Excitation of whispering gallery magnons in a magnetic vortex

TL;DR

This paper investigates the excitation of whispering gallery magnons in magnetic vortices using nonlinear 3-magnon scattering, aiming to enable efficient generation of high wave vector magnons in circular geometries.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to excite whispering gallery magnons through nonlinear 3-magnon scattering in a circular magnetic system.

Findings

Demonstrated the feasibility of exciting whispering gallery magnons via 3-magnon scattering.

Provided experimental and theoretical analysis of the nonlinear excitation mechanism.

Identified conditions under which whispering gallery magnons can be efficiently generated.

Abstract

One of the most fascinating topics in current quantum physics are hybridised systems, in which different quantum resonators are strongly coupled. Prominent examples are circular resonators with high quality factors that allow the coupling of optical whispering gallery modes to microwave cavities or magnon resonances in optomagnonics. Whispering gallery modes play a special role in this endeavour because of their high quality factor and strong localisation, which ultimately increases the overlap of the wavefunctions of quantum particles in hybridised systems. The hybridisation with magnons, the collective quantum excitations of the electron spins in a magnetically ordered material, is of particular interest because magnons can take over two functionalities: due to their collective nature they are robust and can serve as a quantum memory and, moreover, they can act as a wavelength converter between microwave and THz photons. However, the observation of whispering gallery magnons has not yet been achieved due to the lack of efficient excitation schemes for magnons with large wave vectors in a circular geometry. To tackle this problem, we studied nonlinear 3-magnon scattering as a means to generate whispering gallery magnons. This Letter discusses the basics of this nonlinear mechanism in a confined, circular geometry from experimental and theoretical point of view.