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Additional high-frequency components of the pulsar radiation in Crab Nebula are considered as a result of the resonance with the surface electromagnetic wave at nonlinear reflection from of the neutron star surface.This stimulated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-05 V. M. Kontorovich , I. S. Spevak , V. K. Gavrikov

Magnon-phonon coupling has garnered increasing interest in condensed matter physics due to its fertile physics and potential applications in devices with novel functionalities. Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are commonly employed as a source…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-18 Takuya Kawada , Masashi Kawaguchi , Hiroki Matsumoto , Masamitsu Hayashi

Currents can induce spin excitations in antiferromagnets, even when they are insulating. We investigate how spin transfer can cause antiferromagnetic resonance in bilayers and trilayers that consist of one antiferromagnetic insulator and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Øyvind Johansen , Hans Skarsvåg , Arne Brataas

Many-body excitons in CrSBr are attracting intense interest in view of their highly anisotropic magneto-optical coupling and their potential for novel optical interfaces within spintronic and magnonic devices. Characterizing the orbital…

We demonstrate the efficient excitation of spin waves in the ultra-low magnetic damping material yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) by surface acoustic waves (SAWs). To this end, we employ interdigital transducers fabricated on a piezoelectric zinc…

Spin waves, the collective excitations of the magnetic order parameter, and magnons, the associated quasiparticles, are envisioned as possible data carriers in future wave-based computing architectures. On the road towards spin-wave…

We report on the tuning of magnetic interactions in superlattices composed of single and bilayer SrIrO$_3$ inter-spaced with SrTiO$_3$. Magnetic scattering shows predominately $c$-axis antiferromagnetic orientation of the magnetic moments…

We develop a microscopic theory of magnon-exciton drag effect in a bilayer van der Waals antiferromagnetic semiconductor CrSBr. Effective exciton-magnon coupling arises from an orbital mechanism: Magnons tilt the layer magnetizations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Zakhar A. Iakovlev , Akashdeep Kamra , Mikhail M. Glazov

Controlling the phase and amplitude of spin waves in magnetic insulators with an electric field opens the way to fast logic circuits with ultra-low power consumption. One way to achieve such control is to manipulate the magnetization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Rostyslav O. Serha , Vitaliy I. Vasyuchka , Alexander A. Serga , Burkard Hillebrands

Interdigitated transducers were used to generate and detect surface acoustic waves on a thin layer of (Ga,Mn)(As,P). The out-of-plane uniaxial magnetic anisotropy of this dilute magnetic semiconductor is very sensitive to the strain of the…

Magnetic materials show rich optical responses related to the magnetic order. These phenomena reflect the nature of their excitations, providing a powerful probe for the magnetic states and a way to control them. In recent years, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Masahiro Sato

We study the spin excitation spectra and the dynamical exchange coupling between iron adatoms on a Bi bilayer nanoribbon. We show that the topological character of the edge states is preserved in the presence of the magnetic adatoms.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-02 M. Costa , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , A. Fazzio , A. T. Costa

The possibility of a strain-induced transformation from $g$-wave to $d$-wave altermagnetism was recently recently proposed for MnTe using a $k\cdot p$ perturbative model. In this work, we demonstrate such a transition in CrSb for a wider…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-03 Bennet Karetta , Xanthe H. Verbeek , Rodrigo Jaeschke-Ubiergo , Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova

Moir\'e superlattices in twisted bilayers enable profound reconstructions of the electronic bandstructure, giving rise to correlated states with remarkable tunability. Extending this paradigm to van der Waals magnets, twisting creates…

Non-linear magnetization dynamics is essential for the operation of many spintronics devices. For microwave assisted switching of magnetic elements the low field regime is of particular interest. In addition a large number of experiments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Hans G. Bauer , Peter Majchrak , Torsten Kachel , Christian H. Back , Georg Woltersdorf

Unlike optical waves, acoustic waves in fluids are described by scalar pressure fields, and therefore are considered spinless. Here, we demonstrate experimentally the existence of spin in acoustics. In the interference of two acoustic waves…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-08-06 Chengzhi Shi , Rongkuo Zhao , Yang Long , Sui Yang , Yuan Wang , Hong Chen , Jie Ren , Xiang Zhang

We investigate generation of exchange magnons by ultrashort, picosecond acoustic pulses propagating through ferromagnetic thin films. Using the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations we derive the dispersion relation for exchange magnons for an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 V. Besse , A. V. Golov , V. S. Vlasov , A. Alekhin , D. Kuzmin , I. V. Bychkov , L. N. Kotov , V. V. Temnov

Interfaces between twisted 2D materials host a wealth of physical phenomena originating from the long-scale periodicity associated with the resulting moire structure. Besides twisting, an alternative route to create structures with…

Strengthening magnetoacoustic coupling is crucial to the improvement of the surface acoustic wave (SAW)-driven spintronics devices. A key challenge in enhancing magnetoacoustic coupling is minimizing the phonon and magnon dissipation of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Shuting Cui , Fa Chen , Liyang Liao , Jiacheng Lu , Rui Xiong , Xiaofei Yang , Yoshichika Otani , Yue Zhang , Wei Luo

The magnetic properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials have been attracting increasing attention in recent years due to their unique behavior and possible applications in new devices. One material of great interest is the 2D van der…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-08 Sergio M. Rezende , Byron Freelon , Roberto L. Rodríguez-Suárez