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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bao, Song
• Gu, Zhao-Long
• Shangguan, Yanyan
• Huang, Zhentao
• Liao, Junbo
• Zhao, Xiaoxue
• Zhang, Bo
• Dong, Zhao-Yang
• Wang, Wei
• Kajimoto, Ryoichi
• Nakamura, Mitsutaka
• Fennell, Tom
• Yu, Shun-Li
• Li, Jian-Xin
• Wen, Jinsheng

Titel

Direct observation of topological magnon polarons in a multiferroic material

Ist Teil von

• Nature communications, 2023-09, Vol.14 (1), p.6093-9, Article 6093

Ort / Verlag

London: Nature Publishing Group UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Magnon polarons are novel elementary excitations possessing hybrid magnonic and phononic signatures, and are responsible for many exotic spintronic and magnonic phenomena. Despite long-term sustained experimental efforts in chasing for magnon polarons, direct spectroscopic evidence of their existence is hardly observed. Here, we report the direct observation of magnon polarons using neutron spectroscopy on a multiferroic Fe 2 Mo 3 O 8 possessing strong magnon-phonon coupling. Specifically, below the magnetic ordering temperature, a gap opens at the nominal intersection of the original magnon and phonon bands, leading to two separated magnon-polaron bands. Each of the bands undergoes mixing, interconverting and reversing between its magnonic and phononic components. We attribute the formation of magnon polarons to the strong magnon-phonon coupling induced by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Intriguingly, we find that the band-inverted magnon polarons are topologically nontrivial. These results uncover exotic elementary excitations arising from the magnon-phonon coupling, and offer a new route to topological states by considering hybridizations between different types of fundamental excitations. A magnetic crystal hosts both magnons, the quanta of spin waves, and phonons, the quanta of lattice vibrations. In some materials with strong coupling between spins and lattices, a magnon-polaron can form. Here, using neutron scattering on a multiferroic, Fe 2 Mo 3 O 8 , Bao et al. observe magnon-polaron, and show that it is topologically non-trivial.