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We theoretically demonstrate linear spin-wave nonreciprocity in a Ni80Fe20 nanostripe waveguide, based on interband magnonic transitions induced by a time-reversal and spatialinversion symmetry breaking magnetic field. An analytical…

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We experimentally investigate the impulsive shock propagation caused by an impact into vertically oriented 3D granular packings under gravity. We observe a crossover of wave propagation, from sound excitation at low impact to shock front…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-18 S. van den Wildenberg , X. Nguyen , A. Tourin , X. Jia

The dispersion relation of spin waves can vary monotonically about the center of the Brillouin zone, allowing zero-momentum wavepackets to flow unidirectionally, which is of interest for applications. Techniques such as propagating spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-02 G. Y. Thiancourt , S. M. Ngom , N. Bardou , T. Devolder

We report on the propagation of spin waves in permalloy microstripes. By means of scanning Kerr microscopy combined with continuous microwave excitation, we detect the time evolution of spin-wave interference patterns in an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-14 Andreas Krohn , Sebastian Mansfeld , Jan Podbielski , Jesco Topp , Wolfgang Hansen , Detlef Heitmann , Stefan Mendach

The reflectivity of a highly localized magnetic inhomogeneity is experimentally studied. The inhomogeneity is created by a dc-current carrying wire placed on the surface of a ferrite film. The reflection of propagating dipole-dominated…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-28 T. Neumann , A. A. Serga , B. Hillebrands , M. P. Kostylev

We present an approach enabling generation of narrow spin wave beams in thin homogeneous ferromagnetic films. The main idea is to match the wave vector of the spin wave with that corresponding to the spectral maximum of the exciting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 P. Gruszecki , A. E. Serebryannikov , W. Śmigaj , M. Krawczyk

Nonreciprocity of spin waves is essential for components such as magnetic isolators and circulators used in spin-wave-based computing. A ferromagnetic (FM) bilayer exhibits significant frequency nonreciprocity and has attracted attention in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-08 Shion Yoshimura , Shugo Yoshii , Ryo Ohshima , Masashi Shiraishi

Thin, metallic magnetic films can support nonreciprocal spin waves due to the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (iDMI). However, these films typically have high damping, making spin wave propagation distances short (less than…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-11 Cameron A McEleney , Karen L Livesey , Robert E Camley , Rair Macêdo

Unlike optical waves, acoustic waves in fluids are described by scalar pressure fields, and therefore are considered spinless. Here, we demonstrate experimentally the existence of spin in acoustics. In the interference of two acoustic waves…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-08-06 Chengzhi Shi , Rongkuo Zhao , Yang Long , Sui Yang , Yuan Wang , Hong Chen , Jie Ren , Xiang Zhang

We demonstrated that dipole-exchange spin waves traveling in geometrically restricted magnetic thin films satisfy the same laws of reflection and refraction as light waves. Moreover, we found for the first time novel wave behaviors of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-02-03 Sangkook Choi , Sang-Koog Kim

The technique of propagating spin wave spectroscopy is applied to a 20 nm thick Fe/MgO (001) film. The magnetic parameters extracted from the position of the resonance peaks are very close to those tabulated for bulk iron. From the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-22 Olga Gladii , David Halley , Yves Henry , Matthieu Bailleul

The parametric excitation of spin waves by coherent surface acoustic waves is demonstrated experimentally in metallic magnetic thin film structures. The involved magnon modes are analyzed with micro-focused Brillouin light scattering…

Investigating wave propagation in fluid enables a variety of important applications in underwater communications, object detections and unmanned robot control. Conventionally, momentum and spin reveal fundamental physical properties about…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yang Long , Jie Ren , Hong Chen

In ferromagnetic thin films, broken inversion symmetry and spin-orbit coupling give rise to interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. Analytic expressions for spin-wave properties show that the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

We propose an alternative micromagnetic approach to determine the spin wave dispersion relations in magnonic structures. Characteristic of the method is that a limited area of the system is continuously excited with a spatially uniform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 Ben Van de Wiele , Federico Montoncello

The field of magnonics attracts significant attention due to the possibility of utilizing information coded into the spin-wave phase or amplitude to perform computation operations on the nanoscale. Recently, spin waves were investigated in…

We have studied the propagation characteristics of spin wave modes in a permalloy stripe by time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect techniques. We observe a beating interference pattern in the time domain under the influence of an…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Siddharth Rao , Jungbum Yoon , Jan Rhensius , Charanjit S. Bhatia , Hyunsoo Yang

Mechanical impulse propagation in granular media depends strongly on the imposed confinement conditions. In this work, the propagation of sound in a granular packing contained by flexible walls that enable confinement under hydrostatic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-17 Francisco Santibanez , Rene Zuñiga , Francisco Melo

We observed spin-wave transmission through an air gap that works as a prohibited region. The spin waves were excited by circularly polarized pump pulses via the inverse Faraday effect, and their spatial propagation was detected through the…

We consider a thin film of $d$-wave altermagnet bent in a stretching-free manner and demonstrate that gradients of the film curvature induce a local magnetization which is approximately tangential to the film. The magnetization amplitude…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-16 Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Olena Gomonay , Jairo Sinova , Jeroen van den Brink , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk