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Optical pump-probe techniques are used to generate and measure electron spin polarization in a gallium arsenide epilayer in which the electron spin coherence time exceeds the mode-locked laser repetition period. Resonant spin amplification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-14 Michael Macmahon , Joseph R. Iafrate , Michael J. Dominguez , Vanessa Sih

We report on the experimental observation of excitation and detection of parametric spin waves and spin currents in the bulk acoustic wave resonator. The hybrid resonator consists of ZnO piezoelectric film, yttrium iron garnet (YIG) films…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 S. G. Alekseev , S. E. Dizhur , N. I. Polzikova , V. A. Luzanov , A. O. Raevskiy , A. P. Orlov , V. A. Kotov , S. A. Nikitov

We report the parametric amplification of a microwave signal in a Kerr medium formed from superconducting qubits. Two mutually coupled flux qubits, embedded in the current antinode of a superconducting coplanar waveguide resonator, are used…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Rehak , P. Neilinger , M. Grajcar , G. Oelsner , U. Hubner , E. Ilichev , H. -G. Meyer

Single-mode high-index-contrast waveguides have been ubiquitously exploited in optical, microwave, and phononic structures for achieving enhanced wave-matter interactions. Although micro-scale optomechanical and electro-optical devices have…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-05 Na Zhu , Xufeng Zhang , Xu Han , Chang-Ling Zou , Hong X. Tang

Uncovering pathways to optically drive magnetic order-disorder transitions on ultrashort timescales can lead to the realization of novel out-of-equilibrium quantum phenomena. A long-sought pathway is to directly excite a highly non-thermal…

Magnetization dynamic response of coupled and uncoupled spin valves with structure NiFe(20 nm)/Cu(t_Cu)/NiFe(20 nm)/IrMn(10nm) were probed using broadband ferromagnetic resonance absorption measurements. By varying the Cu thickness t_Cu we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 D. E. Gonzalez-Chavez , R. Dutra , W. O. Rosa , T. L. Marcondes , A. Mello , R. L. Sommer

The magnetization dynamics induced by standing elastic waves excited in a thin ferromagnetic film is described with the aid of micromagnetic simulations taking into account the magnetoelastic coupling between spins and lattice strains. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-10 A. V. Azovtsev , N. A. Pertsev

This paper investigates the excitation of various natural modes in a magnetized bi-ion or dusty plasma. The excitation is provided by parametrically pumping the magnetic field. Here two ion-like species are allowed to be fully mobile. This…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. P. Hertzberg , N. F. Cramer , S. V. Vladimirov

We investigated spin injection by spin pumping from a spin-injector(NiFe) into a spin-sink to detect spin fluctuations in the spin-sink. By scanning the ordering-temperature of several magnetic transitions, we found that enhanced spin…

Nonlinear kinetic inductance in a high Q superconducting coplanar waveguide microresonator can cause a bifurcation of the resonance curve. Near the critical pumping power and frequency for bifurcation, large parametric gain is observed for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Erik A. Tholen , Adem Ergul , Kai Stannigel , Carsten Hutter , David B. Haviland

We experimentally investigate frequency-selective spin wave (SW) transmission in a micrometre-scale, ring-shaped magnonic resonator integrated with a linear Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) stripe. Using super-Nyquist-sampling magneto-optical Kerr…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Franz Vilsmeier , Takuya Taniguchi , Michael Lindner , Christian Riedel , Christian Back

We present a time-resolved study of the DC-current driven magnetization dynamics in a microstructured Cr/Heusler/Pt waveguide by means of Brillouin light scattering. A reduction of the effective spin-wave damping via the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 T. Meyer , T. Brächer , F. Heussner , A. A. Serga , H. Naganuma , K. Mukaiyama , M. Oogane , Y. Ando , B. Hillebrands , P. Pirro

We employed micro-focused Brillouin light scattering to study the amplification of the thermal spin wave eigenmodes by means of a pure spin current, generated by the spin-Hall effect, in a transversely magnetized Pt(4nm)/NiFe(4nm)/SiO2(5nm)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-25 M. Madami , G. Gubbiotti , T. Moriyama , K. Tanaka , G. Siracusano , M. Carpentieri , G. Finocchio , S. Tacchi , T. Ono , G. Carlotti

We theoretically investigate several types of plasmonic slot waveguides for enhancing the measured signal in Raman spectroscopy, which is a consequence of electric field and Purcell factor enhancements, as well as an increase in…

Atom spin sensors occupy a prominent position in the scenario of quantum technology, as they can combine precise measurements with appealing miniature packages which are crucial for many applications. In this work, we report on the design…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 J. D. Zipfel , P. Bevington , L. Wright , W. Chalupczak , G. Quick , B. Steele , J. Nicholson , V. Guarrera

Superconducting resonator parametric amplifiers are potentially important components for a wide variety of fundamental physics experiments and utilitarian applications. We propose and realise an operating scheme that achieves amplification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Songyuan Zhao , Stafford Withington , Christopher Thomas

Superconducting traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) are increasingly used in various applications, including quantum computing, quantum sensing, and dark matter detection. However, one important characteristic of these amplifiers,…

We theoretically consider the spin-wave mode- and wavelength-dependent enhancement of the Gilbert damping in magnetic insulator--normal metal bilayers due to spin pumping as well as the enhancement's relation to direct and alternating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 André Kapelrud , Arne Brataas

Electrical detection of magnetization dynamics in magnetic insulators underpins both fundamental studies of magnon transport and the development of low-loss magnonic devices. In heavy-metal/magnetic-insulator heterostructures, spin pumping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Hanchen Wang , William Legrand , Shangyuan Wang , Davit Petrosyan , Hiroki Matsumoto , Richard Schlitz , Ka Shen , Pietro Gambardella

We experimentally demonstrate that large magnetic vortex oscillations can be parametrically excited in a magnetic tunnel junction by the injection of radio-frequency (rf) currents at twice the natural frequency of the gyrotropic vortex core…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 P. Bortolotti , C. Serpico , E. Grimaldi , A. Dussaux , J. Grollier , V. Cros , K. Yakushiji , A. Fukushima , H. Kubota , R. Matsumoto , S. Yuasa