Ultrafast non-thermal control of magnetization by instantaneous photomagnetic pulses

By Alexey V. Kimel, A. Kirilyuk, P. Usachev, R. Pisarev, A. Balbashov, Theo Rasing. Nature, 2005

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Light control with Weyl semimetals (2022, methodology): “The laser-induced magnetization can be used for ultrafast control of magnetic devices [232, 233].”
Electrodynamics of correlated electron materials (2011, background): “Other experiments on antiferromagnetic orthoferrites and garnets have demonstrated optical control of the magnetization where circularly polarized femtosecond pulses induce coherent magnon generation through the inverse Faraday effect (Kimel et al., 2007, 2005).”
Coherent ultrafast magnetism induced by femtosecond laser pulses (2009, background): “Such an effect is indeed important in transparent media such as garnets pumped either by right or left circular polarization”
Active magneto-plasmonics in hybrid metal–ferromagnet structures (2010, methodology): “The ultimate speed limits of this technique could be explored by applying currents driven with intense picosecond terahertz pulses and using ultrafast coherent control of magnetization by femtosecond laser”
Ultrafast heating as a sufficient stimulus for magnetization reversal in a ferrimagnet (2012, background): “The observed magnetization switching that occurs independently of the initial state of the magnetization and light polarization eliminates an explanation via the involvement of the time-non-invariant and light-induced effective field H IFE ~ E×E * , which results from the inverse Faraday effec”