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Ferro- and ferrimagnets play host to small-signal, microwave-frequency magnetic excitations called spin waves, the quanta of which are known as magnons. Over the last decade, the field of spin-wave dynamics has contributed much to our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Alexy D. Karenowska , Andrew D. Patterson , Michael J. Peterer , Einar B. Magnússon , Peter J. Leek

We demonstrate the use of the micro-Brillouin light scattering (micro-BLS) technique as a local temperature sensor for magnons in a Permalloy thin film and phonons in the glass substrate. A systematic shift in the frequencies of two…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 Daniel R. Birt , Kyongmo An , Annie Weathers , Li Shi , Maxim Tsoi , Xiaoqin Li

Stimulated Brillouin interaction between sound and light, known to be the strongest optical nonlinearity common to all amorphous and crystalline dielectrics, has been widely studied in fibers and bulk materials but rarely in optical…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-13 Gaurav Bahl , John Zehnpfennig , Matthew Tomes , Tal Carmon

Magnons are electrically neutral bosonic quasiparticles emerging as collective spin excitations of magnetically ordered materials, and play a central role in the next-generation spintronics owing to its obviating Joule heating. A difficult…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-01 YuanDong Wang , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

Magnons, the quanta of collective spin excitations in magnetically ordered materials, have distinct properties that make them uniquely appealing for quantum information applications. They can have ultra-small wavelengths down to the…

We experimentally demonstrate strong magnon-magnon coupling by thermal spin excitations in yttrium iron garnet/permalloy (YIG/Py) hybrid structures using microfocused Brillouin light scattering - an optical technique that enables the…

Using time-of-flight and triple-axis inelastic neutron spectroscopy, we determine spin wave excitations throughout the Brillouin zone for ferromagnetic manganites La$_{1-x}$Ca$_x$MnO$_3$ ($x=0.25,0.3$) in their low temperature metallic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Ye , Pengcheng Dai , J. A. Fernandez-Baca , D. T. Adroja , T. G. Perring , Y. Tomioka , Y. Tokura

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

The magnetic excitations in ferromagnetic SrRuO$_3$ were studied by inelastic neutron scattering combining experiments on triple-axis and time-of-flight spectrometers with and without polarization analysis. A quadratic spin-wave dispersion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-07 K. Jenni , S. Kunkemöller , A. Tewari , R. A. Ewings , Y. Sidis , A. Schneidewind , P. Steffens , A. A. Nugroho , M. Braden

Brillouin light scattering in ferromagnetic materials usually involves one magnon and two photons and their total angular momentum is conserved. Here, we experimentally demonstrate the presence of a helicity-changing two-magnon Brillouin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 R. Hisatomi , A. Noguchi , R. Yamazaki , Y. Nakata , A. Gloppe , Y. Nakamura , K. Usami

We demonstrate direct probing of strong magnon-photon coupling using Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy in a planar geometry. The magnonic hybrid system comprises a split-ring resonator loaded with epitaxial yttrium iron garnet thin…

A ferromagnetic sphere can support \textit{optical vortices} in forms of whispering gallery modes and \textit{magnetic quasi-vortices} in forms of magnetostatic modes with non-trivial spin textures. These vortices can be characterized by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 A. Osada , A. Gloppe , R. Hisatomi , A. Noguchi , R. Yamazaki , M. Nomura , Y. Nakamura , K. Usami

We present the observation of a complete bandgap and collective spin wave excitation in two-dimensional magnonic crystals comprised of arrays of nanoscale antidots and nanodots, respectively. Considering that the frequencies dealt with here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 D. Kumar , J. W. Kłos , M. Krawczyk , A. Barman

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 study theoretically and experimentally the process of Brillouin light scattering on an array of silicon disks on a thin Permalloy layer. We show that phase-resolved Brillouin light scattering microscopy performed on an array of weakly…

Rigidity of an ordered phase in condensed matter results in collective excitation modes spatially extending in macroscopic dimensions. Magnon is a quantum of an elementary excitation in the ordered spin system, such as ferromagnet. Being…

We explore the magnetic excitations of the spin-1/2 triangular antiferromagnet Ba3CoSb2O9 in its 120 degree ordered phase using single-crystal high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering. Sharp magnons with no decay are observed throughout…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 David Macdougal , Stephanie Williams , Dharmalingam Prabhakaran , Robert I. Bewley , David J. Voneshen , Radu Coldea

We report an experimental study of spin wave modes in individual cylindrical nanowires, a textbook situation of confined spin waves in 3D nanomagnetism. We observe discrete modes of thermal spin waves with micro-Brillouin light scattering,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Niklas Martin , Laura Álvaro-Gómez , Lucas Perez , André Thiaville , Jean-Paul Adam , Olivier Fruchart , Aurélien Masseboeuf

Recent advances in magnonics highlight the need for employing spin wave characteristics as new state variables, which is to be detected and mapped out with high precision in all-onchip, small scale devices. Spin wave modes that are prompted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Junming Wu , Dinesh Wagle , Yuzan Xiong , Andrew Christy , Yi Li , Shihao Zhou , James F. Cahoon , Xufeng Zhang , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch , Wei Zhang

We report the optical detection of magnons with a broad range of wavevectors in magnetic insulator Y3Fe5O12 thin films by proximate nitrogen-vacancy (NV) single-spin sensors. Through multi-magnon scattering processes, the excited magnons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Eric Lee-Wong , Ruolan Xue , Feiyang Ye , Andreas Kreisel , Toeno van der Sar , Amir Yacoby , Chunhui Rita Du