In the past 20 years, we have reached a broad understanding of many light-driven
phenomena in nanoscale systems. The temporal dynamics of the excited states are instead …

In the last decade, a new area of research, referred to as femtomagnetism, has developed
within the field of magnetism, which studies the excitation and control of magnetic medium …

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is implemented in an all electron solid-
state code for the case of fully unconstrained noncollinear spins. We use this to study …

This Perspective surveys the state-of-the-art and future prospects of science and technology
employing nanoconfined light (nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics) in combination with …

We present a mechanism by which optically driven chiral phonon modes in rare-earth
trihalides generate giant effective magnetic fields acting on the paramagnetic 4 f spins. With …

The magneto-optical and opto-magnetic effects describe the interaction of light with a
magnetic medium. The most prominent examples are the Faraday and Cotton-Mouton …

We provide a quantum theoretical description of the magnetic polarization induced by
intense circularly polarized light in a material. Such effect—commonly referred to as the …

Recent observations of switching of magnetic domains in ferromagnetic metals by circularly
polarized light, so-called all-optical helicity dependent switching, has renewed interest in the …

The interaction between light and magnetism is considered a promising route to the
development of energy-efficient data storage technologies. To date, however, ultrafast …

Handbook of Magnetic Materials, Volume 26, covers the expansion of magnetism over the
last few decades and its applications in research, notably the magnetism of several classes …