Cavity magnomechanical coupling with coupled magnon modes in a synthetic antiferromagnet

Abstract

On-chip cavity magnomechanics is an emerging field exploring acoustic and magnonic functionalities of various ferromagnetic materials and structures using strongly confined phonons. It is expected that such cavity magnomechanics can be extended to multilayer ferromagnets, especially synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs) that exhibit zero net magnetization through interlayer exchange coupling. However, the conventional theoretical framework for a single ferromagnet cannot be used directly because of the antiferromagnetic magnetization dynamics associated with the interlayer exchange coupling. In this paper, we theoretically investigate phonon-magnon coupling with a three-layer SAF. Our formulation of the phonon-magnon coupling constants reveals that the acoustic (optical) magnon mode dominantly couples to the cavity phonon when the magnetization angles in the two ferromagnetic layers are antiparallel (orthogonal). Moreover, numerical calculations including the effects of dipole-dipole interactions and in-plane uniaxial magnetic anisotropy allow us to predict phonon frequency shifts and linewidth broadening that can be detected in experiments. These theoretical insights would greatly help us to make a strategy for bringing the system into the strong coupling regime and to devise novel control protocols in analogy to cavity quantum electrodynamics and cavity optomechanics.

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