Long lifetime of thermally excited magnons in bulk yttrium iron garnet

Jamison, John S.; Yang, Zihao; Giles, Brandon L.; Brangham, Jack T.; Wu, Guanzhong; Hammel, P. Chris; Yang, Fengyuan; Myers, Roberto C.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.100.134402

Title: Long lifetime of thermally excited magnons in bulk yttrium iron garnet

Journal Article · 02 October 2019 · Physical Review B

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.134402 · OSTI ID:1594137

Jamison, John S. ^[1]; Yang, Zihao ^[1]; Giles, Brandon L. ^[1]; Brangham, Jack T. ^[1]; Wu, Guanzhong ^[1]; Hammel, P. Chris ^[1]; Yang, Fengyuan ^[1];

^[1]

The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)

Spin currents are generated within the bulk of magnetic materials due to heat flow, an effect called intrinsic spin Seebeck. This bulk bosonic spin current consists of a diffusing thermal magnon cloud, parametrized by the magnon chemical potential (μ_m), with a diffusion length of several microns in yttrium iron garnet (YIG). Transient optothermal measurements of the spin-Seebeck effect (SSE) as a function of temperature reveal the time evolution of μ_m due to intrinsic SSE in YIG. The interface SSE develops at times <2 ns while the intrinsic SSE signal continues to evolve at times >500 μs, dominating the temperature dependence of SSE in bulk YIG. Time-dependent SSE data are fit to a multitemperature model of coupled spin/heat transport using the finite-element method (FEM), where the magnon spin lifetime (τ) and magnon-phonon thermalization time (τ_mp) are used as fit parameters. From 300 to 4 K, τ_mp) varies from 1 to 10 ns, whereas tau varies from 2 to 60 μ_s with the spin lifetime peaking at 90 K. At low temperature, a reduction in τ is observed consistent with impurity relaxation reported in ferromagnetic resonance measurements. Finally, these results demonstrate that the thermal magnon cloud in YIG contains extremely low-frequency magnons (similar to 10 GHz), providing spectral insight to the microscopic scattering processes involved in magnon spin/heat diffusion.

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Research Organization:: The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); US Army Research Office (ARO)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001304; DMR-1420451; MURI W911NF-14-1-0016; FG02-03ER46054

OSTI ID:: 1594137

Report Number(s):: OSU-01304; PRBMDO; TRN: US2101512

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 100, Issue 13; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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