Time resolved magnetic ordering and photo-induced gyrotropy at room temperature in CdMgTe-CdMnTe semiconductor micro-cavities

Using a picosecond pump and probe time-resolved technique we evidence a single pump pulse photo-induced magnetic ordering in a Mn-doped semiconductor magneto-photonic microcavity operating in the strong coupling regime at room temperature. This nanosecond duration magnetization is attributed to a magnetic ordering of the Mn-impurities mediated through photo-generated holes and enhanced through the confinement. It is distinct from the preceding short lived photo-induced spin orientation of carriers also evidenced by our technique for circularly polarized pump beams. The photo-generated magnetic flux density amounts to a 1 kG for beam fluences of few tens μJ cm⁻² and effective Mn concentrations of 5 nm⁻³; large photo-induced magneto-optic Kerr rotations are also evidenced.     

GdFeCo/AlN/TbFeCo薄膜的变温磁化性能研究

用磁控溅射法制备了GdFeCo/AlN/TbFeCo静磁耦合多层薄膜。振动样品磁强计和克尔磁滞回线测试装置的测试结果表明 :2 5℃不加外磁场时GdFeCo/AlN/TbFeCo静磁耦合多层薄膜读出层 (GdFeCo)的极向克尔角为零 ,读出层呈平面磁化 ;12 5℃不加外场时读出层的克尔角最大 (0 .5 4°) ,读出层的磁化方向为垂直磁化 ;随着温度增高 ,读出层由平面磁化转变为垂直磁化 ,在 75℃到 12 5℃温度范围内读出层磁化方向很快从平面磁化转变为垂直磁化。对磁化过程的机理研究表明 :饱和磁化强度和有效各向异性常量影响读出层磁化方向的转变过程 ,但主要受读出层饱和磁化强度的影响 ;在较高温度时读出层的磁化强度较小 ,退磁场能较小 ,在静磁耦合作用下 ,使GdFeCo读出层的磁化方向发生转变。制备的GdFeCo/AlN/TbFeCo静磁耦合多层薄膜适合作CAD MSR记录介质     

Swift ion irradiations of Fe/Fe/Si trilayers

We report here on changes in magnetism and microstructure when implanting, at 92 or 300 K, up to 5 × 10¹⁵ Au²⁶⁺-ions cm⁻² of 350 MeV into ^natFe(45 nm)/⁵⁷Fe(20 nm)/Si trilayers. This choice of ions and energy allowed to test the irradiation effects in the regime of pure electronic stopping. The samples were analysed before and after irradiation by Rutherford back-scattering spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, conversion electron Mössbauer spectroscopy, and magneto-optical Kerr effect. Up to 1 × 10¹⁵ ions cm⁻², there was interface broadening at a mixing rate of Δσ²/Φ = 55(5) nm⁴, followed by full Fe-Si inter-diffusion. The Mössbauer spectra revealed fractions of α-Fe and amorphous ferromagnetic and paramagnetic iron silicides, but no crystalline Fe-Si phase. The magnetic remanence in the as-deposited Fe-layer showed small components of uniaxial and four-fold magnetization. For increasing ion fluence, the component with four-fold symmetry grew at the expense of the uniaxial component. For the highest fluences, an isotropic magnetization was found.     

Magnetization curves and domain structures of a 38.7% NiFe (110) single crystal disk

Magnetization curves of the volume of a (011) oriented 38.7% Ni?Fe disk with magnetic fields applied in [100], [011] and [111] directions are compared with the corresponding domain structure of the surface observed by means of the magneto-optical Kerr effect. The intensity reflected from the surface yielded Kerr magnetization curves, which give information about the magnetization of the surface and allow to distinguish between boundary displacements and magnetization rotation. Besides some similarities to SiFe differences were found which are mainly due to the low anisotropy energy. The magnetization of the surface is different from that of the volume.     

