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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…
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…
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…
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…
Megahertz-rate Ultrafast X-ray Scattering and Holographic Imaging at the European XFEL
Nanna Zhou Hagström, Michael Schneider, Nico Kerber +97
The advent of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) has revolutionized fundamental science, from atomic to condensed matter physics, from chemistry to biology, giving researchers acce…
Temperature dependence of spin pinning and spin-wave dispersion in nanoscopic ferromagnetic waveguides
Björn Heinz, Qi Wang, Roman Verba +10
The field of magnonics attracts significant attention due to the possibility of utilizing information coded into the spin-wave phase or amplitude to perform computation operations…
In-situ single-shot diffractive fluence mapping for X-ray free-electron laser pulses
Michael Schneider, Christian M. Günther, Bastian Pfau +7
Free-electron lasers (FEL) in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) and X-ray regime opened up the possibility for experiments at high power densities, in particular allowing for fluence-d…
Field-free deterministic ultra fast creation of skyrmions by spin orbit torques
Felix Büttner, Ivan Lemesh, Michael Schneider +10
Magnetic skyrmions are currently the most promising option to realize current-driven magnetic shift registers. A variety of concepts to create skyrmions were proposed and demonstra…
Nanoscale spectroscopic imaging of phase separation in a correlated material by resonant X-ray holography
Luciana Vidas, Christian M. Günther, Timothy A. Miller +8
Nanoscale phase coexistence and inhomogeneity are ubiquitous in correlated electron materials, existing in doped Mott insulators, manganites, and high-temperature superconductors.…
Irreversible transformation of ferromagnetic ordered stripe domains in single-shot IR pump - resonant X-ray scattering probe experiments
Nicolas Bergeard, Stefan Schaffert, Víctor López-Flores +21
The evolution of a magnetic domain structure upon excitation by an intense, femtosecond Infra-Red (IR) laser pulse has been investigated using single-shot based time-resolved reson…