Electrical generation and detection of spin waves in a quantum Hall ferromagnet

TL;DR

This study demonstrates the excitation and detection of long-lived spin waves in quantum Hall ferromagnets using graphene, revealing their propagation across various magnetic phases and enabling deeper exploration of these exotic 2D systems.

Contribution

It introduces a novel method to excite and detect spin waves in quantum Hall ferromagnets, providing direct evidence of their long-distance propagation in different magnetic phases.

Findings

Confirmed long-distance spin wave propagation in quantum Hall ferromagnets.

Observed spin wave transmission across insulating canted antiferromagnetic phase.

Enabled experimental investigation of magnetic properties in 2D electron systems.

Abstract

Spin waves are collective excitations of magnetic systems. An attractive setting for studying long-lived spin-wave physics is the quantum Hall (QH) ferromagnet, which forms spontaneously in clean two-dimensional electron systems at low temperature and in a perpendicular magnetic field. We used out-of-equilibrium occupation of QH edge channels in graphene to excite and detect spin waves in magnetically ordered QH states. Our experiments provide direct evidence for long distance spin wave propagation through different ferromagnetic phases in the N=0 Landau level, as well as across the insulating canted antiferromagnetic phase. Our results will enable experimental investigation of the fundamental magnetic properties of these exotic two-dimensional electron systems.