2 research outputs found
G\ae{}nice: a general model for magnon band structure of artificial spin ices
Arrays of artificial spin ices exhibit reconfigurable ferromagnetic resonance
frequencies that can be leveraged and designed for potential
applications.However, analytical and numerical studies of the frequency
response of artificial spin ices have remained somewhat limited due to the need
of take into account nonlocal dipole fields in theoretical calculations or by
long computation times in micromagnetic simulations. Here, we introduce
Gaenice, a framework to compute magnon dispersion relations of arbitrary
artificial spin ice configurations. Gaenice makes use of a tight-binding
approach to compute the magnon bands. It also provides the user complete
control of the interaction terms included, e.g., external field, anisotropy,
exchange, and dipole, making it useful also to compute ferromagnetic resonances
for a variety of structures, such as multilayers and ensembles of weakly or
non-interacting nanoparticles. Because it relies on a semi-analytical model,
Gaenice is computationally inexpensive and efficient, making it an attractive
tool for the exploration of large parameter spaces
Ultrastrong Magnon-Magnon Coupling and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in a 3D Magnonic Metamaterial
Strongly-interacting nanomagnetic arrays are ideal systems for exploring the
frontiers of magnonic control. They provide functional reconfigurable platforms
and attractive technological solutions across storage, GHz communications and
neuromorphic computing. Typically, these systems are primarily constrained by
their range of accessible states and the strength of magnon coupling phenomena.
Increasingly, magnetic nanostructures have explored the benefits of expanding
into three dimensions. This has broadened the horizons of magnetic microstate
spaces and functional behaviours, but precise control of 3D states and dynamics
remains challenging.
Here, we introduce a 3D magnonic metamaterial, compatible with
widely-available fabrication and characterisation techniques. By combining
independently-programmable artificial spin-systems strongly coupled in the
z-plane, we construct a reconfigurable 3D metamaterial with an exceptionally
high 16N microstate space and intense static and dynamic magnetic coupling. The
system exhibits a broad range of emergent phenomena including ultrastrong
magnon-magnon coupling with normalised coupling rates of and magnon-magnon cooperativity up to C = 126.4, GHz
mode shifts in zero applied field and chirality-selective magneto-toroidal
microstate programming and corresponding magnonic spectral control