurio +28
Ultrashort laser pulses provide the fastest known way to switch magnetic order. Such excitation commonly creates nanometer-scale domains, even after homogeneous illumination when t…
Transient laser-induced periodic surface structures revealed by time-resolved EUV diffuse scattering
D. Ksenzov, F. Capotondi, A. A. Maznev +12
The formation of permanent laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS) on solid surfaces under impulsive laser irradiation above the damage threshold has been subject of exte…
Effective Theory of Ultrafast Skyrmion Nucleation
Rein Liefferink, Lukas Körber, Kathinka Gerlinger +3
Laser-induced ultrafast skyrmion nucleation has been experimentally demonstrated in several materials. So far, atomistic models have been used to corroborate experimental results.…
Soft-X-ray momentum microscopy of nonlinear magnon interactions below 100-nm wavelength
Steffen Wittrock, Christopher Klose, Salvatore Perna +10
Magnons are quantised collective excitations of long-range ordered spins. At nanometre wavelengths, exchange interactions increasingly govern their dynamics, giving rise to a large…
Laser-driven resonant soft-X-ray scattering for probing picosecond dynamics of nanometre-scale order
Leonid Lunin, Martin Borchert, Niklas Schneider +6
X-ray scattering has been an indispensable tool in advancing our understanding of matter, from the first evidence of the crystal lattice to recent discoveries of nuclei's fastest d…
Sub-wavelength localized all-optical helicity-independent magnetic switching using plasmonic gold nanostructures
Themistoklis Sidiropoulos, Puloma Singh, Tino Noll +8
All-optical helicity-independent switching (AO-HIS) is of interest for ultrafast and energy efficient magnetic switching in future magnetic data storage approaches. Yet, to achieve…
2024 Roadmap on Magnetic Microscopy Techniques and Their Applications in Materials Science
D. V. Christensen, U. Staub, T. R. Devidas +50
Considering the growing interest in magnetic materials for unconventional computing, data storage, and sensor applications, there is active research not only on material synthesis…
Emergent Chaos-Like Dynamics of Spin-Orbit Torque-Driven Magnetic Transitions
Lisa-Marie Kern, Kai Litzius, Victor Deinhart +12
Spin-orbit torques (SOTs) are widely used to control magnetization in nanoscale electric systems and are typically assumed to drive skyrmion nucleation and motion in a deterministi…
Coherent x-ray magnetic imaging with 5 nm resolution
Riccardo Battistelli, Daniel Metternich, Michael Schneider +13
Soft x-ray microscopy plays an important role in modern spintronics. However, the achievable resolution of most x-ray magnetic imaging experiments is above 10 nm, limiting access t…
Three-dimensional coherent diffraction snapshot imaging using extreme ultraviolet radiation from a free electron laser
Danny Fainozzi, Matteo Ippoliti, Fulvio Billè +14
The possibility to obtain a three-dimensional representation of a single object with sub-m resolution is crucial in many fields, from material science to clinical diagnostics. T…
Ultrafast Opto-magnetic Effects in the Extreme Ultraviolet Spectral Range
Martin Hennecke, Clemens von Korff Schmising, Kelvin Yao +20
Coherent light-matter interactions mediated by opto-magnetic phenomena like the inverse Faraday effect (IFE) are expected to provide a non-thermal pathway for ultrafast manipulatio…
A Rate Model of Electron Populations for Non-linear High-Fluence X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Spectra
Robin Y. Engel, Markus Scholz, Jan O. Schunck +1
Absorbing a focused, femtosecond X-ray pulse from a Free-Electron Laser (FEL) can lead to extreme electronic excitations in solids. This excitation drives changes of the electronic…
Robust scenario for the generation of non-equilibrium topological fluctuation states
Kathinka Gerlinger, Rein Liefferink, Michael Schneider +12
The recently discovered topological fluctuation state provides a fascinating new perspective on the ultrafast emergence of topology in condensed matter systems. However, rather lit…
Electron Dynamics at High-Energy Densities in Nickel from Non-linear Resonant X-ray Absorption Spectra
Robin Y. Engel, Oliver Alexander, Kaan Atak +40
The pulse intensity from X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) can create extreme excitation densities in solids, entering the regime of non-linear X-ray-matter interactions. We show L…
Picosecond x-ray magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy at the Fe L-edges with a laser-driven plasma source
Martin Borchert, Dieter Engel, Clemens von Korff Schmising +3
Time-resolved x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) enables a unique spectroscopic view on complex spin and charge dynamics in multi-elemental magnetic materials. So far, its ap…
Pump--probe x-ray microscopy of photo-induced magnetization dynamics at MHz repetition rates
Kathinka Gerlinger, Bastian Pfau, Martin Hennecke +11
We present time-resolved scanning x-ray microscopy measurements with picosecond photo-excitation via a tailored infrared pump laser at a scanning transmission x-ray microscope. Spe…
Tailoring Optical Excitation to Control Magnetic Skyrmion Nucleation
Lisa-Marie Kern, Bastian Pfau, Michael Schneider +12
In ferromagnetic multilayers, a single laser pulse with a fluence above an optical nucleation threshold can create magnetic skyrmions, which are randomly distributed over the area…
Deterministic Generation and Guided Motion of Magnetic Skyrmions by Focused He-Ion Irradiation
L. -M. Kern, B. Pfau, V. Deinhart +17
Magnetic skyrmions are quasiparticles with non-trivial topology, envisioned to play a key role in next-generation data technology while simultaneously attracting fundamental resear…
Ultrafast X-ray imaging of the light-induced phase transition in VO2
Allan S. Johnson, Daniel Pérez-Salinas, Khalid M. Siddiqui +26
Using light to control transient phases in quantum materials is an emerging route to engineer new properties and functionality, with both thermal and non-thermal phases observed ou…
Photon correlation spectroscopy with heterodyne mixing based on soft-x-ray magnetic circular dichroism
Christopher Klose, Felix Büttner, Wen Hu +4
Many magnetic equilibrium states and phase transitions are characterized by fluctuations. Such magnetic fluctuation can in principle be detected with scattering-based x-ray photon…