Role of additional microwave voltage on phase locking in voltage-controlled parametric oscillator

TL;DR

This paper investigates how applying an additional microwave voltage influences phase locking in voltage-controlled parametric oscillators, revealing potential for phase manipulation through analytical and numerical methods.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to control phase locking in voltage-controlled parametric oscillators using an additional microwave voltage, supported by analytical and numerical analysis.

Findings

Additional microwave voltage stabilizes one phase over the other.

The locked rate depends on the phase of the additional voltage in a trigonometric manner.

Phase manipulation is possible via the additional microwave voltage.

Abstract

A demonstration of parametric oscillation of magnetization in nanostructured ferromagnets via voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) effect provided an alternative approach to spintronic oscillator applications with low-energy consumption. However, the phase of this voltage-controlled parametric oscillator was unable to be locked uniquely by microwave VCMA effect. The oscillation phase is locked in one of two possible states, which originates from the fact that the frequency of the microwave voltage is twice that of the magnetization oscillation. In this work, we investigate the phase locking by additional microwave voltage through analytical and numerical studies of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. An analytical study suggests that the additional voltage makes one of two phases more stable than the other by having asymmetric potential for the phase. The simulation results indicate a trigonometric-function-like dependence of the locked rate on the phase of the additional voltage, which qualitatively agrees with the analytical theory and also suggests a possibility to manipulate the phase by the additional voltage.