Ultrafast Science, Volume. 4, Issue 1, 0064(2024)

Efficient Optical Control of Magnon Dynamics in van der Waals Ferromagnets

Yu Gong1、*, Zhonghua Yang2,3, Alem Teklu1, Ti Xie4, Noah Kern1, Andrew F. May5, Michael McGuire5, Christian Brennan1, Er-Jia Guo6, Narayanan Kuthirummal1, John Cetin1, Qian Zhang1, Ming Hu2, and Cheng Gong4
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424, USA.
  • 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
  • 3College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang 110870, China.
  • 4Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Quantum Technology Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
  • 5Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA.
  • 6Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
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    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Oct. 24, 2023

    Accepted: May. 8, 2024

    Published Online: Dec. 13, 2024

    The Author Email: Gong Yu (gongy@cofc.edu)

    DOI:10.34133/ultrafastscience.0064

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