Critical behavior within 20 fs drives the out-of-equilibrium laser-induced magnetic phase transition in nickel

Phoebe Tengdin; Wenjing You; Cong Chen; Xun Shi; Dmitriy Zusin; Yingchao Zhang; Christian Gentry; Adam Blonsky; Mark Keller; Peter M. Oppeneer; Henry C. Kapteyn; Zhensheng Tao; Margaret M. Murnane

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Critical behavior within 20 fs drives the out-of-equilibrium laser-induced magnetic phase transition in nickel

Phoebe Tengdin¹,*,
Wenjing You¹,*,
Cong Chen¹,
Xun Shi¹,†,
Dmitriy Zusin¹,
Yingchao Zhang¹,
Christian Gentry¹,
Adam Blonsky¹,
Mark Keller²,
Peter M. Oppeneer³,
Henry C. Kapteyn¹,
Zhensheng Tao¹,† and
Margaret M. Murnane¹

¹Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
²NIST, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA.
³Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, 75120 Uppsala, Sweden.

↵†Corresponding author. Email: xun.shi{at}colorado.edu (X.S.); zhensheng.tao{at}jila.colorado.edu (Z.T.)

↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Science Advances 02 Mar 2018:
Vol. 4, no. 3, eaap9744
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aap9744

Phoebe Tengdin

Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

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Wenjing You

Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

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Cong Chen

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Xun Shi

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Dmitriy Zusin

Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

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Yingchao Zhang

Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

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Christian Gentry

Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

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Adam Blonsky

Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

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Mark Keller

NIST, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA.

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Peter M. Oppeneer

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, 75120 Uppsala, Sweden.

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Henry C. Kapteyn

Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

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Zhensheng Tao

Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

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Margaret M. Murnane

Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

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