The ultrafast enhancement of the exchange interaction between two spins in an antiferromagnetic insulator can now be detected, thanks to an all-optical pump–probe method based on stimulated two-magnon excitation.
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Cinchetti, M. Between two spins. Nature Photon 9, 489–490 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.135
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