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Recent experiments demonstrated generation of spin currents by ultrasound. We can understand this acoustically induced spin pumping in terms of the coupling between magnetization and lattice waves. Here we study the parametric excitation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Hedyeh Keshtgar , Malek Zareyan , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs), with their five orders-of-magnitude slower propagation velocity, allow for considerably shorter wavelengths at the same frequency compared to electromagnetic waves. The short wavelengths allow for device…

We show that, under an appropriate out-of-plane static magnetic field, nuclear spins in a thin specimen on a surface acoustic wave (SAW) cavity can be resonantly excited and detected through spin-rotation coupling. Since such a SAW cavity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Koji Usami , Kazuyuki Takeda

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are a versatile tool for coherently interfacing with a variety of solid-state quantum systems spanning microwave to optical frequencies, including superconducting qubits, spins, and quantum emitters. Here, we…

We theoretically study the generation of spin current due to a surface acoustic wave (SAW) in a superconductor. We model an s-wave superconductor as the mean-field Hamiltonian and calculate spin current generated via spin-vorticity coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Takumi Funato , Ai Yamakage , Mamoru Matsuo

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators provide a compact platform for confining microwave-frequency phonons and are widely used in radio-frequency technologies, but their operation at gigahertz frequencies and cryogenic temperatures remains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Aldo Tarascio , Oliver Wicki , Dominik M. Zumbühl

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) enable a wide array of technologies including RF filters, chemical and biological sensors, acousto-optic devices, acoustic control of microfluidic flow in lab-on-a-chip systems, and quantum phononics. While…

We demonstrate a spin to charge current conversion via magnon-phonon coupling and inverse Edelstein effect on the hybrid device Ni/Cu(Ag)/Bi$_{2}$O$_{3}$. The generation of spin current ($J_{s}\approx 10^{8}A/m^{2}$) due to magnon - phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Mingran Xu , Jorge Puebla , Florent Auvray , Bivas Rana , Kouta Kondou , Yoshichika Otani

Focusing microcavities for surface acoustic waves (SAWs) produce highly localized strain and piezoelectric fields that can dynamically control excitations in nanostructures. Focusing transducers (FIDTs) that generate SAW beams which match…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Madeleine E. Msall , Paulo V. Santos

We propose a scheme that can generate tunable optomechanically induced transparency in a hybrid piezooptomechanical cavity system. The system is composed of a high-quality planar distributed Bragg reflector cavity modified with an embedded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-28 Shi-Chao Wu , Li Zhang , Jian Lu , Li-Guo Qin , Zhong-Yang Wang

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) have emerged as innovative and energy-efficient means to manipulate domain walls (DWs) and skyrmions in thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) owing to the magnetoelastic coupling effect. This…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Jintao Shuai

The rising need for hybrid physical platforms has triggered a renewed interest for the development of agile radio-frequency phononic circuits with complex functionalities. The combination of travelling waves with resonant mechanical…

Voltage induced magnetization dynamics of magnetic thin films is a valuable tool to study anisotropic fields, exchange couplings, magnetization damping and spin pumping mechanism. A particularly well established technique is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Jorge Puebla , Mingran Xu , Bivas Rana , Kei Yamamoto , Sadamichi Maekawa , Yoshichika Otani

The propagation of a surface acoustic wave (SAW) on GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures is studied in the case where the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is subject to a strong magnetic field and a smooth random potential with correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Andreas Knaebchen , Yehoshua Levinson , Ora Entin-Wohlman

A non-magnetic layer can inject spin-polarized currents into an adjacent ferromagnetic layer via spin vorticity coupling (SVC), inducing spin wave resonance (SWR). In this work, we present the theoretical model of SWR generated by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Mingxian Huang , Wenbin Hu , Huaiwu Zhang , Feiming Bai

The acoustoelectric current induced by a surface acoustic wave (SAW) in a ballistic quantum point contact is considered using a quantum approach. We find that the current is of the "pumping" type and is not related to drag, i.e. to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Levinson , O. Entin-Wohlman , P. Woelfle

Using a high-resolution X-Ray diffraction measurement method, the surface acoustic waves (SAW) propagation in a graphene film on the surface of a Ca3TaGa3Si2O14 (CTGS) piezoelectric crystal was investigated, where an external current was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Z. Insepov , E. Emelin , O. Kononenko , D. V. Roshchupkin , K. B. Tnyshtykbayev , K. A. Baigarin

Strengthening magnetoacoustic coupling is crucial to the improvement of the surface acoustic wave (SAW)-driven spintronics devices. A key challenge in enhancing magnetoacoustic coupling is minimizing the phonon and magnon dissipation of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Shuting Cui , Fa Chen , Liyang Liao , Jiacheng Lu , Rui Xiong , Xiaofei Yang , Yoshichika Otani , Yue Zhang , Wei Luo

The laser ultrasonics technique perfectly fits the needs for non-contact, non-invasive, non-destructive mechanical probing of samples of mm to nm sizes. This technique is however limited to the excitation of low-amplitude strains, below the…

We demonstrate using micromagnetic simulations that a nanomagnet array excited by Surface Acoustic Waves (SAWs) can work as a reservoir that can classify sine and square waves with high accuracy. To evaluate memory effect and computing…