{
  "id": "0906.5104",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2009-06-28T20:25:19.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-06-28T20:25:19.000Z",
  "title": "Ultrafast demagnetization of ferromagnetic transition metals: The role of the Coulomb interaction",
  "authors": [
    "Michael Krauss",
    "Tobias Roth",
    "Sabine Alebrand",
    "Daniel Steil",
    "Mirko Cinchetti",
    "Martin Aeschlimann",
    "Hans Christian Schneider"
  ],
  "comment": "6 pages, 3 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mtrl-sci",
    "cond-mat.other"
  ],
  "abstract": "The Elliott-Yafet mechanism is arguably the most promising candidate to explain the ultrafast demagnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic transition metals on timescales on the order of 100 femtoseconds. So far, only electron-phonon scattering has been analyzed as the scattering process needed to account for the demagnetization due to the Elliott-Yafet mechanism. We show for the first time that the electron-electron scattering contribution to the Elliott-Yafet mechanism has the potential to explain time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect measurements on thin magnetic cobalt and nickel films, without reference to a phononic \"spin bath.\"",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2009-06-28T20:25:19.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "75.10.Lp",
      "71.70.Ej",
      "78.47.J-"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "ferromagnetic transition metals",
      "ultrafast demagnetization",
      "coulomb interaction",
      "magneto-optical kerr effect measurements",
      "elliott-yafet mechanism"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180407",
      "journal": "Physical Review B",
      "year": 2009,
      "month": "Nov",
      "volume": 80,
      "number": 18,
      "pages": 180407
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2009PhRvB..80r0407K"
    }
  }
}