Propagating magnetic droplet solitons as moveable nanoscale spin-wave sources with tunable direction of emission
arXiv:2001.08967 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.024040
Abstract
Magnetic droplets are strongly nonlinear and localized spin-wave solitons that can be formed in current-driven nanocontacts. Here, we propose a simple way to launch droplets in an inhomogeneous nanoscopic waveguide. We use the drift motion of a droplet and show that in a system with broken translational symmetry, the droplet acquires a linear momentum and propagates. We find that the droplet velocity can be tuned via the strength of the break in symmetry and the size of the nanocontact. In addition, we demonstrate that the launched droplet can propagate up to several micrometers in a realistic system with reasonable damping. Finally, we demonstrate how an annihilating droplet delivers its momentum to a highly nonreciprocal spin-wave burst with a tunable wave vector with nanometer wavelengths. Such a propagating droplet can be used as a moveable spin-wave source in nanoscale magnonic networks. The presented method enables full control of the spin-wave emission direction, which can largely extend the freedom to design integrated magnonic circuits with a single spin-wave source.
11 pages, 7 figures
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