铁磁薄膜中圆偏振光感应的瞬态磁光Kerr峰的物理起源

使用飞秒时间分辨抽运-探测磁光Kerr光谱技术,实验研究了圆偏振光抽运面内磁化FePt和垂直磁化GdFeCo薄膜的磁化演化动力学,发现在时间延迟零点处均出现瞬态Kerr峰.分析了此Kerr峰的起源,指出此瞬态Kerr峰与铁磁性无关,可能起源于自由电子的顺磁磁化,而顺磁磁化的外磁场来自圆偏振抽运光的逆Faraday效应.基于顺磁磁化模型的计算结果支持此观点.基于此观点,逆Faraday效应感应的磁场脉冲宽度应该与激光脉冲宽度一致.     

Extremal Kerr black hole/CFT correspondence in the five-dimensional Gödel universe

We extend the method of Kerr/CFT correspondence recently proposed in arXiv:0809.4266 [hep-th] to the extremal (charged) Kerr black hole embedded in the five-dimensional Gödel universe. With the aid of the central charges in the Virasoro algebra and the Frolov–Thorne temperatures, together with the use of the Cardy formula, we have obtained the microscopic entropies that precisely agree with the ones macroscopically calculated by Bekenstein–Hawking area law.     

Spontaneous symmetry breaking and response functions

We study the quantum phase transition occurring in an infinite homogeneous system of spin 1/2 fermions in a non-relativistic context. As an example we consider neutrons interacting through a simple spin-spin Heisenberg force. The two critical values of the coupling strength—signaling the onset into the system of a finite magnetization and of the total magnetization, respectively—are found and their dependence upon the range of the interaction is explored. The spin response function of the system in the region where the spin-rotational symmetry is spontaneously broken is also studied. For a ferromagnetic interaction the spin response along the direction of the spontaneous magnetization occurs in the particle-hole continuum and displays, for not too large momentum transfers, two distinct peaks. The response along the direction orthogonal to the spontaneous magnetization displays instead, beyond a softened and depleted particle-hole continuum, a collective mode to be identified with a Goldstone boson of type II. Notably, the random phase approximation on a Hartree-Fock basis accounts for it, in particular for its quadratic—close to the origin—dispersion relation. It is shown that the Goldstone boson contributes to the saturation of the energy-weighted sum rule for ≈25% when the system becomes fully magnetized (that is in correspondence of the upper critical value of the interaction strength) and continues to grow as the interaction strength increases.     

Magnetism of Fe clusters formed by buffer-layer assisted growth on Pt(997)

The growth and magnetism of nanometer size Fe clusters on stepped Pt surfaces is investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and magneto-optical Kerr effect measurements (MOKE). The clusters are formed on xenon buffer layers of varying thickness and then brought into contact with the substrate by thermal desorption of the Xe. The cluster size is controlled by the thickness of the Xe layer. It is found that clusters of diameter smaller than the Pt terrace width of 2 nm are aligned along the step edges of the Pt(997), thus forming linear cluster chains. In this arrangement, the clusters are ferromagnetic with an easy axis in the direction along the surface normal. If the cluster diameter is larger than the terrace width then the alignment along the step edges is not observed and rather large agglomerates are found which are randomly distributed over the surface. Despite their increased volume, such agglomerates are superparamagnetic with in-plane easy magnetization axis. The enhanced magnetic anisotropy energy in the smallest clusters is originating from hybridization effects at the Fe-Pt interface.     

Investigation of the spatial coherence of a laser beam by a laser-induced grating method

The influence of ion implantation on the magnetization of a model bubble system (La, Ga: YIG) is studied by means of Conversion Electron Mössbauer Spectroscopy (CEMS). It is found that the average magnetization decreases considerably with increasing depth, but after reaching a minimum returns to the bulk value. This observation is in accord with recent FMR and x-ray diffraction experiments.     

Abnormal reduction of coercivity on magnetic cobalt–platinum alloy films

Ultrathin Co–Pt alloy films as substrate were studied by the surface magneto-optical Kerr effect. As the growth of Ni, the films show uniquely high polar Kerr responses without any in-plane signals. The coercivity decreased until the thickness of Ni film was higher than 5 ML. A new surface structure was discovered at 7–10 ML Ni/Co–Pt films by the low-energy electron diffraction. Interestingly, polar Kerr signal and coercivity of the 10 ML Ni/Co–Pt(1 1 1) template film reduced rapidly as Co films were further deposited onto only about 1–2 ML. Then the films show a canted magnetization with a rollback hysteresis in the polar configuration during the growth of Co. Coercivity of the 7 ML Co/Ni/Co–Pt film was found unusually down to almost 100 Oe.The corresponding magic number at around 7 ML of Co in the abnormal reduction of coercivity may be attributed to the cluster formations of Co.     

