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The technological demand to bump the Gigahertz switching speed-limit of today’s magnetic memory and logic devices into the Terahertz regime underlies the entire field of spin-electronics and integrated multi-functional nano-devices. In this talk, I show how all-optical switching based on the ultrafast quantum-mechanical manipulation of spins could meet this challenge.
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The authors would like to thank the THALES program NANOPHOS for financial support.
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Perakis, I.E. (2015). Femtosecond Laser Pulses Switch Magnetic States via Strongly-Correlated Spin-Charge Quantum Excitations. In: Bigot, JY., Hübner, W., Rasing, T., Chantrell, R. (eds) Ultrafast Magnetism I. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 159. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07743-7_1
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