Highly efficient coherent amplification of zero-field spin waves in YIG nano-waveguides

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates a highly efficient method to amplify spin waves in YIG nano-waveguides at zero magnetic field, advancing magnonic technology for nanoscale information processing.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach using local parametric pumping to coherently amplify spin waves in YIG nano-waveguides without external magnetic fields.

Findings

Achieved over 100-fold amplification of spin waves.

Demonstrated operation at zero bias magnetic field.

Used low power (a few milliwatts) for effective amplification.

Abstract

Transmission and processing of information at the nanoscale using spin waves and their quanta - magnons, offers numerous advantages and opportunities that make it a promising next-generation technology for integrated electronics. The main challenges that still need to be addressed to ensure high competitiveness of magnonic devices include finding ways to efficiently amplify spin waves in nanostructures and developing nanocircuits that can operate without the need for an external bias magnetic field. Here we demonstrate how these two challenges can be solved using nano-waveguides fabricated from a low-loss magnetic insulator. We show that by using local parametric pumping with a power of only a few milliwatts, one can achieve coherent amplification of spin-wave pulses by more than two orders of magnitude at zero bias magnetic field. Our results provide a simple solution to problems that have long prevented the implementation of efficient integrated magnonic circuits.