Exchange-Striction Driven Ultrafast Nonthermal Lattice Dynamics in NiO

Molecular dynamics studies of ultrafast laser-induced nonthermal melting

Molecular Dynamics (MD) is employed to investigate nonthermal melting triggered by coherent phonon excitation in bismuth telluride, which has Peierls distortion in the lattice structure. Results showed that the structural distortion caused by coherent phonons appears as early as 80 fs, while it takes several picoseconds for the whole phononexcited area to evolve into a liquid state. It was also...

THz-Driven Ultrafast Spin-Lattice Scattering in Amorphous Metallic Ferromagnets.

We use single-cycle THz fields and the femtosecond magneto-optical Kerr effect to, respectively, excite and probe the magnetization dynamics in two thin-film ferromagnets with different lattice structures: crystalline Fe and amorphous CoFeB. We observe Landau-Lifshitz-torque magnetization dynamics of comparable magnitude in both systems, but only the amorphous sample shows ultrafast demagnetiza...

Investment Driven Exchange Rate Dynamics

Macroeconomic exchange rate research has primarily been focused on the consumption correlation puzzle identi ed by Backus and Smith (1993). This research has largely ignored the dynamic correlations present between exchange rates and other macro variables such as output, and investment. In this paper I build evidence that a relationship may exist between gross national investment and exchange r...

Ultrafast zone-center coherent lattice dynamics in ferroelectric lithium tantalate.

Femtosecond time-resolved pump-probe experiments were carried out to study ultrafast lattice dynamics of ferroelectric lithium tantalate. Both the fully symmetric (A1 mode) and doubly degenerate (E mode) coherent phonons at the center of the Brillouin zone were excited via impulsive stimulated Raman scattering, as confirmed by the excitation intensity dependence.

Influence of laser pulse shaping on the ultrafast dynamics in antiferromagnetic NiO