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Three-wave scattering is a fascinating phenomenon with many applications in various technologies. Reducing the system symmetry greatly affects three-wave scattering, which, in this case, goes beyond the simple momentum conservation law. In…

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Magnonic topological phases realize chiral edge spin waves that are protected against backscattering, potentially enabling highly efficient spin transport. Here we show that the spin transport through these magnonic chiral edge states can…

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The reflection coefficient of bulk spin waves from multilayer ferromagnetic structure with periodically modulated parameters of exchange interaction, uniaxial and rhombic magnetic anisotropy and saturation magnetization is calculated with a…

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A strategy is proposed to realize robust transport in time reversal invariant photonic system. Using numerical simulation and microwave experiment, we demonstrate that a chiral guided mode in the channel of a three-dimensional dielectric…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-11 Wen-Jie Chen , Jian-Wen Dong , Zhi Hong Hang , Xiao Xiao , He-Zhou Wang , C. T. Chan

We demonstrate that the boundary of two optical isomers with opposite directions of the gyration vectors (both parallel to boundary) can support propagation of electromagnetic wave in the direction perpendicular to the gyration axes…

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Spin waves in perpendicularly-magnetized Pt/Co/AlO$_x$/Pt ultrathin films with varying Co thicknesses (0.6-1.2 nm) have been studied with Brillouin light spectroscopy in the Damon-Eshbach geometry. The measurements reveal a pronounced…

We show that Maxwell theory with a codimension-$1$ Chern-Simons interface supports chiral electromagnetic surface waves on the interface, even when the bulk theory on both sides is conventional vacuum electrodynamics in infinite space.…

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We study propagation of the Gaussian beam of spin waves and its reflection from the edge of thin yttrium-iron-garnet film with in-plane magnetization perpendicular to this edge. We have performed micromagnetic simulations supported by…

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The spin-wave dynamics in the thin CoFeB film in Damon-Eshbach geometry are studied in three cases of boundary conditions -- free boundary conditions, symmetrical surface anisotropy, and one-sided surface anisotropy. The analytical model…

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We argue that spin and valley-polarized metallic phases recently observed in graphene bilayers and trilayers support chiral edge modes that allow spin waves to propagate ballistically along system boundaries without backscattering. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Zhiyu Dong , Olumakinde Ogunnaike , Leonid Levitov

It has been found that in the media where the dielectric permittivity $\epsilon$ or the magnetic permeability $\mu$ is near zero and in transition metamaterials where $\epsilon$ or $\mu$ changes from positive to negative values, there occur…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-20 Seulong Kim , Kihong Kim

We report a non-contact mechanism for directional injection of magnons in magnetic films when driven by a spin accumulation $\pmb{\mu}_s$ of electrons of a nearby metallic layer, governed by the long-range dipolar coupling between magnons…

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Spin waves propagating in magnetic materials exhibit nonlinear behavior at large amplitudes due to the competition between excitation and relaxation, providing an attractive platform for exploring nonlinear wave dynamics. In particular,…

Relaxation of linear magnetization dynamics is well described by the viscous Gilbert damping processes. However, for strong excitations, nonlinear damping processes such as the decay via magnon-magnon interactions emerge and trigger…

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Recent advances on the stabilization and manipulation of chiral magnetization configurations in systems consisting in alternating atomic layers of ferromagnetic and non-magnetic materials hold promise of innovation in spintronics…

Conventional optical materials are characterized by either a dissipative response, which results in polarization-independent absorption, or by a gain response that leads to wave amplification. In this work, we study a peculiar class of…

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Ultrathin metallic ferromagnets on substrates with strong spin-orbit coupling can exhibit induced chiral interactions of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) form. For systems with perpendicular anisotropy, the presence of DM interactions has…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-17 Felipe Garcia-Sanchez , Pablo Borys , Arne Vansteenkiste , Joo-Von Kim , Robert L. Stamps

In this thesis, we study the collective modes induced by the chirality of elementary particles in magnetized media and their implications for neutron star phenomenology. We theoretically predict that the chiral magnetic wave can arise in…

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We investigated the spin-wave propagation in a micro-structured yttrium iron garnet waveguide of $40$ nm thickness. Utilizing spatially-resolved Brillouin light scattering microscopy, an exponential decay of the spin-wave amplitude of…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected nanoscale spin textures exhibiting fascinating physical behaviors. Recent observations of room temperature N\'eel-type skyrmions in magnetic multilayer films are an important step towards their…

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