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Alexey Melnikov1, Ilya Razdolski, Tim O Wehling, Evangelos Th Papaioannou, Vladimir Roddatis, Paul Fumagalli, Oleg Aktsipetrov, Alexander I Lichtenstein, Uwe Bovensiepen.
Abstract
Hot carrier-induced spin dynamics is analyzed in epitaxial Au/Fe/MgO(001) by a time domain approach. We excite a spin current pulse in Fe by 35 fs laser pulses. The transient spin polarization, which is probed at the Au surface by optical second harmonic generation, changes its sign after a few hundred femtoseconds. This is explained by a competition of ballistic and diffusive propagation considering energy-dependent hot carrier relaxation rates. In addition, we observe the decay of the spin polarization within 1 ps, which is associated with the hot carrier spin relaxation time in Au.Entities:
Year: 2011 PMID: 21902412 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.076601
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161