Controlling spins with surface magnon polaritons

Sloan, Jamison; Rivera, Nicholas; Joannopoulos, John D.; Kaminer, Ido; Soljačić, Marin

doi:10.1103/physrevb.100.235453

Controlling spins with surface magnon polaritons

Journal Article · Sun Dec 29 23:00:00 EST 2019 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.100.235453· OSTI ID:1800923

Sloan, Jamison ^[1]; Rivera, Nicholas ^[2]; Joannopoulos, John D. ^[2]; Kaminer, Ido ^[3]; Soljačić, Marin ^[2]

Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); OSTI
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Israel)

Polaritons in metals, semimetals, semiconductors, and polar insulators can allow for extreme confinement of electromagnetic energy, providing many promising opportunities for enhancing typically weak light-matter interactions such as multipolar radiation, multiphoton spontaneous emission, Raman scattering, and material nonlinearities. These extremely confined polaritons are quasielectrostatic in nature, with most of their energy residing in the electric field. As a result, these “electric” polaritons are far from optimized for enhancing emission of a magnetic nature, such as spin relaxation, which is typically many orders of magnitude slower than corresponding electric decays. Here, we take concepts of “electric” polaritons into magnetic materials, and propose using surface magnon polaritons in negative magnetic permeability materials to strongly enhance spin relaxation in nearby emitters. Specifically, we provide quantitative examples with MnF₂ and FeF₂, enhancing spin transitions in the THz spectral range. In this work we find that these magnetic polaritons in 100-nm thin films can be confined to lengths over 10 000 times smaller than the wavelength of a photon at the same frequency, allowing for a surprising 12 orders of magnitude enhancement in magnetic dipole transitions. This takes THz spin-flip transitions, which normally occur at timescales on the order of a year, and forces them to occur at sub-ms timescales. Our results suggest an interesting platform for polaritonics at THz frequencies, and more broadly, a way to use polaritons to control light-matter interactions.

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Research Organization:: Krell Institute, Ames, IA (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); US Army Research Office (ARO); Azrieli Foundation; European Research Council (ERC)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-97ER25308; SC0001299

OSTI ID:: 1800923

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 23 Vol. 100; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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