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The question of how, and how fast, magnetization can be reversed is a topic of great practical interest for the manipulation and storage of magnetic information. It is generally accepted that magnetization reversal should be driven by a stimulus represented by time-non-invariant vectors such as a magnetic field, spin-polarized electric current, or cross-product of two oscillating electric fields. However, until now it has been generally assumed that heating alone, not represented as a vector at all, cannot result in a deterministic reversal of magnetization, although it may assist this process. Here we show numerically and demonstrate experimentally a novel mechanism of deterministic magnetization reversal in a ferrimagnet driven by an ultrafast heating of the medium resulting from the absorption of a sub-picosecond laser pulse without the presence of a magnetic field.

We have studied theoretically and numerically dynamic properties of the vortex magnetic state in soft submicron ferromagnetic dots with variable thickness and diameter. To describe the vortex translation mode eigenfrequencies we applied the equation of motion for the vortex collective coordinates. We calculated the vortex restoring force with explicit account of magnetostatic interaction on the bases of the "rigid" vortex and two-vortices "side charges free" models. The latter model well explains the results of our micromagnetic numerical calculations. The translation mode eigenfrequency is inversely proportional to the vortex static initial susceptibility and lies in GHz range for submicron in-plane dot sizes. Introduction. Magnetic solitons and other non-linear magnetization distributions attract

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