Magneto-optical properties of metallic ferromagnetic materials

The authors have studied the magneto-optical Kerr rotation in more than 200 metallic systems comprising alloys as well as intermetallic compounds of 3d transition metals. For all these materials the crystal structure, the lattice constants, the room temperature magnetization and the room temperature Kerr rotation at two different wavelengths are specified. For several series of ternary compounds, comprising Heusler alloys Ni₂ In-type compounds and Cr₂₃C₆ type compounds, we determined the saturation moment at 4.2 K. For a number of representative alloys or compounds a study was also made of the wavelength dependence of the complex polar Kerr effect. The values of the Kerr rotation obtained at 633 nm were compared with the corresponding values of the measured magnetization. Systematic trends were observed and have been used to classify metallic systems into systems where the Kerr rotation will not reach values much in excess of 1° and systems where higher values are likely to be found.     

Ab initio investigation of microscopic enhancement factors in tuning the magneto-optical Kerr effect

The microscopic quantities that determine the magnitude and frequency position of peaks in the Kerr rotation spectrum are studied on the basis of first-principles band-structure theory. The transition metals Fe, Co and Ni serve as model systems. The magnitude of the magnetooptical Kerr effec (MOKE) is basically brought about by the spin-orbit (SO) coupling strength and it is shown that the Kerr rotation scales linearly with the SO-coupling. Exchange splitting (or magnetization) is found to influence the Kerr effect in a rather complicated way: enlarging the magnetization can both enhance and diminish spectral peaks. A strong effect is found for the dependence of the position of spectral peaks on the lattice spacing: a 3 to 6% increase in lattice parameters can lead to shifts of about 1 eV of the main MOKE peak.     

Exploring magnetic properties of ultrathin epitaxial magnetic structures using magneto-optical techniques

We describe magneto-optic Kerr effect studies of ultrathin Fe and Ni films on single crystal surfaces of Ag and Cu. Monolayer Fe films on Ag(100) exhibit the theoretically predicted spin-orbit anisotropy, but also yield some interesting discrepancies between behavior predicted by Kerr effect and by spin-polarized photoemission experiments. Layer-dependent studies of the magnetic moment of Ni on Ag(111) and Ag(100) suggest sp-d hybridization effects quench the first layer magnetic moment on Ag(111) but not on Ag(100). Temperature dependent studies of thin film magnetization obtained from Kerr effect measurements yield thickness dependent Curie temperatures, and critical exponents for several thin film systems.     

Structure and property changes and femtosecond laser-induced magnetization dynamics of two-year-old high coercive TbFeCo films

An uncoated TbFeCo film on glass substrate exposed to dry air for 2 years is studied using magneto-optical polar Kerr spectroscopy and vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM). The out-of-plane hysteresis loop by VSM is found to become slanted and meanwhile, an in-plane loop is also observable. The Kerr loop measured from the exposed surface is also slanted compared to that measured from the substrate-contacted surface, which indicates that the exposed surface is oxidized. So a bilayer structure of the film is proposed. When a pump laser is switched on, the Kerr loops measured from both surfaces at the delay time of −5 ps become anomalous, showing the occurrence of magnetization reversal across magnetization compensation temperature. Unlike that measured from the substrate-contacted surface, femtosecond laser-induced magnetization dynamics measured from the exposed surface does not show magnetization reversal crossing zero magnetization. This can be explained by the bilayer structure as the compensation effect of demagnetization recovery of the oxidized layer on magnetization reversal of perpendicularly anisotropic TbFeCo layer across magnetization compensation temperature. Above experimental results show that the uncoated TbFeCo film cannot resist oxidation in dry air at room temperature for 2 years while the SiO₂-coated surface can do so for over 2 years.     

