Nonlocal detection of interlayer three-magnon coupling

TL;DR

This paper reports the experimental observation of nonlocal three-magnon scattering between spatially separated magnetic systems, revealing new insights into magnon interactions that could impact quantum information processing.

Contribution

It demonstrates nonlocal three-magnon scattering between separated magnetic systems, a novel phenomenon in magnonics, supported by experimental data and theoretical modeling.

Findings

Observation of nonlocal three-magnon scattering between CoFeB and YIG.

YIG magnons mainly in the first excited mode, scattering into the ground mode with increasing power.

Potential for quantum entanglement in magnonic circuits.

Abstract

A leading nonlinear effect in magnonics is the interaction that splits a high-frequency magnon into two low-frequency ones with conserved linear momentum. Here, we report experimental observation of nonlocal three-magnon scattering between spatially separated magnetic systems, viz. a CoFeB nanowire and an yttrium iron garnet (YIG) thin film. Above a certain threshold power of an applied microwave field, a CoFeB Kittel magnon splits into a pair of counter-propagating YIG magnons that induce voltage signals in Pt electrodes on each side, in excellent agreement with model calculations based on the interlayer dipolar interaction. The excited YIG magnon pairs reside mainly in the first excited (n=1) perpdendicular standing spin-wave mode. With increasing power, the n=1 magnons successively scatter into nodeless (n=0) magnons through a four-magnon process. Our results help to assess non-local scattering processes in magnonic circuits that may enable quantum entanglement between distant magnons for quantum information applications.