Time-Varying Strong Coupling and Its Induced Time Diffraction of Magnon Modes

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates the first observation of time diffraction of magnon modes induced by a time-varying strong coupling, enabling novel wave manipulations and potential applications in magnetic devices.

Contribution

It introduces a method to achieve and characterize time-varying strong magnon coupling and demonstrates double-slit time diffraction in magnonic systems.

Findings

Observation of Rabi-like oscillation beat changes near pulse edges

Frequency conversion of magnon modes via time-varying coupling

First demonstration of double-slit time diffraction of magnons

Abstract

Time-varying media break the temporal translation symmetry of wave propagation in materials, enabling advanced wave manipulations. However, this novel phenomenon has been rarely explored in magnonic systems due to the significant challenge of achieving a sudden and prominent change in magnon dispersion within materials. Here, we construct a time-varying strong coupling between two magnon modes, and observe a change in the beats of Rabi-like oscillations near the pulse edges. Using a frequency-comb spectroscopy technique developed in this work, we characterize the frequency conversion of magnon modes induced by the time-varying strong-coupling effect. Moreover, we construct time slits with adjacent time interfaces and demonstrate, for the first time, the double-slit time diffraction of magnon modes, analogous to the well-known Young's double-slit experiment. These findings rely solely on the time-varying strong magnon coupling, independent of device reconfiguration. Our results open avenues for applications such as all-magnetic mixers or on-chip GHz sources.