Magnetic Behaviour and Heating Effect of Fe3O4 Ferrofluids Composed of Monodisperse Nanoparticles

Fe3O4 ferrofluids containing monodisperse Fe3O4 nanoparticles with different diameters of 8, 12, 16 and 18nm are prepared by using high-temperature solution phase reaction. The particles have single crystal structures with narrow size distributions. At room temperature, the 8-nm ferrofluid shows superparamagnetic behaviour, whereas the others display hysteresis properties and the coercivity increases with the increasing particle size. The spin glass-like behaviour and cusps near 190K are observed on all ferrofluids according to the temperature variation of field-cooled （FC） and zero-field-cooled （ZFC） magnetization measurements. The cusps are found to be associated with the freezing point of the solvent. As a comparison, the ferrofluids are dried and the FC and ZFC magnetization curves of powdery samples are also investigated. It is found that the blocking temperatures for the powdery samples are higher than those for their corresponding ferrofluids. Moreover, the size dependent heating effect of the ferrofluids is also investigated in ac magnetic field with a frequency of 55 kHz and amplitude of 200 Oe.     

Evidence for noncollinearity between surface and bulk magnetization in ultrathin Co films

The magnetization reversal of ultrathin Co films on Cu(001) has been investigated by grazing ion scattering and magneto-optical Kerr effect. Differences in the behavior of surface and bulk magnetization are found and attributed to the reduced coordination and site symmetry at the surface. The reversal behavior of the surface magnetization depends on the chemical surface composition. For pure Co films, the reversal of the bulk magnetization is preceded by a complete reversal of the surface magnetization. A particular magnetic state of the surface is suggested as a precursor for magnetization reversal.     

SHG studies of magnetization effects on polycrystalline nickel surfaces

The influence of surface magnetization of polycrystalline nickel samples on Second-Harmonic Generation (SHG) in reflection was investigated using pleosecond laser pulses of 600 nm. The effect was measured for different polarization combinations with samples under normal conditions. For the azimuthal rotation of the magnetization anisotropies of (13±2)% and (19±3)% were observed for sP and pP polarization, respectively. The Kerr angle observed by. SHG was found to be an order of magnitude larger (4±1)^o than the linear Kerr angle. A hysteresis curve was recorded for pP polarization. No influence of the oxide layer was noticed.Paper presented at the 129th WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Surface studies by Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopies, Kassel Germany, May 30 to June 1, 1994     

Thermodynamics of Phase Transitions of a Kerr Nonlinear Blackbody

We study the thermodynamics of phase transitions of a blackbody whose interior is filled by a Kerr nonlinear crystal. There is a transition temperature To, above which the Kerr nonlinear blackbody is in the normal thermal radiation state, and below which it is in the squeezed thermal radiation state. At To, the Gibbs free energy of the two phases is continuous but the entropy density of the two phases is discontinuous. Hence, there is a jump in the entropy density and this leads to a latent heat density. The photon system undergoes a first-order phase transition from the normal to the squeezed thermal radiation state.     

Breakdown of an intermediate plateau in the magnetization process of anisotropic spin-1 Heisenberg dimer: Theory vs. experiment

The magnetization process of the spin-1 Heisenberg dimer model with the uniaxial or biaxial single-ion anisotropy is particularly investigated in connection with recent experimental high-field measurements performed on the single-crystal sample of the homodinuclear nickel(II) compound [Ni₂(Medpt)₂(μ-ox)(H₂O)₂](ClO₄)₂·2H₂O (Medpt=methyl-bis(3-aminopropyl)amine). The results obtained from the exact numerical diagonalization indicate a striking magnetization process with a marked spatial dependence on the applied magnetic field for arbitrary but finite single-ion anisotropy. It is demonstrated that the field range, which corresponds to an intermediate magnetization plateau emerging at a half of the saturation magnetization, basically depends on a single-ion anisotropy strength as well as a spatial orientation of the applied field. The breakdown of the intermediate magnetization plateau is discussed at length in relation to the single-ion anisotropy strength.