Nanomagnets are widely used to store information in non-volatile spintronic devices.Spin waves can transfer information with low-power consumption as their propagations are independent of charge transport.However,to d...Nanomagnets are widely used to store information in non-volatile spintronic devices.Spin waves can transfer information with low-power consumption as their propagations are independent of charge transport.However,to dynamically couple two distant nanomagnets via spin waves remains a major challenge for magnonics.Here we experimentally demonstrate coherent coupling of two distant Co nanowires by fast propagating spin waves in an yttrium iron garnet thin film with sub-50 nm wavelengths.Magnons in two nanomagnets are unidirectionally phase-locked with phase shifts controlled by magnon spin torque and spin-wave propagation.The coupled system is finally formulated by an analytical theory in terms of an effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian.Our results are attractive for analog neuromorphic computing that requires unidirectional information transmission.展开更多
基金We wish to acknowledge the support by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Nos.2016YFA0300802 and 2017YFA0206200)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Nos.11674020,12074026 and U1801661)+6 种基金the 111 talent program B16001G.B.was supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research(NWO)and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Kakenhi Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(No.19H006450)T.Y.was funded through the Emmy Noether Program of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(SE 2558/2-1)K.X.thanks the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Nos.2017YFA0303304 and 2018YFB0407601)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61774017 and 11734004)K.S.was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.2018EYT02)M.Z.W.were supported by the US National Science Foundation(No.EFMA-1641989).
文摘Nanomagnets are widely used to store information in non-volatile spintronic devices.Spin waves can transfer information with low-power consumption as their propagations are independent of charge transport.However,to dynamically couple two distant nanomagnets via spin waves remains a major challenge for magnonics.Here we experimentally demonstrate coherent coupling of two distant Co nanowires by fast propagating spin waves in an yttrium iron garnet thin film with sub-50 nm wavelengths.Magnons in two nanomagnets are unidirectionally phase-locked with phase shifts controlled by magnon spin torque and spin-wave propagation.The coupled system is finally formulated by an analytical theory in terms of an effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian.Our results are attractive for analog neuromorphic computing that requires unidirectional information transmission.
