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A new method is proposed to study the ultrafast spin change in the crystal-momentum space. Our first-principles results reveal the hot spin spots in the first Brillouin zone of bcc Fe. This can be tested experimentally.
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This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China under No. 2012CB933101 (DSX) and the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-FG0206ER46304 (GPZ).
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Si, M.S., Li, J.Y., Xue, D.S., Zhang, G.P. (2015). Probing Ultrafast Spin Moment Change of Bcc Iron in Crystal-Momentum Space: A Proposal. 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_16
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