Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267402 (2005) [4 pages]Femtosecond Dynamics in Ferromagnetic Metals Investigated with Soft X-Ray Resonant EmissionSee Also: Erratum Received 18 January 2005; published 19 December 2005 We present measurements of the magnetic circular dichroism in x-ray resonant emission in the perpendicular geometry (circularly polarized x rays at normal incidence to the magnetization) for the L2,3 absorption region in Fe, Co, and Ni metal. The results show that spin-dependent screening of the core hole takes place within the scattering time scale, which is supported by the absence of the effect in ionic systems. This allows an assessment of the time scale for the screening process (up to a few femtoseconds). The process is almost complete within the scattering time for Fe and Co, but this is not the case for the narrow band metal Ni which shows a much slower dynamics. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.267402
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.267402
PACS:
78.70.En, 75.50.−y, 78.70.Ck, 78.70.Dm
See AlsoErratum: L. Braicovich, G. Ghiringhelli, A. Tagliaferri, G. van der Laan, E. Annese, and N. B. Brookes, Erratum: Femtosecond Dynamics in Ferromagnetic Metals Investigated with Soft X-Ray Resonant Emission [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267402 (2005)], Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 159902 (2007). |
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