Nutation Spectroscopy of a Nanomagnet Driven into Deeply Nonlinear Ferromagnetic Resonance
Strongly out-of-equilibrium regimes in magnetic nanostructures exhibit novel properties, linked to the nonlinear nature of magnetization dynamics, which are of great fundamental and practical interest. Here, we demonstrate that ferromagnetic resonance driven by microwave magnetic fields can occur wi...
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| author | Y. Li V. V. Naletov O. Klein J. L. Prieto M. Muñoz V. Cros P. Bortolotti A. Anane C. Serpico G. de Loubens |
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| description | Strongly out-of-equilibrium regimes in magnetic nanostructures exhibit novel properties, linked to the nonlinear nature of magnetization dynamics, which are of great fundamental and practical interest. Here, we demonstrate that ferromagnetic resonance driven by microwave magnetic fields can occur with substantial spatial coherency at an unprecedented large angle of magnetization precessions, which is normally prevented by the onset of spin-wave instabilities and magnetization turbulent dynamics. Our results show that this limitation can be overcome in nanomagnets, where the geometric confinement drastically reduces the density of spin-wave modes. When the obtained deeply nonlinear ferromagnetic resonance regime is perturbed, the magnetization undergoes eigenoscillations around the steady state due to torques tending to restore the stable large-angle periodic trajectory. These eigenoscillations are substantially different from the usual spin-wave modes around the ground state because their existence is connected to the presence of a large coherent precession. They are experimentally investigated by a new spectroscopic technique based on the application of a second microwave excitation field that is tuned to resonantly drive them. This two-tone spectroscopy enables us to show that they consist in slow coherent magnetization nutations around the large-angle steady precession, whose frequencies are set by the balance of restoring torques. Our experimental findings are well accounted for by an analytical model derived for systems with uniaxial symmetry. They also provide a new means for controlling highly nonlinear magnetization dynamics in nanostructures, opening interesting applicative opportunities in the context of magnetic nanotechnologies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-70825194ea38472bab899a94841580572022-12-21T21:46:07ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPhysical Review X2160-33082019-11-019404103610.1103/PhysRevX.9.041036Nutation Spectroscopy of a Nanomagnet Driven into Deeply Nonlinear Ferromagnetic ResonanceY. LiV. V. NaletovO. KleinJ. L. PrietoM. MuñozV. CrosP. BortolottiA. AnaneC. SerpicoG. de LoubensStrongly out-of-equilibrium regimes in magnetic nanostructures exhibit novel properties, linked to the nonlinear nature of magnetization dynamics, which are of great fundamental and practical interest. Here, we demonstrate that ferromagnetic resonance driven by microwave magnetic fields can occur with substantial spatial coherency at an unprecedented large angle of magnetization precessions, which is normally prevented by the onset of spin-wave instabilities and magnetization turbulent dynamics. Our results show that this limitation can be overcome in nanomagnets, where the geometric confinement drastically reduces the density of spin-wave modes. When the obtained deeply nonlinear ferromagnetic resonance regime is perturbed, the magnetization undergoes eigenoscillations around the steady state due to torques tending to restore the stable large-angle periodic trajectory. These eigenoscillations are substantially different from the usual spin-wave modes around the ground state because their existence is connected to the presence of a large coherent precession. They are experimentally investigated by a new spectroscopic technique based on the application of a second microwave excitation field that is tuned to resonantly drive them. This two-tone spectroscopy enables us to show that they consist in slow coherent magnetization nutations around the large-angle steady precession, whose frequencies are set by the balance of restoring torques. Our experimental findings are well accounted for by an analytical model derived for systems with uniaxial symmetry. They also provide a new means for controlling highly nonlinear magnetization dynamics in nanostructures, opening interesting applicative opportunities in the context of magnetic nanotechnologies.http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.041036 |
| spellingShingle | Y. Li V. V. Naletov O. Klein J. L. Prieto M. Muñoz V. Cros P. Bortolotti A. Anane C. Serpico G. de Loubens Nutation Spectroscopy of a Nanomagnet Driven into Deeply Nonlinear Ferromagnetic Resonance Physical Review X |
| title | Nutation Spectroscopy of a Nanomagnet Driven into Deeply Nonlinear Ferromagnetic Resonance |
| title_full | Nutation Spectroscopy of a Nanomagnet Driven into Deeply Nonlinear Ferromagnetic Resonance |
| title_fullStr | Nutation Spectroscopy of a Nanomagnet Driven into Deeply Nonlinear Ferromagnetic Resonance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nutation Spectroscopy of a Nanomagnet Driven into Deeply Nonlinear Ferromagnetic Resonance |
| title_short | Nutation Spectroscopy of a Nanomagnet Driven into Deeply Nonlinear Ferromagnetic Resonance |
| title_sort | nutation spectroscopy of a nanomagnet driven into deeply nonlinear ferromagnetic resonance |
| url | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.041036 |
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