Spin wave localization and guiding by magnon band structure engineering in yttrium iron garnet
arXiv:1803.04943 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.064411
Abstract
In spintronics the propagation of spin-wave excitations in magnetically ordered materials can also be used to transport and process information. One of the most popular materials in this regard is the ferrimagnetic insulator yttrium-iron-garnet due its exceptionally small spin-wave damping parameter. While the small relaxation rate allows for large propagation length of magnetic excitations, it also leads to non-locality of the magnetic properties. By imaging spin waves their band structure is mapped. In doing so wave vector selection is shown to suppress dispersion effects to a large extent allowing for local measurements of spin relaxation. Moreover we demonstrate even higher control of magnon propagation by employing the wave vector selectivity near an avoided crossing of different spin-wave modes where the group velocity approaches zero. Here local engineering of the dispersion allows constructing magnonic waveguides and at the same time reveals the local relaxation properties.
18 pages, 5 figures
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