Phonon-Magnon Interactions: From Fundamentals to Device Physics
Phonons and magnons are collective excitations in solids offering promising charge-free alternatives for information carriers. In this respect, the utmost relevant property of acoustic and optical phonons is their robustness and long coherence times. Magnons offer a remarkable frequency tunability, from GHz up to THz, making them particularly promising candidates for energy-efficient high-speed applications. The investigation of materials, metamaterials, and devices for the observation, enhancement, and control of magnon-phonon interactions has become an ever-growing research field since it enables sharing and combining their respective advantages, resulting in phenomena that could be game-changers in key modern technologies, including analog, digital, and quantum information processing at microwave frequencies. This Special Topic is intended to bring together researchers working on cutting-edge research in this field, including, but not limited to, novel experimental metrologies, materials, physical phenomena and engineered devices, advances in modelling and simulations, as well as new theoretical breakthroughs pushing the frontiers of magnonics and phononics, notably through their coupling.Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
- Magneoelasticity and phonon-magnon coupling (linear and non-linear effects).
- Magneto-acoustics with surface acoustic waves.
- Ultrafast magneto-acoustics.
- Magneto-acoustics with 2D materials, antiferromagnets, ferrimagnets, multiferroics, and metamaterials.
- Quantum effects.
- Topological magnon-phonon hybridization.
- Applications and devices (spintronics, magnetic-switching, and magnetomechanics).
Guest Editors
Vasily V. Temnov, LSI, Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris, Palaiseau, France
Alexey V. Scherbakov, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Yoshi Chika Otani, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo
Paolo Vavassori, CIC nanoGUNE BRTA, Donostia – San Sebastián, Spain
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