One dimensional Cherenkov processes in ferromagnetic insulator

TL;DR

This paper investigates one-dimensional Cherenkov processes in ferromagnetic insulators, revealing wave number dependent magnon-phonon interactions, their temperature dependence, and effects of thermal gradients on magnon-phonon temperature differences.

Contribution

It provides a theoretical analysis of magnon-phonon interactions in 1D ferromagnetic insulators, highlighting wave number and temperature dependencies of relaxation processes.

Findings

Magnon-phonon interaction channels are limited and wave number dependent.

Relaxation time of long wavelength magnons depends on wave number as 1/k^4.

The magnon-phonon relaxation rate increases linearly with temperature above 70 K.

Abstract

One dimensional Cherenkov processes in ferromagnetic isolators are studied with perturbation theory under the constraint condition of conservation of energy and momentum. It is shown that the magnon-phonon interaction channels are limited and wave number dependent, which result in respectively $1/k^{2}$ and $1/k^{4}$ dependence of the lifetime and the relaxation time of long wavelength magnons. The reciprocal of relaxation time between magnons and phonons, $1/\tau_{mp}$, is found to be a linearly increasing function of the temperature as $T>$ 70 K. Based on the Sanders-Walton model, we further show that when a thermal (phonon) gradient is applied along the system, the temperature difference between the phonon bath and the magnons with wave-vector $k$ becomes more pronounced as $k$ decreasing.