Controlling spins with surface magnon polaritons
Abstract
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 themmore »
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Israel)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- 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 Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); US Army Research Office (ARO); Azrieli Foundation; European Research Council (ERC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1800923
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-97ER25308; SC0001299; W911NF-18-2-0048; 328853-MCBSiCS
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 100; Journal Issue: 23; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Materials Science; Physics
Citation Formats
Sloan, Jamison, Rivera, Nicholas, Joannopoulos, John D., Kaminer, Ido, and Soljačić, Marin. Controlling spins with surface magnon polaritons. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.100.235453.
Sloan, Jamison, Rivera, Nicholas, Joannopoulos, John D., Kaminer, Ido, & Soljačić, Marin. Controlling spins with surface magnon polaritons. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.100.235453
Sloan, Jamison, Rivera, Nicholas, Joannopoulos, John D., Kaminer, Ido, and Soljačić, Marin. Mon .
"Controlling spins with surface magnon polaritons". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.100.235453. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1800923.
@article{osti_1800923,
title = {Controlling spins with surface magnon polaritons},
author = {Sloan, Jamison and Rivera, Nicholas and Joannopoulos, John D. and Kaminer, Ido and Soljačić, Marin},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.100.235453},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 23,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Dec 30 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Mon Dec 30 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
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