Newswise — WASHINGTON, D.C., March 4, 2019 — Magnetic supplies have a worldwide market share of some $50 billion per 12 months. A brand new frontier within the research of those supplies, femtomagnetism, may result in ultrafast magnetic storage gadgets that may remodel data processing applied sciences with storage gadgets a number of orders of magnitude quicker.
Now, researchers report a tabletop methodology to characterize such a quicker magnetic storage utilizing high-harmonic era of laser mild in iron skinny movies, which the researchers liken to the era of sound waves by hanging keys on a piano.
They current their work this week on the 2019 American Bodily Society March Assembly in Boston, and one of many researchers will even take part in a press convention describing the work. Data for logging on to observe and ask questions remotely is included on the finish of this information launch.
In case you play a piano softly, the piano hammer hits a string producing a sound with a specific basic frequency, lead researcher, Guoping Zhang, defined, however for those who hit more durable, tone high quality adjustments from bass to treble. “Within the bass area, there are 50 to 60 occasions the elemental frequency or 50 to 60 harmonics,” he mentioned. “In our work, we primarily do the identical factor with mild, changing a single frequency to many, many multiples of the sunshine frequency, or excessive harmonics.”
“There are many nonmagnetic supplies that may produce excessive harmonics,” mentioned Zhang, who’s a professor of physics at Indiana State College. “The importance of our work is to increase the idea of excessive harmonics into technologically essential magnetic supplies.”
The tactic measures how electrons transfer, or spin, underneath the affect of a robust laser pulse on a quadrillionth-of-a-second time scale. There are numerous methods to measure magnetic properties of a pattern, Zhang mentioned, however the majority lack the aptitude to resolve the quantum mechanical spins that are on the heart of spintronics.
“The novelty of our methodology, which was by no means identified earlier than, is that we are able to immediately detect the spin sign,” Zhang mentioned. “This sign is essential and is on the core of spin-based know-how.”
What’s extra, Zhang mentioned, “researchers typically depend on very giant services to carry out mandatory measurements. Excessive harmonic era from Fe skinny movies is a tabletop experiment; thus it’s extra accessible to many teams.”
“Our work was impressed by a number of pioneering works earlier than us,” Zhang mentioned. The primary is femtomagnetism the place an ultrafast laser pulse, as a substitute of a magnetic discipline, can be utilized to demagnetize a pattern. The second is excessive harmonic era analysis in different supplies.
“We mixed these two fields collectively,” Zhang mentioned. “Sooner or later we plan to look at way more difficult however technologically essential supplies with difficult spin textures troublesome to analyze with different strategies.”
Zhang says the group’s work has the identical imaginative and prescient as quantum know-how in its use of electron spin to hold data, however is extra sensible as a result of it originates from magnetic storage concepts. “Our current work will present a solution to characterize these quantum bits,” he mentioned.
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The 2019 APS March Assembly presentation “Excessive harmonic era in ferromagnetic skinny movies as a device to probe spin and cost dynamics,” by Guoping Zhang, Mingsu Si, Mitsuko Murakami, Yihua Bai and Thomas F. George, will happen Monday, March 4, at 3:30 p.m. in room 209 of the Boston Conference and Exhibition Middle. ABSTRACT: http://conferences.aps.org/Assembly/MAR19/Session/C41.4
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