Hermann Dürr - Controlling spins in space and time
Hamburg Photon Science Colloquium
- Date: Dec 9, 2016
- Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Hermann Dürr
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, CA, USA / University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Location: CFEL (Bldg. 99)
- Room: Seminar Room I-III, EG.076-080
- Host: CFEL, CUI, DESY, European XFEL, HZG, MPSD, SFB 925, UHH
Magnetism is a quantum effect that has fascinated mankind for millennia and also led to many modern-day applications, very prominently in information processing and storage. Now available polarized soft X-ray pulses from X-FELs with sub-100 fs duration allow observing magnetic interactions at work in their natural length and timescales. I will show how the challenges for performing time-resolved XMCD at the Linac Coherent Light Source have recently been overcome and give an overview how such studies help to understand the fundamental speed limits for nanoscale spin motion.