Exchange Surface Spin Waves in Type-A van der Waals Antiferromagnets
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| author | Sun, Zhoujian Li, Fuxiang Bauer, Gerrit E. W. Tang, Ping |
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| contents | Surface spin waves in the short-wavelength regime enable ultrafast, nanoscale magnon-based devices. Here we report the emergence of surface spin-wave excitations within the bulk magnon band gap of type-A van der Waals antiferromagnets composed of antiferromagnetically coupled ferromagnetic monolayers. In contrast to the magnetostatic Damon-Eshbach modes in magnetic slabs, these surface waves are pure exchange modes owing to the reduced interlayer exchange coupling at surface layers, and thus persist in ultrathin multilayer stacks and at large wave numbers. We show that they can be efficiently excited by electromagnetic waves, with absorption power comparable to or even exceeding that of bulk modes. Moreover, their magnetic stray fields exhibit pronounced even-odd oscillations with the number of monolayers that should be observable by NV-center magnetometry. |
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| spellingShingle | Exchange Surface Spin Waves in Type-A van der Waals Antiferromagnets Sun, Zhoujian Li, Fuxiang Bauer, Gerrit E. W. Tang, Ping Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Surface spin waves in the short-wavelength regime enable ultrafast, nanoscale magnon-based devices. Here we report the emergence of surface spin-wave excitations within the bulk magnon band gap of type-A van der Waals antiferromagnets composed of antiferromagnetically coupled ferromagnetic monolayers. In contrast to the magnetostatic Damon-Eshbach modes in magnetic slabs, these surface waves are pure exchange modes owing to the reduced interlayer exchange coupling at surface layers, and thus persist in ultrathin multilayer stacks and at large wave numbers. We show that they can be efficiently excited by electromagnetic waves, with absorption power comparable to or even exceeding that of bulk modes. Moreover, their magnetic stray fields exhibit pronounced even-odd oscillations with the number of monolayers that should be observable by NV-center magnetometry. |
| title | Exchange Surface Spin Waves in Type-A van der Waals Antiferromagnets |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21465 |