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Single-electron transport driven by surface acoustic waves (SAW) through a narrow constriction, formed in two-dimensional electron gas, is studied theoretically. Due to long-range Coulomb interaction, the tunneling coupling between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karsten Flensberg , Qian Niu , Michael Pustilnik

Filtering surface acoustic wave (SAW) signals of specified frequencies depending on the strength of an external magnetic field in a magnetostrictive material has garnered significant interest due to its potential scientific and industrial…

The extent to which non-reciprocal waves can be guided in arbitrary directions is an interesting question. We address one aspect of this problem by studying the propagation of acoustic spin waves in a narrow physical conduit made of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-13 Jean-Paul Adam , Nathalie Bardou , Aurélie Solignac , Joo-Von Kim , Thibaut Devolder

We investigate the propagation of a piezoelectric surface acoustic wave (SAW) across a GaAs/Al$_X$Ga$_{1-X}$As heterostructure surface, on which there is fixed a metallic split-gate. Our method is based on a finite element formulation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Rahman , M. Kataoka , C. H. W. Barnes , H. P. Langtangen

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) coupled to magnons have attracted much attention because they allow for the long-range transport of magnetic information which cannot be achieved by magnon alone. We employed pulsed laser interferometry to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-30 Kazuki Maezawa , Shun Fujii , Kazuto Yamanoi , Yukio Nozaki , Shinichi Watanabe

From radio-electronics signal analysis to biological samples actuation, surface acoustic waves (SAW) are involved in a multitude of modern devices. Despite this versatility, SAW transducers developed up to date only authorize the synthesis…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-23 Antoine Riaud , Jean-Louis Thomas , Eric Charron , Adrien Bussonnière , Olivier Bou Matar , Michaël Baudoin

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) provide an efficient dynamical coupling between strain and magnetization in micro/nano-metric devices. Using a hybrid device composed of a piezoelectric, GaAs, and a ferromagnetic Heusler alloy thin film,…

It has recently been demonstrated that surface acoustic waves (SAWs) can interact with superconducting qubits at the quantum level. SAW resonators in the GHz frequency range have also been found to have low loss at temperatures compatible…

Coupling and hybridization of different elementary excitations leads to new functionalities. In phononics and spintronics, magnetoelastic coupling between Rayleigh-type surface acoustic wave (SAW) and spin wave (SW) has recently attracted…

An analytical and numerical approach is developped to pinpoint the optimal experimental conditions to irreversibly switch magnetization using surface acoustic waves (SAWs). The layers are magnetized perpendicular to the plane and two…

A non-magnetic layer can inject spin-polarized currents into an adjacent ferromagnetic layer via spin vorticity coupling (SVC), inducing spin wave resonance (SWR). In this work, we present the theoretical model of SWR generated by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Mingxian Huang , Wenbin Hu , Huaiwu Zhang , Feiming Bai

We perform explicit time-dependent classical and quantum propagation of a spatially indirect exciton (SIX) driven by surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in a semiconductor heterostructure device. We model the SIX dynamics at different levels of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 Federico Grasselli , Andrea Bertoni , Guido Goldoni

We model a gyroscope that exploits quantum effects in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate to gain a tunable enhancement in precision. Current inertial navigation systems rely on the Sagnac effect using unentangled photons in fibre-optic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 J. P. Cooling , J. A. Dunningham

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) provide a contactless method for measuring the wavevector-dependent conductivity. This technique has been used to discover emergent length scales in the fractional quantum Hall regime of traditional,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Yawen Fang , Yang Xu , Kaifei Kang , Benyamin Davaji , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Amit Lal , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan , B. J. Ramshaw

When a surface acoustic wave propagates on the surface of a GaAs semiconductor, coupling between electrons in the two-dimensional electron gas beneath the interface and the elastic host crystal through piezoelectric interaction will…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Shi-Jie Yang , Hu Zhao , Yue Yu

The interaction of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) with liquids enables the production of aerosols with adjustable droplet sizes in the micrometer range expelled from a very compact source. Understanding the nonlinear acousto-hydrodynamics of…

Hybrid mechanical-superconducting systems for quantum information processing have attracted significant attention due to their potential applications. In such systems, the weak coupling regime, dominated by dissipation, has been extensively…

Kinetic Alfv\'en Waves (KAWs) are generated in magnetized space and laboratory plasmas due to a continuous shear Alfv\'en wave (SAW) spectrum and, unlike SAWs, are characterized by microscale perpendicular structures of the order of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Livio De Fabrizio

Acoustic waves have emerged as versatile on-chip information carriers with applications ranging from microwave filters to transducers. Nonreciprocal devices are desirable for the control and routing of high-frequency phonons. This is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Linbo Shao , Wenbo Mao , Smarak Maity , Neil Sinclair , Yaowen Hu , Lan Yang , Marko Lončar

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs), with their five orders-of-magnitude slower propagation velocity, allow for considerably shorter wavelengths at the same frequency compared to electromagnetic waves. The short wavelengths allow for device…