{"id":175897,"date":"2023-11-12T14:23:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T20:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/high-harmonic-probes-to-unravel-the-secrets-of-spin"},"modified":"2023-11-12T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T20:23:24","slug":"high-harmonic-probes-to-unravel-the-secrets-of-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/high-harmonic-probes-to-unravel-the-secrets-of-spin","title":{"rendered":"High-harmonic probes to unravel the secrets of spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-harmonic-probes-to-unravel-the-secrets-of-spin2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More sophisticated manipulation of complicated materials and their spin states at short time scales will be needed to create the next generation of spintronic devices. But, a thorough understanding of the fundamental physics underpinning nanoscale spin manipulation is necessary to fully utilize these powers for more energy-efficient nanotechnologies.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/university\/jila\/\">JILA<\/a> team and colleagues from institutions in Sweden, Greece, and Germany investigated the spin dynamics within a unique substance known as a Heusler compound\u2014a combination of metals that exhibits properties similar to those of a single magnetic material. In their investigation, the scientists used a cobalt, manganese, and gallium combination that acted as an insulator for electrons with downwardly oriented spins and a conductor for those with upwardly aligned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/tag\/spins\/\">spins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists used extreme ultraviolet high-harmonic generation (EUV HHG) light as a probe to track the re-orientations of the spins inside the compound after exciting it with a femtosecond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/tag\/laser\/\">laser<\/a>. Tuning the color of the EUV HHG probe light is the key to accurately interpreting the spin re-orientations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More sophisticated manipulation of complicated materials and their spin states at short time scales will be needed to create the next generation of spintronic devices. But, a thorough understanding of the fundamental physics underpinning nanoscale spin manipulation is necessary to fully utilize these powers for more energy-efficient nanotechnologies. The JILA team and colleagues from institutions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}