Impact of spin torques and spin pumping phenomena on magnon-plasmon polaritons in antiferromagnetic insulator-semiconductor heterostructures
arXiv:2403.06934 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.109.214436
Abstract
We investigate the impact of spin torque and spin pumping on the surface magnon polariton dispersion in a antiferromagnetic insulator-semiconductor heterostructure. In the bilayer system, the surface magnon polaritons conventionally couple to the plasma-oscillations in the semiconductor via electromagnetic fields. Additionally, magnons in the antiferromagnetic insulator layer may interact with the semiconductor layer via spin torques and their reciprocal phenomena of spin pumping. Due to the spin-to-charge conversion from the spin Hall and inverse spin Hall effects in the semiconductor layer with a strong spin-orbit coupling, this can couple the magnons to the plasmons in the semiconductor layer. Our research reveals that modifications in the mode frequency and the hybridization gap induced by these phenomena depend on the thickness of the antiferromagnetic layer. In thick layers, the spin-pumping contribution to the frequency shift and damping is inversely proportional to the wavelength, while in thin layers it is inversely proportional to the thickness. Furthermore, hybridization of the surface magnon polariton and dispersive magnons in the antiferromagnet is shown to depend on both the thickness and wavelength of the modes.
arXiv comment14 pages, 6 figures
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