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A domain wall in a magnet with easy-axis anisotropy is shown to harbor spin superfluid associated with its spontaneous breaking of the U(1) spin-rotational symmetry. The spin superfluid is shown to have several topological properties, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We demonstrate, at room temperature, the strong coupling of the fundamental and non-uniform magnetostatic modes of an yttrium iron garnet (YIG) ferrimagnetic sphere to the electromagnetic modes of a co-axial cavity. The well-defined field…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-10 N. J. Lambert , J. A. Haigh , A. J. Ferguson

In this work we show that a magnon spin capacitor can be realized at a junction between two exchange coupled ferromagnets. In this junction, the buildup of magnon spin over the junction is coupled to the difference in magnon chemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Pieter M. Gunnink , Tim Ludwig , Rembert A. Duine

A dense system of independent oscillators, connected only by their interaction with the same cavity excitation mode, will radiate coherently, which effect is termed superradiance. In several cases, especially if the density of oscillators…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-18 L. Weymann , A. Shuvaev , A. Pimenov , A. A. Mukhin , D. Szaller

The features of phonon-magnon interconversion in acoustic resonator determine the efficiency of spin pumping from YIG into Pt that may be detected electrically through the inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE). Based on the methods developed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-16 S. G. Alekseev , N. I. Polzikova , A. O. Raevskiy

Using liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) technique (111) yttrium iron garnet (YIG) films with thicknesses of ~100 nm and surface roughnesses as low as 0.3 nm have been grown as a basic material for spin-wave propagation experiments in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-05 Carsten Dubs , Oleksii Surzhenko , Ralf Linke , Andreas Danilewsky , Uwe Brückner , Jan Dellith

We investigate the phenomenon of magnomechanically induced grating (MMIG) within a cavity magnomechanical system, comprising magnons (spins in a ferromagnet, such as yttrium iron garnet), cavity microwave photons, and phonons [\textit{J.…

Time-resolved scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (TR-STXM) has been used for the direct imaging of spin wave dynamics in thin film yttrium iron garnet (YIG) with spatial resolution in the sub 100 nm range. Application of this x-ray…

We theoretically investigate the transfer of angular momentum between a spin superfluid and a domain wall in an exchange coupled easy-axis and easy-plane magnetic insulator system. A domain wall in the easy-axis magnet absorbs spin angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Pramey Upadhyaya , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The cavity-mediated coupling between magnons in an yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) sphere and a superconducting qubit has recently been demonstrated as a new platform for preparing macroscopic quantum states. Here, based on this system, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Rong-Can Yang , Gang Liu , Gen Li , Jie Li

Spin waves can probe the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) which gives rise to topological spin textures, such as skyrmions. However, the DMI has not yet been reported in yttrium iron garnet (YIG) with arguably the lowest damping for…

We report the first observation of the magnon-polariton bistability in a cavity magnonics system consisting of cavity photons strongly interacting with the magnons in a small yttrium iron garnet (YIG) sphere. The bistable behaviors are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yi-Pu Wang , Guo-Qiang Zhang , Dengke Zhang , Tie-Fu Li , C. -M. Hu , J. Q. You

The magnon gas created by spatially localized longitudinal parametric pumping in an yttrium-iron-garnet film is probed by a traveling packet of spin waves non-resonant with the pumping field. The analysis of the influence of the magnon gas…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-18 T. Neumann , A. A. Serga , B. Hillebrands

We utilize conventional wave-vector-resolved Brillouin light scattering technology to investigate the spin wave response in YIG thin films under high-power microwave excitation. By varying the microwave frequency, external bias magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Guofu Xu , Kang An , Wenjun Ma , Xiling Li , C. K. Ong , Chi Zhang , Guozhi Chai

Anomalous Hall-like signals in platinum in contact with magnetic insulators are common observations that could be explained by either proximity magnetization or spin Hall magnetoresistance. In this work, longitudinal and transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Tobias Kosub , Saül Vélez , Juan M. Gomez-Perez , Luis E. Hueso , Jürgen Faßbender , Fèlix Casanova , Denys Makarov

We study the magnon spin transport in the magnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG) in a nonlocal experiment and compare the magnon spin excitation and detection for the heavy metal paramagnetic electrodes platinum (Pt|YIG|Pt) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Jing Liu , Ludo J. Cornelissen , Juan Shan , Bart J. van Wees , Timo Kuschel

We demonstrate the electrical detection of magnon-magnon hybrid dynamics in yttrium iron garnet/permalloy (YIG/Py) thin film bilayer devices. Direct microwave current injection through the conductive Py layer excites the hybrid dynamics…

Magnetically full or partially compensated insulating ferrimagnets with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) offer valuable insights into fundamental spin-wave physics and high-speed magnonic applications. This study reports on key…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-07 Carsten Dubs , Oleksii Surzhenko

We measure the inverse spin Hall effect of Cu$_{1-x}$Ir$_{x}$ thin films on yttrium iron garnet over a wide range of Ir concentrations ($0.05 \leqslant x \leqslant 0.7$). Spin currents are triggered through the spin Seebeck effect, either…

Ferromagnetic metals and insulators are widely used for generation, control and detection of magnon spin signals. Most magnonic structures are based primarily on either magnetic insulators or ferromagnetic metals, while heterostructures…