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Magnonics is a rapidly developing subfield of spintronics, which deals with devices and circuits that utilize spin currents carried by magnons - quanta of spin waves. Magnon current, i.e. spin waves, can be used for information processing,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-18 S. Rumyantsev , M. Balinskiy , F. Kargar , A. Khitun , A. A. Balandin

Manipulation of directional magnon propagation, known as magnon spin current, is essential for developing magnonic memory and logic devices featuring nonvolatile functionalities and ultralow power consumption. Magnon spin current can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Kaili Li , Lei Wang , Yu Wang , Yuanjun Guo , Shuping Lv , Yuewei He , Weiwei Lin , Tai Min , Shaojie Hu , Sen Yang , Dezhen Xue , Aqun Zheng , Shuming Yang , Xiangdong Ding

Efficient numerical methods are required for the design of optimised devices. In magnonics, the primary computational tool is micromagnetic simulations, which solve the Landau-Lifshitz equation discretised in time and space. However, their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Wojciech Śmigaj , Krzysztof Sobucki , Paweł Gruszecki , Maciej Krawczyk

Spintronics is concerned with replacing charge current with current of spin, the electron's intrinsic angular momentum. In magnetic insulators, spin currents are carried by magnons, the quanta of spin-wave excitations on top of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Samuel Mañas-Valero , Toeno van der Sar , Rembert A. Duine , Bart van Wees

We propose to use a soft/hard exchange-spring coupling bilayer magnetic structure to introduce a narrow channel for spin-wave propagation. We show by micromagnetic simulations that broad-band Damon-Eshbach geometry spin waves can be…

The field of magnonics, which aims at using spin waves as carriers in data processing devices, has attracted increasing interest in recent years. We present and study micromagnetically a nonlinear nanoscale magnonic ring resonator device…

We demonstrate that the spin wave Cherenkov effect can be used to design the unidirectional spin wave emitter with tunable frequency and switchable direction of emission. In our numerical studies, we propose to use a pair of traveling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Gauthier Philippe , Mathieu Moalic , Jarosław W. Kłos

Spin wave nonreciprocity in domain walls (DWs) allows for unidirectional signal processing in reconfigurable magnonic circuits. Using scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM), we examined coherently-excited magnons propagating in…

Controlling magnon densities in magnetic materials enables driving spin transport in magnonic devices. We demonstrate the creation of large, out-of-equilibrium magnon densities in a thin-film magnetic insulator via microwave excitation of…

A disturbance in the local magnetic order of a solid body can propagate across a material just like a wave. This wave is named spin wave, and its quanta are known as magnons. Recently, physicists proposed the usage of magnons to carry and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 A. V. Chumak

Spin-wave computing, a potential successor to CMOS-based technologies, relies on the efficient manipulation of spin waves for information processing. While basic logic devices like magnon transistors, gates, and adders have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Jan Klíma , Ondřej Wojewoda , Václav Roučka , Tomáš Molnár , Jakub Holobrádek , Michal Urbánek

Ferromagnet/superconductor heterostructures allow for the combination of unique physical phenomena offered by the both fields of magnetism and superconductivity. It was shown recently that spin waves can be efficiently scattered in such…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-10 Oleksandr V. Dobrovolskiy , Andrii V. Chumak

Current-induced self-sustained magnetization oscillations in spin-torque nano-oscillators (STNOs) are promising candidates for ultra-agile microwave sources or detectors. While usually STNOs behave as a monochrome source, we report here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 A. Hamadeh , D. Slobodianiuk , R. Moukhader , G. Melkov , V. Borynskyi , M. Mohseni , G. Finocchio , V. Lomakin , R. Verba , G. de Loubens , P. Pirro , O. Klein

Magnon confinement and trapping refer to the localization of magnons-quasiparticles that represent collective spin-wave excitations in magnetic materials-within specific regions or structures. This concept is essential in magnonics, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 J. Chen , H. Yu , R. Gallardo , P. Landeros , G. Gubbiotti

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence in recent years, mankind is facing an unprecedented demand for data processing. Today, almost all data processing is performed using electrons in conventional complementary…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Qi Wang , Gyorgy Csaba , Roman Verba , Andrii V. Chumak , Philipp Pirro

Spin waves are promising chargeless information carriers for the future, energetically efficient beyond-CMOS systems. Among many advantages there are the ease of achieving nonlinearity, the variety of possible interactions, and excitation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Pawel Gruszecki , Konstantin Y. Guslienko , Igor L. Lyubchanskii , Maciej Krawczyk

Altermagnets have recently attracted considerable interest due to their unique symmetry-governed spintronic properties. Here, we investigate phonon-induced magnon spin currents in a two-dimensional altermagnet. Starting from a microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Sofie Helene Ursin , Mathias Kläui , Kjetil M. D. Hals

The field of magnonics offers a new type of low-power information processing, in which magnons, the quanta of spin waves, carry and process data instead of electrons. Many magnonic devices were demonstrated recently, but the development of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Qi Wang , Andrii V. Chumak , Philipp Pirro

The miniaturisation of transistors is approaching its limits due to challenges in heat management and information transfer speed. To overcome these obstacles, emerging technologies such as spintronics are being developed, which leverage the…

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