Observation of propagating edge spin waves modes

Observation of propagating edge spin waves modes

Propagating Spin Modes in Canonical Quantum Gravity

One of the main results in canonical quantum gravity is the introduction of spin network states as a basis on the space of kinematical states. To arrive at the physical state space of the theory though we need to understand the dynamics of the quantum gravitational states. To this aim we study a model in which we allow for the spins, labeling the edges of spin networks, to change according to s...

Excitation of coherent propagating spin waves by pure spin currents.

Utilization of pure spin currents not accompanied by the flow of electrical charge provides unprecedented opportunities for the emerging technologies based on the electron's spin degree of freedom, such as spintronics and magnonics. It was recently shown that pure spin currents can be used to excite coherent magnetization dynamics in magnetic nanostructures. However, because of the intrinsic no...

Crosstalk of propagating and localized spin-wave modes

The relaxation mechanisms in thin nickel films are investigated with all optical pump-probe experiments. Magnetic oscillations in the GHz range can be attributed to the uniform precession (Kittel mode) and spin waves with dipole character (Damon-Eshbach surface modes). Applying an external field changes both oscillation amplitude and frequency yielding experimental dispersions ν(Hext). On a wed...

Bloch waves and non - propagating modes in photonic crystals

We investigate the propagation of electromagnetic waves in finite photonic band gap structures. We analyze the phenomenon of conduction and forbidden bands and we show that two regimes are to be distinguished with respect to the existence of a strong field near the interfaces. We precise the domain for which an effective medium theory is sounded.