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A double polarization and temperature modulation configuration was applied to measure the magnetization and magnetic entropy dynamics in ultrafast demagnetization. Two magnetic properties, obtained by subtracting measurements made at opposite fields, have the same onset at small delays and different relaxations at large delays. The different dynamics suggests that spin relaxation in ultrafast demagnetization is a combination of two processes.
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A delay modulator, made of glass plates rotating in a pump beam, is applied to measure time-resolved rates of transient processes in a pump-probe experimental setup. Glass plates modulate both delay and beam power. The contribution from the power modulation is subtracted by using a scaled-down measurement made with metal chopper blades. Delay modulation results obtained with this procedure are consistent with the derivative in delay of the usual power modulation and can show a larger signal to noise ratio.
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Time-resolved pump-probe measurements were made at variable heat accumulation in Co/Pd superlattices. Heat accumulation increases the baseline temperature and decreases the equilibrium magnetization. Transient ultrafast demagnetization first develops with higher fluence in parallel with strong equilibrium thermal spin fluctuations. The ultrafast demagnetization is then gradually removed as the equilibrium temperature approaches the Curie temperature. The transient magnetization time-dependence is well fit with the spin-flip scattering model.
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A model of demagnetizing fields and micromagnetic simulations are applied to examine the evolution of a demagnetized cylinder. In addition to three expected final magnetic structures, a fourth switched state is obtained over a range of magnetic energy densities. The switched state is absent when demagnetizing fields are neglected. The connection to all-optical switching of materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy is discussed.
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All-optical switching by domain wall motion has been obtained in Co/Pd superlattices with a TiS oscillator. Heat accumulation is part of the switching process for our experimental conditions. Numerical calculations point to a connection between domain wall motion and in-plane heat diffusion.
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Resonant soft x-ray scattering measurements at the O K edge on Sr2CuO4-ν/La2NiO4+δ (SCO/LNO) complex oxide superlattices show resonances for holes in the two constituent layers, in a sequence of energy levels. The observation of well defined resonances, on a superlattice with layers one unit cell thick, indicates that the resonance energy is largely unaffected by atoms outside a cluster extending half a unit cell along the c axis, consistent with calculations for bulk materials. Comparison to measurements on related superlattices confirms that the order of resonances at the O K edge reflects the order of hole ground-state energies in the heterostructure buried layers. For the SCO/LNO superlattices, the measurements show that the ground-state energies remain different in very thin SCO and LNO layers, which is a contributing factor when considering electronic reconstruction at interfaces, in addition to the areal density of ionic charges in the atomic planes. Different hole energy levels in the SCO/LNO superlattice also imply that holes do not spread into SCO from LNO layers.
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Copper/chemistry , Lanthanum/chemistry , Models, Chemical , Nickel/chemistry , Oxides/chemistry , Strontium/chemistry , X-Ray DiffractionABSTRACT
Resonant soft x-ray scattering on complex oxide superlattices shows very large variations in the superlattice reflection position and intensity near La M5,4 edges. Resonant dispersion of the La x-ray form factor describes the observations well. We determine the average density of resonant La atoms and the thickness of superlattice layers.
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We investigated the orbital and antiferromagnetic ordering behaviors of the half-doped bilayer manganite La(2-2x)Sr(1+2x)Mn2O7 (x ≃ 0.5) by using Mn L(2,3)-edge resonant soft x-ray scattering. Resonant soft x-ray scattering reveals the CE-type orbital order below T(oo) ≃ 220 K, which shows partial melting behavior below T(m) ≃ 165 K. We also found coexistence CE- and A-type antiferromagnetic orders. Both orders involve the CE-type orbital order with nearly the same orbital character and are coupled with each other. These results manifest that the ground state with the CE-type antiferromagnetic order is easily susceptible to destabilization into the A-type one even with a small fluctuation of the doping level, as suggested by the extremely narrow magnetic phase boundaries at x ≃ 0.5±0.005.
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We use resonant soft x-ray scattering (RSXS) to quantify the hole distribution in a superlattice of insulating La2CuO4 (LCO) and overdoped La2-xSrxCuO4 (LSCO). Despite its nonsuperconducting constituents, this structure is superconducting with T_{c}=38 K. We found that the conducting holes redistribute electronically from LSCO to the LCO layers. The LCO layers were found to be optimally doped, suggesting they are the main drivers of superconductivity. Our results demonstrate the utility of RSXS for separating electronic from structural effects at oxide interfaces.
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We used resonant soft x-ray scattering to study the chain ordering in Sr14Cu24O41 (SCO). We observed, for the first time, both the chain and ladder orders in SCO with the same probe. We found that the chain modulation in SCO is incommensurate with wave vector L_(c)=0.318, is strongly temperature (T) dependent, and is accompanied by a substantial hole modulation. By contrast, the chain modulation in a hole-depleted control sample La6Ca8Cu24O41 was commensurate (L_(c)=0.3), T independent, and purely structural. We conclude that the chain charge order in SCO is a 4k_(F) charge density wave stabilized by the misfit strain between the ladder and chain substructures.
