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Publications (30)

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

A spinwave Ising machine

Artem Litvinenko, Roman Khymyn, Victor H. González +4

We demonstrate a spin-wave-based time-multiplexed Ising Machine (SWIM), implemented using a 5 m thick Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) film and off-the-shelf microwave components. The…

physics.app-ph2018

Spintronic nano-scale harvester of broadband microwave energy

Bin Fang, Mario Carpentieri, Steven Louis +15

The harvesting of ambient radio-frequency (RF) energy is an attractive and clean way to realize the idea of self-powered electronics. Here we present a design for a microwave energ…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018

Ultra-fast artificial neuron: generation of picosecond-duration spikes in a current-driven antiferromagnetic auto-oscillator

Roman Khymyn, Ivan Lisenkov, Jamie Voorheis +5

We demonstrate analytically and numerically, that a thin film of an antiferromagnetic (AFM) material, having biaxial magnetic anisotropy and being driven by an external spin-transf…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Interface-Induced Phenomena in Magnetism

Frances Hellman, Axel Hoffmann, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak +24

This article reviews static and dynamic interfacial effects in magnetism, focusing on interfacially-driven magnetic effects and phenomena associated with spin-orbit coupling and in…

physics.app-ph2025

A CMOS+X Spiking Neuron With On-Chip Machine Learning

Steven Louis, Matthew Blake Abramson, Hannah Bradley +8

We present the design and numerical simulation of a spiking neuron capable of on-chip machine learning. Built within the CMOS+X framework, the spiking neuron consists of an NMOS tr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Artificial neurons based on antiferromagnetic auto-oscillators as a platform for neuromorphic computing

Hannah Bradley, Steven Louis, Cody Trevillian +4

Spiking artificial neurons emulate the voltage spikes of biological neurons, and constitute the building blocks of a new class of energy efficient, neuromorphic computing systems.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Vector Hamiltonian Formalism for Nonlinear Magnetization Dynamics

Vasyl Tyberkevych, Andrei Slavin, Petro Artemchuk +1

Vector Hamiltonian formalism (VHF) for the description of a weakly nonlinear magnetization dynamics has been developed. Transformation from the traditional Landau-Lifshitz equation…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008

Ferromagnetic resonance force spectroscopy of individual sub-micron size samples

Olivier Klein, G. De Loubens, V. V. Naletov +7

We review how a magnetic resonance force microscope (MRFM) can be applied to perform ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectroscopy of \emph{individual} sub-micron size samples. We res…

cond-mat.mes-hall2009

Resonant Nonlinear Damping of Quantized Spin Waves in Ferromagnetic Nanowires

Carl Boone, Jordan Katine, Jeff Childress +5

We use spin torque ferromagnetic resonance to measure the spectral properties of dipole-exchange spin waves in permalloy nanowires. Our measurements reveal that geometric confineme…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Bias-free spin-wave phase shifter for magnonic logic

Steven Louis, Ivan Lisenkov, Sergey Nikitov +2

A design of a magnonic phase shifter operating without an external bias magnetic field is proposed. The phase shifter uses a localized collective spin wave mode propagating along a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Theoretical formalism for collective spin-wave edge excitations in arrays of dipolarly interacting magnetic nanodots

Ivan Lisenkov, Vasyl Tyberkevych, Sergey Nikitov +1

A general theory of edge spin wave excitations in semi-infinite and finite periodic arrays of magnetic nanodots existing in a spatially uniform magnetization ground state is develo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Interaction of microwave photons with nanostructured magnetic metasurfaces

Ivan Lisenkov, Vasyl Tyberkevych, Luke Levin-Pompetski +4

A theoretical formalism for the description of the interaction of microwave photons with a thin (compared to the photon wavelength) magnetic metasurface comprised of dipolarly inte…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Antiferromagnetic THz-frequency Josephson-like Oscillator Driven by Spin Current

Roman Khymyn, Ivan Lisenkov, Vasyl Tiberkevich +2

The development of compact and tunable room temperature sources of coherent THz-frequency signals would open a way for numerous new applications. The existing approaches to THz-fre…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015

Three-dimensional Character of the Magnetization Dynamics in Magnetic Vortex Structures - Hybridization of Flexure Gyromodes with Spin Waves

Matthias Noske, Hermann Stoll, Manfred Fähnle +8

Three-dimensional linear spin-wave eigenmodes of a Permalloy disk having finite thickness are studied by micromagnetic simulations based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. Th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Adaptive Ising machine based on phase-locking of an auto-oscillator to a bi-harmonic external driving with noise

Eleonora Raimondo, Andrea Grimaldi, Vasyl Tyberkevych +6

We introduce a universal theory of phase auto-oscillators driven by a bi harmonic signal (having frequency components close to single and double of the free-running oscillator freq…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Spin wave mediated unidirectional Vortex Core Reversal by Two Orthogonal Monopolar Field Pulses: The Essential Role of Three-dimensional Magnetization Dynamics

