Tobias Lojewski, Mohamed F. Elhanoty, Loïc Le Guyader, et al. The interplay of local electron correlations and ultrafast spin dynamics in fcc Ni[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2023, 11(8): 655-661.
DOI:
Tobias Lojewski, Mohamed F. Elhanoty, Loïc Le Guyader, et al. The interplay of local electron correlations and ultrafast spin dynamics in fcc Ni[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2023, 11(8): 655-661.DOI: 10.1080/21663831.2023.2210606.
The interplay of local electron correlations and ultrafast spin dynamics in fcc Ni
The complex electronic structure of metallic ferromagnets is determined by a balance between exchange interaction
electron hopping leading to band formation
and local Coulomb repulsion. By combining high energy and temporal resolution in femtosecond time-resolved
X
-ray absorption spectroscopy with
ab initio
time-dependent density functional theory we analyze the electronic structure in fcc Ni on the time scale of these interactions in a pump-probe experiment. We distinguish transient broadening and energy shifts in the absorption spectra
which we demonstrate to be captured by electron repopulation respectively correlation-induced modifications of the electronic structure
requiring to take the local Coulomb interaction into account.