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Magnon spintronics aims to harness spin waves in magnetic films for information technologies. Color center magnetometry is a promising tool for imaging spin waves, using electronic spins associated with atomic defects in solid-state…

We present experimental observations of the interference of spin-wave modes propagating in opposite directions in micron-sized NiFe-waveguides. To monitor the local spin-wave intensity distribution and phase of the formed interference…

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Raman heterodyne spectroscopy is a powerful tool for characterizing the energy and dynamics of spins. The technique uses an optical pump to transfer coherence from a spin transition to an optical transition where the coherent emission is…

Coherent magnon modes in a truly three-dimensional (3D) magnonic crystal have not yet been investigated. This scientific gap exists despite the numerous theoretical predictions about miniband formation and edge modes with topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Huixin Guo , Kilian Lenz , Mateusz Gołębiewski , Ryszard Narkowicz , Jürgen Lindner , Maciej Krawczyk , Dirk Grundler

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…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) magnetometry is a new technique for imaging spin waves in magnetic materials. It detects spin waves by their microwave magnetic stray fields, which decay evanescently on the scale of the spin-wavelength. Here, we use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Brecht G. Simon , Samer Kurdi , Joris J. Carmiggelt , Michael Borst , Allard Katan , Toeno van der Sar

We present the parametric excitation of spin-wave modes in YIG micro-disks via parallel pumping. Their spectroscopy is performed using magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM), while their spatial profiles are determined by micro-focus…

The intrinsic fluctuations of electron spins in semiconductors and atomic vapors generate a small, randomly-varying "spin noise" that can be detected by sensitive optical methods such as Faraday rotation. Recent studies have demonstrated…

One of the main challenges in magnonics is the efficiency of the conversion of microwave signals into spin waves. This efficiency is low due to the significant mismatch between microwave and spin wave wavelengths in the GHz range $10^{-2}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Liubov Ivzhenko , Sergey Polevoy , Sergey Nedukh , Maciej Krawczyk

Measuring local magnetization dynamics and its spatial variation is essential for advancements in spintronics and relevant applications. Here we demonstrate a phase-sensitive imaging technique for studying patterned magnetic structures…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-10 Feng Guo , J. M. Bartell , D. H. Ngai , G. D. Fuchs

More than 30 years ago, the feasibility of detecting magnetic resonance in the Faraday-rotation noise spectrum of transmitted light has been demonstrated experimentally. However, practical applications of this experimental approach have…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-28 Valerii S. Zapasskii

By using intense coherent electromagnetic radiation, it may be possible to manipulate the properties of quantum materials very quickly, or even induce new and potentially useful phases that are absent in equilibrium. For instance, ultrafast…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-30 Jonathan B. Curtis , Ankit Disa , Michael Fechner , Andrea Cavalleri , Prineha Narang

Compact, low-power analog RF components are essential for next-generation microwave electronics and wireless systems. We demonstrate an all-electric integrated piezo-magnonic microelectromechanical system that enables efficient voltage…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 M. Cocconcelli , A. Angotti , P. Florio , N. Pellizzi , F. Maspero , R. Bertacco

Methods for detecting spin waves rely on electrodynamical coupling between the spin wave dipolar field and an inductive probe. While this coupling is usually treated as constant, in this work, we experimentally and theoretically show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-11 Pablo Borys , Oleg Kolokoltsev , Ivan Gomez-Arista , Igor Zavislyak , Gennady Melkov , Naser Qureshi , Cesar Ordonez-Romero

In search of two level quantum systems that implement a qubit, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has been intensively studied for years. Despite favorable properties such as remarkable defect spin coherence times, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Clara Mühlherr , V. O. Shkolnikov , Guido Burkard

By using the stripline Microwave Vector Network Analyzer Ferromagnetic Resonance and Pulsed Inductive Microwave Magnetometry spectroscopy techniques, we study a strong coupling regime of magnons to microwave photons in the planar geometry…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 B. Bhoi , T. Cliff , I. S. Maksymov , M. Kostylev , R. Aiyar , N. Venkataramani , S. Prasad , R. L. Stamps

Optomagnonic modulation techniques are an emerging platform for information transfer from the microwave to the optical domain. However, these techniques focus largely on the spectral domain of the transduced signal. Given the potential of…

We use the phase-resolved imaging to directly study the nonlinear modification of the wavelength of spin waves propagating in 100-nm thick, in-plane magnetized YIG waveguides. We show that, by using moderate microwave powers, one can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 S. R. Lake , B. Divinskiy , G. Schmidt , S. O. Demokritov , V. E. Demidov

We describe a spin interferometer using ultracold YbF molecules and develop the complete set of techniques needed to measure the electron's electric dipole moment, $d_e$, with this apparatus. The molecules are cooled in an optical molasses…

We study the interaction of a weak probe field, having two orthogonally polarized components, with an optically dense medium of four-level atoms in a tripod configuration. In the presence of a coherent driving laser, electromagnetically…

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