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We develop a model for the magnonic contribution to the unidirectional spin Hall magnetoresistance (USMR) of heavy metal/ferromagnetic insulator bilayer films. We show that diffusive transport of Holstein-Primakoff magnons leads to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 W. P. Sterk , D. Peerlings , R. A. Duine

Electrostatic gating confines and controls the transport of electrons in integrated circuits. Magnons, the quanta of spin waves of the magnetic order, are promising alternative information carriers, but difficult to gate. Here we report…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Tao Yu , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

The Hong-Ou-Mandel effect is considered a signature of the quantumness of light, as the dip in coincidence probability using semi-classical theories has an upper bound of 50%. Here we show, theoretically and experimentally, that, with…

Wave fields with spiral phase dislocations carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have been realized in many branches of physics, such as for photons, sound waves, electron beams, and neutrons. However, the OAM states of magnons (spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Yuanyuan Jiang , H. Y. Yuan , Z. -X. Li , Zhenyu Wang , H. W. Zhang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Photon-mediated magnon-magnon coupling between spatially separated Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) and permalloy (NiFe) thin films on a planar hexagonal ring resonator shows clear signatures of magnon-magnon interaction are observed without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Fizaan Khan , Sachin Verma , Biswanath Bhoi , Rajeev Singh

We experimentally demonstrate generation of coherent propagating magnons in ultra-thin magnetic-insulator films by spin-orbit torque induced by dc electric current. We show that this challenging task can be accomplished by utilizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 M. Evelt , L. Soumah , A. B. Rinkevich , S. O. Demokritov , A. Anane , V. Cros , Jamal Ben Youssef , G. de Loubens , O. Klein , P. Bortolotti , V. E. Demidov

Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect is known to be one of the main phenomena in quantum optics. The effect occurs when two identical single-photon waves enter a 1:1 beam splitter, one in each input port. When the photons are identical, they will…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-04 Dmitry N. Makarov

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 numerically demonstrate the excitation of leaky spin waves (SWs) guided along a ferromagnetic stripe by an obliquely incident SW beam on the thin film edge placed below the stripe. During propagation, leaky waves emit energy back to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Krzysztof Sobucki , Wojciech Śmigaj , Piotr Graczyk , Maciej Krawczyk , and Paweł Gruszecki

The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect ranks among the most notable quantum interference phenomena, and is central to many applications in quantum technologies. The fundamental effect appears when two independent and indistinguishable photons are…

Antiferromagnetic materials host pairs of spin-up and spin-down magnons which can be described in terms of a magnonic pseudospin. The close analogy between this magnonic pseudospin systems and that of electronic charge carriers led to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Janine Gückelhorn , Akashdeep Kamra , Tobias Wimmer , Matthias Opel , Stephan Geprägs , Rudolf Gross , Hans Huebl , Matthias Althammer

The magnon spectral problem is solved in terms of the spectrum of a diagonalizable operator for a generic class of magnetic states that includes several types of domain walls and the chiral solitons of monoaxial helimagnets. Focusing on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-17 Victor Laliena , Javier Campo

One recent breakthrough in the field of magnonics is the experimental realization of reconfigurable spin-wave nanochannels formed by magnetic domain wall with a width of $10-100$ nm [Wagner \emph{et al}., Nat. Nano. \textbf{11}, 432…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Beining Zhang , Zhenyu Wang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan , X. R. Wang

We investigate the absorption and transmission properties of a weak probe field under the influence of a strong control field in a hybrid cavity magnomechanical system in the microwave regime. This hybrid system consists of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Kamran Ullah , M. Tahir Naseem , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoglu

We experimentally demonstrate magnon Kerr effect in a cavity-magnon system, where magnons in a small yttrium iron garnet (YIG) sphere are strongly but dispersively coupled to the photons in a three-dimensional cavity. When the YIG sphere is…

In recent years, remarkable progress has been made towards encoding and processing quantum information in the large Hilbert space of bosonic modes. Mechanical resonators are of great interest for this purpose, since they confine many high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Uwe von Lüpke , Ines C. Rodrigues , Yu Yang , Matteo Fadel , Yiwen Chu

The celebrated Hong--Ou--Mandel effect illustrates the richness of two-photon interferometry. In this work, we demonstrate that this extends to the realm of time-frequency interferometry. Taking advantage of the mathematical analogy which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Nicolas Fabre , Ulysse Chabaud

We derive the anomalous Hall contributions arising from dipolar interactions to diffusive spin transport in magnetic insulators. Magnons, the carriers of angular momentum in these systems, are shown to have a non-zero Berry curvature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Pieter M. Gunnink , Rembert A. Duine , Andreas Rückriegel

The collective excitation of ordered spins, known as spin waves or magnons, can in principle radiate by emitting travelling photons to an open system when decaying to the ground state. However, in contrast to the electric dipoles, magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 B. M. Yao , T. Yu , Y. S. Gui , J. W. Rao , Y. T. Zhao , W. Lu , C. -M. Hu

By pulsed s-shell resonant excitation of a single quantum dot-micropillar system, we generate long streams of a thousand of near transform-limited single photons with high mutual indistinguishability. Hong-Ou-Mandel interference of two…