Long lifetime of thermally excited magnons in bulk yttrium iron garnet
Abstract
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 (μm), 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 μm 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 (τmp) are used as fit parameters. From 300 to 4 K, τmp) varies from 1 to 10 ns, whereas tau varies from 2 to 60 μs 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 magnonsmore »
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- Research Org.:
- The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); US Army Research Office (ARO)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1594137
- Report Number(s):
- OSU-01304
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950; PRBMDO; TRN: US2101512
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001304; DMR-1420451; MURI W911NF-14-1-0016; FG02-03ER46054
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 100; Journal Issue: 13; 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; Magnons; lifetime; YIG; ferrimagnetism; magnetism; Spin Seebeck effect; spin caloritronics; spin current; spin diffusion; spin relaxation; spin waves
Citation Formats
Jamison, John S., Yang, Zihao, Giles, Brandon L., Brangham, Jack T., Wu, Guanzhong, Hammel, P. Chris, Yang, Fengyuan, and Myers, Roberto C. Long lifetime of thermally excited magnons in bulk yttrium iron garnet. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.100.134402.
Jamison, John S., Yang, Zihao, Giles, Brandon L., Brangham, Jack T., Wu, Guanzhong, Hammel, P. Chris, Yang, Fengyuan, & Myers, Roberto C. Long lifetime of thermally excited magnons in bulk yttrium iron garnet. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.134402
Jamison, John S., Yang, Zihao, Giles, Brandon L., Brangham, Jack T., Wu, Guanzhong, Hammel, P. Chris, Yang, Fengyuan, and Myers, Roberto C. Wed .
"Long lifetime of thermally excited magnons in bulk yttrium iron garnet". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.134402. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1594137.
@article{osti_1594137,
title = {Long lifetime of thermally excited magnons in bulk yttrium iron garnet},
author = {Jamison, John S. and Yang, Zihao and Giles, Brandon L. and Brangham, Jack T. and Wu, Guanzhong and Hammel, P. Chris and Yang, Fengyuan and Myers, Roberto C.},
abstractNote = {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 (μm), 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 μm 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 (τmp) are used as fit parameters. From 300 to 4 K, τmp) varies from 1 to 10 ns, whereas tau varies from 2 to 60 μs 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.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.100.134402},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 13,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Wed Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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