Perturbative Input-Output Theory of Floquet Cavity Magnonics and Magnon Energy Shifts

TL;DR

This paper introduces a perturbative input-output formalism for Floquet cavity magnonics, providing analytic spectra expressions, reproducing experimental sideband features, and predicting a significant, previously overlooked magnon energy shift due to Zeeman interactions.

Contribution

The paper develops a systematic perturbative approach to analyze Floquet cavity magnonics, including a novel prediction of a measurable magnon detuning caused by the modulation field.

Findings

Reproduces Floquet sideband structures observed experimentally.

Predicts a 0.8 GHz magnon detuning from Zeeman interactions.

Provides compact analytic expressions for spectra up to second order.

Abstract

We develop a perturbative input-output formalism to compute the reflectance and transmittance spectra of cavity magnonics systems subject to a Floquet modulation. The method exploits the strong hierarchy between the magnetic-dipole couplings transverse (drive field) and parallel (modulation field) to the static bias field, which naturally introduces the small parameter $\epsilon = (2Ns)^{-1/2}$ associated with the total spin $Ns$ of the ferromagnet. By organizing the cavity and magnon fields in a systematic expansion in $\epsilon$, we obtain compact analytic expressions for the spectra up to second order. Using these results, we reproduce the characteristic sideband structure observed in recent Floquet cavity electromagnonics experiments. Furthermore, accounting for the Zeeman interaction between the modulation field and the fully polarized ground state - a contribution typically neglected in previous treatments - we predict an additional magnon detuning of approximately $0.8\,\mathrm{GHz}$, independent of both modulation frequency and sample size and determined solely by the spatial volume occupied by the modulation field. This identifies a measurable and previously overlooked shift relevant for the interpretation and design of cavity magnonics experiments.