Comparison of Spin-Wave Modes in Connected and Disconnected Artificial Spin Ice Nanostructures Using Brillouin Light Scattering Spectroscopy.

Autor: Chaurasiya AK; Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block - JD, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700 106, India., Mondal AK; Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block - JD, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700 106, India., Gartside JC; Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom., Stenning KD; Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom., Vanstone A; Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom., Barman S; Institute of Engineering and Management, Sector-V, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700 091, India., Branford WR; Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.; London Centre for Nanotechnology, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom., Barman A; Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block - JD, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700 106, India.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: ACS nano [ACS Nano] 2021 Jul 27; Vol. 15 (7), pp. 11734-11742. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jun 16.
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c02537
Abstrakt: Artificial spin ice systems have seen burgeoning interest due to their intriguing physics and potential applications in reprogrammable memory, logic, and magnonics. Integration of artificial spin ice with functional magnonics is a relatively recent research direction, with a host of promising results. As the field progresses, direct in-depth comparisons of distinct artificial spin systems are crucial to advancing the field. While studies have investigated the effects of different lattice geometries, little comparison exists between systems comprising continuously connected nanostructures, where spin-waves propagate via dipole-exchange interaction, and systems with nanobars disconnected at vertices, where spin-wave propagation occurs via stray dipolar field. Gaining understanding of how these very different coupling methods affect both spin-wave dynamics and magnetic reversal is key for the field to progress and provides crucial system-design information including for future systems containing combinations of connected and disconnected elements. Here, we study the magnonic response of two kagome spin ices via Brillouin light scattering, a continuously connected system and a disconnected system with vertex gaps. We observe distinct high-frequency dynamics and magnetization reversal regimes between the systems, with key distinctions in spin-wave localization and mode quantization, microstate trajectory during reversal and internal field profiles. These observations are pertinent for the fundamental understanding of artificial spin systems and broader design and engineering of reconfigurable functional magnonic crystals.
Databáze: MEDLINE