Rein Liefferink

Abstract Controlling magnetic textures at ever smaller length scales and timescales is of fundamental and technological interest. External stimuli capable of acting at the nanoscale pose a challenge, motivating alternative approaches that exploit the intrinsic inhomogeneity of magnetic textures. Here we use a Pt/Co/Pt ferromagnetic thin film to investigate magnetization reversal with circularly polarized picosecond laser pulses.