All electrical coherent control of the magnetization in thin Yittrium Iron Garnet film

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates all-electrical coherent control of magnetization in a YIG thin film using ultrashort magnetic field pulses, enabling precise manipulation and measurement of ferromagnetic resonance.

Contribution

It introduces a novel all-electrical method for controlling and determining magnetization precession with high accuracy, surpassing traditional Fourier analysis.

Findings

Magnetization precession can be enhanced or suppressed by adjusting pulse delay.

The method achieves high-precision determination of precession frequency.

Simulations confirm experimental control of magnetization dynamics.

Abstract

We demonstrate coherent control of time domain ferromagnetic resonance by all electrical excitation and detection. Using two ultrashort magnetic field steps with variable time delay we control the induction decay in yttrium iron garnet (YIG). By setting suitable delay times between the two steps the precession of the magnetization can either be enhanced or completely stopped. The method allows for a determination of the precession frequency within a few precession periods and with an accuracy much higher than can be achieved using fast fourier transformation. Moreover it holds the promise to massively increase precession amplitudes in pulsed inductive microwave magnetometry (PIMM) using low amplitude finite pulse trains. Our experiments are supported by micromagnetic simulations which nicely confirm the experimental results.