We have shown that the size of the magnetization step due to resonant spin tunneling in a molecular magnet can be strongly affected by sound. The transverse acoustic wave can also generate macroscopic quantum beats of the magnetization during the field sweep.
Nanomechanical systems are generally embedded in a macroscopic environment where the sources of thermal noise are difficult to pinpoint. We engineer a silicon nitride membrane optomechanical resonator such that its thermal noise is acoustically driven by a spatially well-defined remote macroscopic bath. This bath acts as an acoustic blackbody emitting and absorbing acoustic radiation through the silicon substrate. Our optomechanical system acts as a sensitive detector for the blackbody temperature and for photoacoustic imaging. We demonstrate that the nanomechanical mode temperature is governe…
Experimental demonstration of acoustic wave induced magnetization switching of dipole coupled magnetostrictive nanomagnets for ultralow power computing
We show that a surface acoustic wave (SAW) applied across the terminals of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) decreases both the (time-averaged) parallel and antiparallel resistances of the MTJ, with the latter decreasing much more than the former. This results in a decrease of the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) ratio. The coercivities of the free and fixed layer of the MTJ, however, are not affected significantly, suggesting that the SAW does not cause large-angle magnetization rotation in the magnetic layers through the inverse magnetostriction (Villari) effect at the power levels used. Thi…
Fudan University(复旦大学);State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Institute for Nanoelectronic Devices and Quantum Computing, Fudan University(复旦大学表面物理国家重点实验室和纳米电子器件与量子计算研究所);Department of Physics, Fudan University(复旦大学物理系);Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, Fudan University(复旦大学张江国际创新中心)
Manifestation of the magnetic depopulation of one-dimensional subbands in the optical absorption of acoustic magnetoplasmons in side-gated quantum wires
我们从实验和理论上研究了深台面刻蚀GaAs/Al $_x$ Ga $_{1-x}$ As量子线的远红外吸收。为了克服Kohn定理,我们特别准备了双层导线,并研究了声磁等离子体分支。我们发现的声学等离子体激元的磁场色散中的振荡可以追溯到自洽屏蔽的密度分布在其依赖于磁人口减少的一维子带。
Switching the magnetization of magnetostrictive nanomagnets from single-domain to non-volatile vortex states with a surface acoustic wave
我们报道了用从叉指电极发射的表面声波(SAW)操纵在体128° Y切割的钛酸锂上描绘的椭圆形钴磁致伸缩纳米磁体(标称尺寸~ 340 nm x 270 nm x 12 nm)的磁状态。最初被磁化为具有沿着椭圆的长轴指向的磁化的单畴状态的隔离的纳米磁体被调制这些纳米磁体的应力各向异性的表面声波驱动成涡旋状态。纳米磁体保持在涡旋状态,直到它们被强磁场复位到初始单畴状态,使得涡旋状态非易失性。这一现象是建模和解释使用微磁框架,并可能导致非常节能的磁化切换方法的发展。
Macroscopic quantum coherence in antiferromagnetic molecular magnets
在双子格模型下,研究了在平行于其硬各向异性轴的磁场作用下双轴反铁磁分子磁体中的宏观量子相干性。基于自旋相干态路径积分表象中的瞬子技术,得到了基态隧道分裂的严格Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin指数和指前因子.我们发现经典路径周围的量子涨落不仅可以诱导一个新的量子相位,以前由Chiolero和Loss(Phys. Rev. Lett. 80,169(1998)),而且对基态隧道劈裂的强度也有很大的影响。这些特征在铁磁分子磁体中显然没有类似物。我们认为它们可能是所有反铁磁分子磁体的普遍行为。分析结果得到了精确对角化计算的补充。
One of the most fundamental forms of magnon-phonon interaction is an intrinsic property of magnetic materials, the "magnetoelastic coupling". This particular form of interaction has been the basis for describing magnetic materials and their strain related applications, where strain induces changes of internal magnetic fields. Different from the magnetoelastic coupling, more than 40 years ago, it was proposed that surface acoustic waves may induce surface magnons via rotational motion of the lattice in anisotropic magnets. However, a signature of this magnon-phonon coupling mechanism, termed ma…