Spin-Wave Fiber

Abstract

Spin waves are collective excitations propagating in the magnetic medium with ordered magnetizations. Magnonics, utilizing the spin wave (magnon) as information carrier, is a promising candidate for low-dissipation computation and communication technologies. We discover that, due to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, the scattering behavior of spin wave at a magnetic domain wall follows a generalized Snell's law, where two magnetic domains work as two different mediums. Similar to optical total reflection that occurs at the water-air interfaces, spin waves may experience total reflection at magnetic domain walls when their incident angle larger than a critical value. We design a spin wave fiber using a magnetic domain structure with two domain walls, and demonstrate that such a spin wave fiber can transmit spin waves over long distance by total internal reflections, in analogy to an optical fiber. Our design of spin wave fiber opens up new possibilities in pure magnetic information processing.