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Recent interest in developing fast spintronic devices and laser-controllable magnetic solids has sparked tremendous experimental and theoretical efforts to understand and manipulate ultrafast dynamics in materials. Studies of spin dynamics…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-21 Xinwei Li , Dasom Kim , Yincheng Liu , Junichiro Kono

This work combines theory and experiment to examine the mechanisms underlying the harmonic generation of magnons. We develop a nonlinear spin-wave framework that is directly analogous to harmonic generation in nonlinear optics, and combine…

Magnonics is a research field complementary to spintronics, in which the quanta of spin waves (magnons) replace electrons as information carriers, promising less energy dissipation. The development of ultrafast nanoscale magnonic logic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 J. R. Hortensius , D. Afanasiev , M. Matthiesen , R. Leenders , R. Citro , A. V. Kimel , R. V. Mikhaylovskiy , B. A. Ivanov , A. D. Caviglia

We show how amplitude modulated, coherent high-frequency drives can be used to access otherwise difficult to reach collective resonances and off-resonantly induce parametric instabilities. In particular, we demonstrate that difficult to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Egor I. Kiselev , Jonas F. Karcher , Mark S. Rudner , Rembert Duine , Netanel H. Lindner

We study high harmonic generation in altermagnetic metals with and without spin-orbit coupling. The altermagnetism manifests itself in the magnetic field dependence of the low harmonics associated with intra-band dynamics. Spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Philipp Werner , Markus Lysne , Yuta Murakami

One of the cornerstone effects in spintronics is spin pumping by dynamical magnetization that is steadily precessing (around, e.g., the $z$-axis) with frequency $\omega_0$, due to absorption of low-power microwaves of frequency $\omega_0$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Jalil Varela Manjarres , Branislav K. Nikolic

Terahertz (THz) magnonics represent the notion of mathematical algebraic operations of magnons such as addition and subtraction in THz regime which is an emergent dissipationless ultrafast alternative to existing data processing…

We theoretically study the high-harmonic generation (HHG) in one-dimensional spin systems. While in electronic systems the driving by AC electric fields produces radiation from the dynamics of excited charges, we consider here the situation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-24 Shintaro Takayoshi , Yuta Murakami , Philipp Werner

The nonlinearity of magnetization precession and spin waves is a cornerstone of contemporary magnonics. We investigate nonlinear magnetization dynamics in a thin epitaxial iron film driven by femtosecond laser pulses in regimes of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 P. I. Gerevenkov , L. A. Shelukhin , Ia. A. Filatov , P. A. Dvortsova , A. M. Kalashnikova

We report the emergence of highly nonlinear spin and charge pumping in an altermagnetic system driven by magnetic dynamics. The non-relativistic spin-momentum coupling inherent to altermagnets (AMs) generates a giant momentum dependent spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Ousmane Ly

Understanding spin-lattice coupling represents a key challenge in modern condensed matter physics, with crucial importance and implications for ultrafast and 2D-magnetism. The efficiency of angular momentum and energy transfer between spins…

A central goal in spintronics and magnonics is the use of spin waves rather than electrons for efficient information processing. The key to integrate such spintronic circuits with electronic circuits is the ability to inject, control and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 J. S. Harms , H. Y. Yuan , Rembert A. Duine

The interaction between lattice and spins is at the heart of an extremely intriguing ultrafast dynamics in magnetic materials. In this work we formulate a general non-equilibrium theory that disentangles the complex interplay between them…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-31 Pablo Maldonado , Yaroslav O. Kvashnin

Magnetic order typically emerges due to the short-range exchange interaction between the constituent electronic spins. Recent discoveries have found a crucial role for spin-phonon coupling in various phenomena from optical ultrafast…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Petros Andreas Pantazopoulos , Johannes Feist , Francisco J. García-Vidal , Akashdeep Kamra

Current-induced spin generations are of significant importance for electrically controllable magnetization. Due to symmetry constraints, linear spin generation is absent in centrosymmetric magnets and nonlinear contributions become crucial.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Jie Zhang , Ruijing Fang , Zhichao Zhou , Xiao Li

We show that charge carrier transport in graphene exhibit sharp resonances in the presence of spatially and temporarily modulated scattering. Resonances occur when the period of an applied a-c field corresponds to the time taken by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Samwel Sekwao , Jean-Pierre Leburton

We experimentally observe the generation of magnon harmonics and subharmonics in an on-chip surface acoustic wave resonator incorporating a thin Co$_{20}$Fe$_{60}$B$_{20}$ film, using micro-focused Brillouin light scattering. In our…

Terahertz (THz) signals, mainly generated by photonic or electronic approaches, are being sought for various applications, whereas the development of magnetic source might be a necessary step to harness the magnetic nature of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Zhifeng Zhu , Kaiming Cai , Jiefang Deng , Venkata Pavan Kumar Miriyala , Hyunsoo Yang , Xuanyao Fong , Gengchiau Liang

Employing electron spin instead of charge to develop spintronic devices holds the merits of low-power consumption in information technologies. Meanwhile, the demand for increasing speed in spintronics beyond current CMOS technology has…

We introduce a new mechanism for second-harmonic generation through geometrically rectifying-funneling-ballistic electrons in THz optical resonators. Our resonant rectifiers inherently act as second-order harmonic generators, rectifying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Hue T. B. Do , Gregory K. Ngirmang , Wu Lin , Michel Bosman