Posted in physics.optics · 2026-01-09 · Peter R. Miedaner, Alexei A. Maznev, Mykola Biednov, Marwan Deb, Carles Serrat, Nadia Berndt, Pietro Carrara, Cristian Soncini, Marta Brioschi, Daniele Ronchetti, Andrei Benediktovitch, Danny Fainozzi, Nupur Khatu, Eugenio Ferrari, Joan Vila-Comamala, Peter Zalden, Wojciech Gawelda, Martin Knoll, Paul Frankenberger, Ludmila Leroy, Talgat Mamyrbayev, Grigory Smolentsev, Simon Gerber, Alessandro Gessini, Filippo Bencivenga, Riccardo Cucini, Giorgio Rossi, Riccardo Mincigrucci, Ettore Paltanin, Majed Chergui, Claudio Masciovecchio, Stefano Bonetti, Yohei Uemura, Xinchao Huang, Han Xu, Frederico Alves Lima, Fernando Ardana-Lamas, Anders Madsen, Renato Torre, Luis Bañares, Jakub Szlachetko, Wojciech Blachucki, Matias Bargheer, Thomas Feurer, Robin Y. Engel, Martin Beye, Christian David, Urs Staub, Andrea Cannizzo, Cristopher Milne, Keith A. Nelson, Cristian Svetina
Recent progress in ultrafast x-ray sources helped establish x-rays as an important tool for probing lattice and magnetic dynamics initiated by femtosecond optical pulses. Here, we explore the potential of ultrashort hard x-ray pulses for driving magnetic dynamics. We use a transient grating technique in which a spatially periodic...