Antiferromagnetic artificial neurons responding to femtosecond-laser pulses

Researchers from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University have just published in Nature Electronics their new experiment in which they succeeded to write information into an antiferromagnet by femtosecond-laser pulses.

Kašpar, Z., Surýnek, M., Zubáč, J. et al. Quenching of an antiferromagnet into high resistivity states using electrical or ultrashort optical pulses. Nature Electronics (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-020-00506-4