Monday, 27 August 2012

Akashdeep Kamra

has given a talk at our group meeting today. It was about interaction of magnons and phonons in the context of spin transfer. The results oultined are as follows:
1. Linear Magneto-Elastic Coupling (MEC) leads to an avoided level crossing in the  (quasi) magnon and (quasi) phonon branches of the dispersion relation at which a new quasi particle - magneto polaron is formed.
2. We observe that linear MEC forms the basis of already known effects such as acoustic ferromagnetic resonance and predicts some novel effects such as acoustically assisted magnetic switching.
3. Non-linear MEC is responsible for energy exchange and equilibration between phonons and magnons thereby forming the basis of effects such as the spin Seebeck effect.

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