Yue Sun^1,2*, Fanhao Meng^2,3*, Changmin Lee^2,4*, Aljoscha Soll^5*, Hongrui Zhang^3*, Ramamoorthy Ramesh^1,2,3*, Jie Yao^2,3*, Zdeněk Sofer^5*, Joseph Orenstein^1,2*

1 Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

2 Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

3 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

4 Department of Physics, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea

5 Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic

* Corresponding authors emails: yue.sun@berkeley.edu, fhmeng@berkeley.edu, cmlee23@hanyang.ac.kr, Aljoscha1.Soll@vscht.cz, hongruizhang@berkeley.edu, rramesh@berkeley.edu, yaojie@berkeley.edu, zdenek.sofer@vscht.cz, jworenstein@lbl.gov

DOI10.24435/materialscloud:9x-ds [version v1]

Publication date: Dec 08, 2023

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Yue Sun, Fanhao Meng, Changmin Lee, Aljoscha Soll, Hongrui Zhang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Jie Yao, Zdeněk Sofer, Joseph Orenstein, Dipolar spin wave packet transport in a van der Waals antiferromagnet, Materials Cloud Archive 2023.191 (2023), https://doi.org/10.24435/materialscloud:9x-ds

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Antiferromagnets are promising platforms for transduction and transmission of quantum information via magnons — the quanta of spin waves — and they offer advantages over ferromagnets in regard to dissipation, speed of response, and robustness to external fields. Recently, transduction was shown in a van der Waals antiferromagnets, where strong spin-exciton coupling enables readout of the amplitude and phase of coherent magnons by photons of visible light. This discovery shifts the focus of research to transmission, specifically to exploring the nonlocal interactions that enable magnon wave packets to propagate. Here we demonstrate that magnon propagation is mediated by the long-range dipole-dipole interaction. This coupling is an inevitable consequence of fundamental electrodynamics, and as such, will likely mediate the propagation of spin at long wavelengths in the entire class of van der Waals magnets currently under investigation. Successfully identifying the mechanism of spin propagation provides a set of optimization rules, as well as caveats, that are essential for any future applications of these promising systems.

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spin transport time-resolved Kerr microscopy magnetostatic spin waves antiferromagnets