Spin wave propagation in a uniformly biased curved magnonic waveguide

Abstract

Using a combination of experiment and simulation, the authors have investigated comprehensively how the spin-wave transmission across a curved magnonic waveguide is modified through rotation of an externally delivered uniform magnetic field. They reveal that, while the spin-wave transmission is reasonable when the bend is magnetized along an axis of symmetry, the transmission can be substantially improved (by a factor of 2) through just rotating the magnetic field by 15\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{} in a particular direction. To explain their results, the authors study the landscape of the internal magnetic field spanning the structure, and discuss how it can be tuned in order to optimally distribute the flow of anisotropic spin waves across networks of magnonic waveguides.