Matthias Noske, Hermann Stoll, Manfred Fähnle +8

Scanning transmission x-ray microscopy is employed to investigate experimentally the reversal of the magnetic vortex core polarity in cylindrical Ni81Fe19 nanodisks triggered by tw…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009

Oscillatory transient regime in the forced dynamics of a spin torque nano-oscillator

Yan Zhou, Vasil Tiberkevich, Ezio Iacocca +2

We demonstrate that the transient non-autonomous dynamics of a spin torque nano-oscillator (STNO) under a radio-frequency (rf) driving signal is qualitatively different from the dy…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Generation of Ultra-Broadband Frequency Comb in Strongly Bistable Nonlinear Magnonic Resonator

Yu Jiang, Vasyl Tyberkevych, Yizhong Huang +4

Magnonic frequency combs (MFCs) offer a promising route to compact, energy-efficient platforms for on-chip coherent microwave signal generation and processing. Conventional on-chip…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Low Power Microwave Signal Detection With a Spin-Torque Nano-Oscillator in the Active Self-Oscillating Regime

Steven Louis, Vasyl Tyberkevych, Jia Li +6

A spin-torque nano-oscillator (STNO) driven by a ramped bias current can perform spectrum analysis quickly over a wide frequency bandwidth. The STNO spectrum analyzer operates by i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018

Micromagnetic modeling of Terahertz oscillations in an antiferromagnetic material driven by spin-Hall effect

Vito Puliafito, Roman Khymyn, Mario Carpentieri +4

The realization of THz sources is a fundamental aspect for a wide range of applications. Over different approaches, compact THz oscillators can be realized taking advantage of dyna…

cs.NE2024

Pattern recognition using spiking antiferromagnetic neurons

Hannah Bradley, Steven Louis, Andrei Slavin +1

Spintronic devices offer a promising avenue for the development of nanoscale, energy-efficient artificial neurons for neuromorphic computing. It has previously been shown that with…

cond-mat.other2011

Noise properties of a resonance-type spin-torque microwave detector

Oleksandr Prokopenko, Gennadiy Melkov, Elena Bankowski +3

We analyze performance of a resonance-type spin-torque microwave detector (STMD) in the presence of noise and reveal two distinct regimes of STMD operation. In the first (high-freq…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Reconfigurable nano-scale spin-wave directional coupler

Qi Wang, Philipp Pirro, Roman Verba +3

A spin-wave (SW) directional coupler comprised of two laterally parallel nano-scale dipolarly-coupled SW waveguides is proposed and studied using micromagnetic simulations and anal…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

Theory of three-magnon interaction in a vortex-state magnetic nanodot

Roman Verba, Lukas Körber, Katrin Schultheiss +3

We use vector Hamiltonian formalism (VHF) to study theoretically three-magnon parametric interaction (or three-wave splitting) in a magnetic disk existing in a magnetic vortex grou…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2007

Microwave power generated by a spin-torque oscillator in the presence of noise

Vasil Tiberkevich, Joo-Von Kim, Andrei Slavin

An expression for the microwave power generated by a spin-torque oscillator in the presence of thermal noise is derived. This expression, when used in a subcritical regime, demonst…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018

Ultra-fast wide band spectrum analyzer based on a rapidly tuned spin-torque nano-oscillator

Steven Louis, Olga Sulymenko, Vasyl Tyberkevych +7

A spintronic method of ultra-fast broadband microwave spectrum analysis is proposed. It uses a rapidly tuned spin torque nano-oscillator (STNO), and does not require injection lock…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2007

Spectroscopy of the parametric magnons excited by 4-wave process

G. De Loubens, V. V. Naletov, Vincent Charbois +3

Using a Magnetic Resonace Force Microscope, we have performed ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectroscopy on parametric magnons created by 4-wave process. This is achieved by measur…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010

Parametric excitation of a magnetic nanocontact by a microwave field

Sergei Urazhdin, Vasyl Tiberkevich, Andrei Slavin

We demonstrate that magnetic oscillations of a current-biased magnetic nanocontact can be parametrically excited by a microwave field applied at twice the resonant frequency of the…

physics.app-ph2021

Ultra-fast GHz-range swept-tuned spectrum analyzer with 20 ns temporal resolution based on a spin-torque nano-oscillator with a uniformly magnetized 'free' layer

Artem Litvinenko, Ahmed Sidi El Valli, Vadym Iurchuk +5

The advantage of an ultra-fast frequency-tunability of spin-torque nano-oscillators (STNOs) that have large (> 100MHz) relaxation frequency of amplitude fluctuations is exploited t…

physics.app-ph2025

Spintronic Neuron Using a Magnetic Tunnel Junction for Low-Power Neuromorphic Computing

Steven Louis, Hannah Bradley, Cody Trevillian +2

This paper proposes a novel spiking artificial neuron design based on a combined spin valve/magnetic tunnel junction (SV/MTJ). Traditional hardware used in artificial intelligence…