Nonreciprocal Spin Waves in Nanoscale Domain Walls Detected by Scanning X-ray Microscopy in Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropic Fe/Gd Multilayers
arXiv:2311.06186 · doi:10.1002/adma.202508181
Abstract
Spin wave nonreciprocity in domain walls (DWs) allows for unidirectional signal processing in reconfigurable magnonic circuits. Using scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM), we examined coherently-excited magnons propagating in Bloch-like DWs in amorphous Fe/Gd multilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA). Near 1 GHz we detected magnons with short wavelengths down to nm in DWs whose minimum width amounted to nm. Consistent with micromagnetic simulations, the STXM data reveal their nonreciprocal magnon band structures. We identified Bloch points which disrupted the phase evolution of magnons and induced different adjacent to the topological defects. Our observations provide direct evidence of nonreciprocal spin waves within Bloch-like DWs, serving as programmable waveguides in magnonic devices with directed information flow.
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- Nonreciprocal Spin Waves in Nanoscale Domain Walls Detected by Scanning X-ray Microscopy in Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropic Fe/Gd Multilayers