On the way to the fastest possible computing speed

Research report (imported) 2018 - Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics

Authors
P. Elliott, E. K. U. Gross
Departments
Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Halle (Saale)

Summary
The ability to alter the magnetic configuration of a material on femtosecond timescales would allow computers to operate a thousand to a million times faster. In this work we report on a new quantum-mechanical phenomenon predicted by our simulations, which we named OISTR. The OISTR mechanism uses ultrastrong, ultrashort, optical laser pulses to locally magnetize and de- magnetize particular atoms in just a few femtoseconds. These predictions have since been verified by experiments.

 

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