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We present a theoretical study, supported by simulations and experiments, on the spreading of a silicone oil drop under MHz-frequency surface acoustic wave (SAW) excitation in the underlying solid substrate. Our time-dependent theoretical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-07 M. Fasano , Y. Li , J. A. Diez , J. D'Addesa , O. Manor , L. J. Cummings , L. Kondic

We have developed a simple detection scheme to study spin waves excited by surface acoustic wave (SAW) in ferromagnetic thin films. Metallic antennas made of Ta and a ferromagnetic element are placed along the SAW propagation path. The SAW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Hiroki Matsumoto , Yasuhiro Todaka , Takuya Kawada , Masashi Kawaguchi , Masamitsu Hayashi

We investigate the acousto-electric transport induced by surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in epitaxial graphene (EG) coated by a MgO/ZnO film. The deposition of a thin MgO layer protects the EG during the sputtering of a piezoelectric ZnO film…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Yi-Ting Liou , Alberto Hernández-Mínguez , Jens Herfort , João Marcelo J. Lopes , Abbes Tahraoui , Paulo V. Santos

Spin waves, the collective excitations of the magnetic order parameter, and magnons, the associated quasiparticles, are envisioned as possible data carriers in future wave-based computing architectures. On the road towards spin-wave…

We use a surface acoustic wave (SAW) cavity resonator to study the coupling of acoustic magnons in a synthetic antiferromagnet (SAF) and the phonons carried by SAWs. The SAF is composed of a CoFeB/Ru/CoFeB trilayer and the scattering matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Hiroki Matsumoto , Isamu Yasuda , Motoki Asano , Takuya Kawada , Masashi Kawaguchi , Daiki Hatanaka , Masamitsu Hayashi

The flow profile in a capillary gap and the pumping efficiency of an acoustic micropump employing Surface Acoustic Waves is investigated both experimentally and theoretically. Such ultrasonic surface waves on a piezoelectric substrate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Guttenberg , A. Rathgeber , S. Keller , J. O. Rädler , A. Wixforth , M. Kostur , M. Schindler , P. Talkner

We propose two approaches to cloak the spin waves (magnons) by investigating magnetization dynamics. One approach is based on a spatially inhomogeneous anisotropic magnetic moment tensor. The other mechanism is using a spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Mehrdad Elyasi , Charanjit S. Bhatia , Cheng-Wei Qiu , Hyunsoo Yang

Recent theoretical studies have demonstrated the possibility to excite and sustain noncollinear magnetization states in ferromagnetic nanowires. The resulting state is referred to as a spin-density wave (SDW). SDWs can be interpreted as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Patrick Sprenger , Mark A. Hoefer , Ezio Iacocca

We study the electronic and transport properties of a topological insulator nanowire including selective magnetic doping of its surfaces. We use a model which is appropriate to describe materials like Bi$_2$Se$_3$ within a k.p approximation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Sergio Acero , Luis Brey , William Herrera , Alfredo Levy Yeyati

In this work, we present the results of a systematic experimental study of linear and parametric spin wave resonant excitation accompanied by spin currents (spin pumping) in a multifrequency composite bulk acoustic wave resonator with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 S. G. Alekseev , N. I. Polzikova , V. A. Luzanov , S. A. Nikitov

We present an experimental study of a 2.5 GHz electron pump based on the quantized acoustoelectric current driven by surface acoustic waves (SAWs) through a shallow-etched point contact in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. At low temperatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Utko , K. Gloos , J. B. Hansen , P. E. Lindelof

Several recent experimental studies have confirmed the possibility of switching the magnetization direction in the small magnetic domains by pumping large spin-polarized currents through them. On the basis of equations proposed by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ya. B. Bazaliy , B. A. Jones , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Magnon spintronics is a prosperous field that promises beyond-CMOS technology based on elementary excitations of the magnetic order that act as information carriers for future computational architectures. Unidirectional propagation of spin…

We theoretically explore how light-driven optical phonons can be used to drive magnetic exchange interactions into interesting physical regimes by developing a general theory of spin-phonon pumping in magnetic insulators with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Milan Kornjača , Rebecca Flint

We explore the tunability of the phonon polarization in suspended uniaxially strained graphene by magneto-phonon resonances. The uniaxial strain lifts the degeneracy of the LO and TO phonons, yielding two cross-linearly polarized phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Jens Sonntag , Sven Reichardt , Bernd Beschoten , Christoph Stampfer

We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to study propagation of sound waves in strongly coupled (2+1) dimensional conformal magnetic fluids. Our computation provides a nontrivial consistency check of the viscous magneto-hydrodynamics of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Evgeny I. Buchbinder , Alex Buchel , Samuel E. Vazquez

We investigate the propagation of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in a layered half-space system comprising a continuous, sub-wavelength-thick layer weakly adhering to a substrate. Using finite element simulations, we demonstrate that this…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Martin Robin , Thomas Dehoux , Maroun Abi Ghanem

We report on the modulation of indirect excitons (IXs) as well as their transport by moving periodic potentials produced by surface acoustic waves (SAWs). The potential modulation induced by the SAW strain modifies both the band gap and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Adriano Violante , Kobi Cohen , Snežana Lazić , Rudolph Hey , Ronen Rapaport , Paulo Ventura Santos

We study the symmetry of the coupling between surface acoustic waves and ferromagnetic resonance in a thin magnetic film of CoFeB deposited on top of a piezoelectric Z-cut LiNbO3 substrate. We vary the orientation of the applied magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-24 Florian Millo , Rafael Lopes Seeger , Claude Chappert , Aurélie Solignac , Thibaut Devolder

We report large nonreciprocity in the transmission of shear-horizontal surface acoustic waves (SAWs) on LiTaO3 substrate coated with a FeCoSiB/NiFeCu magnetoelastic bilayer. The large difference in saturation magnetization of the two layers…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Mingxian Huang , Yuanyuan Liu , Wenbin Hu , Yutong Wu , Wen Wang , Wei He , Huaiwu Zhang , Feiming Bai