Spin Pumping in Electrodynamically Coupled Magnon-Photon Systems

Phys Rev Lett. 2015 Jun 5;114(22):227201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.227201. Epub 2015 Jun 1.

Abstract

We use electrical detection, in combination with microwave transmission, to investigate both resonant and nonresonant magnon-photon coupling at room temperature. Spin pumping in a dynamically coupled magnon-photon system is found to be distinctly different from previous experiments. Characteristic coupling features such as modes anticrossing, linewidth evolution, peculiar line shape, and resonance broadening are systematically measured and consistently analyzed by a theoretical model set on the foundation of classical electrodynamic coupling. Our experimental and theoretical approach paves the way for pursuing microwave coherent manipulation of pure spin current via the combination of spin pumping and magnon-photon coupling.