Magnetoelastic coupling in stripe-domain states of yttrium iron garnet

Abstract

We study magnetoelastic coupling in stripe-domain magnetic states of $3\mu \mathrm{m}$-thick YIG thin films grown on a GGG substrate. Broadband ferromagnetic resonance reveals low-frequency stripe-domain magnon branches modulated by a field-independent phonon comb with a frequency spacing of $3.5\mathrm{MHz}$, matching the value predicted for confined thickness-shear modes of the GGG substrate. Analytical fitting yields coupling rates that vary between $0.33$--$0.54\mathrm{MHz}$ and cooperativities of order $10^{-1}$, indicating that the system is in the weak-coupling regime without resolvable avoided-crossing gaps. Magnon-phonon mode-overlap calculations using finite-element simulations show that the weak coupling arises from phase and domain-sign cancellation: the local magnetoelastic coupling is sizable, but more than $99\%$ of the coherent overlap cancels across the stripe texture. Fully coupled simulations further demonstrate phonon-mediated excitation of a remote YIG layer and show that efficient propagating-phonon generation requires spatially asymmetric magnon modes, establishing magnetic texture as a control parameter for magnon--phonon coupling.

9 pages, 5 figures