Dispersive readout of ferromagnetic resonance for strongly coupled magnons and microwave photons

Abstract

We demonstrate the dispersive measurement of ferromagnetic resonance in a yttrium iron garnet sphere embedded within a microwave cavity. The reduction in the longitudinal magnetization at resonance is measured as a frequency shift in the cavity mode coupled to the sphere. This measurement is a result of the intrinsic nonlinearity in magnetization dynamics, indicating a promising route towards experiments in magnon cavity quantum electrodynamics.