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For applications making use of magnonic spin currents damping effects, which decrease the spin conductivity, have to be minimized. We here investigate the magnon transport in an yttrium iron garnet thin film with strongly reduced effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Janine Gückelhorn , Tobias Wimmer , Manuel Müller , Stephan Geprägs , Hans Hübl , Rudolf Gross , Matthias Althammer

We study magnon spectra at finite temperature in yttrium iron garnet from tight-binding model with nearest neighboring exchange interaction. The spin reduction due to thermal magnon excitation are taken into account via the mean field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Ka Shen

Phonon carrier interactions can have significant impact on device performance. They can be probed by measuring the phonon lifetime, which reflects the interaction strength of a phonon with other quasi-particles in particular charge carriers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-13 Dong-Hun Chae , Benjamin Krauss , Klaus von Klitzing , Jurgen H. Smet

Modeling spin-wave (magnon) dynamics in novel materials is important to advance spintronics and spin-based quantum technologies. The interactions between magnons and lattice vibrations (phonons) limit the length scale for magnon transport.…

Applications based on spin currents strongly profit from the control and reduction of their effective damping and their transport properties. We here experimentally observe magnon mediated transport of spin (angular) momentum through a 13.4…

We investigate the microwave-power dependence of magnon-photon coupling in a yttrium iron garnet-sphere/split-ring-resonator hybrid system at room temperature and demonstrate that nonlinear spin-wave interactions suppress the coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Dinesh Wagle , Anish Rai , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch

Weexperimentally study the temperature dependence of the magnon-phonon coupling in a yttrium iron garnet (YIG)/gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG) heterostructure. More specifically, we use broadband ferromagnetic resonance to investigate the…

"Pumping" of phonons by a dynamic magnetization promises to extend the range and functionality of magnonic devices. We explore the impact of phonon pumping on room-temperature ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectra of bilayers of thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Richard Schlitz , Luise Siegl , Takuma Sato , Weichao Yu , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Hans Huebl , Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein

We investigate many-body effects on the spin-split electron bands in altermagnets by computing the electron self-energy arising from interactions with magnons, phonons, and hybridized magnon-phonon modes. These interactions lead to band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-24 Kristoffer Leraand , Kristian Mæland , Asle Sudbø

Solid-state platforms based on bosonic quasiparticles offer a compelling route toward on-chip quantum information technologies scalable to nanometer dimensions. Coherence time, a key figure of merit for any quantum system, is fundamentally…

In this work, we theoretically study the magnon spin transport in easy-plane antiferromagnetic insulators in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field. By exactly calculating the magnon spectrum, we find the band splitting due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Ka Shen

The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) is observed in magnetic insulator|heavy metal bilayers as an inverse spin Hall effect voltage under a temperature gradient. The SSE can be detected nonlocally as well, viz. in terms of the voltage in a second…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 L. J. Cornelissen , K. Oyanagi , T. Kikkawa , Z. Qiu , T. Kuschel , G. E. W. Bauer , B. J. van Wees , E. Saitoh

Electron-phonon interaction has been well known to create major resistance to electron transport in metals and semiconductors, whereas less studies were directed to its effect on the phonon transport, especially in semiconductors. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-25 Bolin Liao , Bo Qiu , Jiawei Zhou , Samuel Huberman , Keivan Esfarjani , Gang Chen

Yttrium Iron Garnet is the ubiquitous magnetic insulator used for studying pure spin currents. The exchange constants reported in the literature vary considerably between different experiments and fitting procedures. Here we calculate them…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-25 Li-Shan Xie , Guang-Xi Jin , Lixin He , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Joseph Barker , Ke Xia

Magnon transport through a magnetic insulator can be controlled by current-biased heavy-metal gates that modulate the magnon conductivity via the magnon density. Here, we report nonlinear modulation effects in 10$\,$nm thick yttrium iron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 J. Liu , X-Y. Wei , G. E. W. Bauer , J. Ben Youssef , B. J. van Wees

We propose an effective approach for generating significant amount of entanglement and asymmetric steering between photon and phonon in a cavity magnomechanical system which consists of a microwave cavity and a yttrium iron garnet sphere.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Tian-Ang Zheng , Ye Zheng , Lei Wang , Chang-Geng Liao

We present a systematic study of the temperature dependence of diffusive magnon spin transport, using a non-local device geometry. In our measurements, we detect spin signals arising from electrical and thermal magnon generation, and we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Ludo J. Cornelissen , Bart J. van Wees

We develop a Boltzmann transport theory of coupled magnon-phonon transport in ferromagnetic insulators. The explicit treatment of the magnon-phonon coupling within the Boltzmann approach allows us to calculate the low-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Rico Schmidt , Francis Wilken , Tamara S. Nunner , Piet W. Brouwer

We theoretically demonstrate that adding an easy-axis magnetic anisotropy facilitates magnon condensation in thin yttrium iron garnet (YIG) films. Dipolar interactions in a quasi-equilibrium state stabilize room-temperature magnon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Therese Frostad , Philipp Pirro , Alexander A. Serga , Burkard Hillebrands , Arne Brataas , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

Low energy consumption enabled by charge-free information transport, which is free from ohmic heating, and the ability to process phase-encoded data by nanometer-sized interference devices at GHz and THz frequencies are just a few benefits…