  Most laser-induced femtosecond magnetism investigations are done in magnetic
thin films. Nanostructured magnetic dots, with their reduced dimensionality,
present new opportunities for spin manipulation. Here we predict that if a
magnetic dot has a dipole-forbidden transition between the lowest occupied
molecular orbital (LUMO) and the highest unoccupied molecular orbital (HOMO),
but a dipole-allowed transition between LUMO+1 and HOMO, electromagnetically
inducedtransparency can be used to prevent ultrafast laser-induced spin
momentum reduction, or spin protection. This is realized through a strong dump
pulse to funnel the population into LUMO+1. If the time delay between the pump
and dump pulses is longer than 60 fs, a population inversion starts and spin
switching is achieved. Thesepredictions are detectable experimentally.
