The building blocks of magnonics

By B. Lenk, H. Ulrichs, F. Garbs, M. Munzenberg. 2011

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Abstract Novel material properties can be realized by designing waves’ dispersion relations in artificial crystals. The crystal’s structural length scales may range from nano- (light) up to centimeters (sound waves). Because of their emergent properties these materials are called metamaterials. Different to photonics, where the dielectric constant dominantly determines the index of refraction, in a ferromagnet the spin-wave index of refraction can be dramatically changed already by the magnetization direction. This allows a different flexibility in realizing dynamic wave guides or spin-wave switches. The present review will give an introduction into the novel functionalities of spin-wave devices, concepts for spin-wave based computing and magnonic crystals. The parameters of the magnetic metamaterials are adjusted to the spin-wave k -vector such that the magnonic band structure is designed. However, already the elementary building block of an antidot lattice, the singular hole, owns a strongly varying internal potential determined by its magnetic dipole field and a localization of spin-wave modes. Photo-magnonics reveal a way to investigate the control over the interplay between localization and delocalization of the spin-wave modes using femtosecond lasers, which is a major focus of this review. We will discuss the crucial parameters to realize free Bloch states and how, by contrast, a controlled localization might allow us to gradually turn on and manipulate spin-wave interactions in spin-wave based devices in the future.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Magnetization oscillations and waves driven by pure spin currents (2016, background): “Electronically-controlled local generation of spin waves is particularly important for the emerging field of nanomagnonics, which utilizes propagating spin waves as the medium for the transmission and processing of signals, logic operations, and pattern recognition on nanoscale [20,24-30].”
Micro-focused Brillouin light scattering: imaging spin waves at the nanoscale (2015, background): “A major motivation that drives the further development of BLS microscopy is the field of magnonics [2–7].”
Roadmap on STIRAP applications (2019, background): “The field of magnonics [70, 71] aims to create novel applications based on magnons, similar to the way that the field of photonics uses photons.”