Nature Communications (May 2019)

Twisted magnon beams carrying orbital angular momentum

  • Chenglong Jia,
  • Decheng Ma,
  • Alexander F. Schäffer,
  • Jamal Berakdar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10008-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The magnonic currents promise the opportunity for the energy efficient information processing and communication technologies. Here the authors theoretically show the propagating spin waves that carry orbital angular momentum can be electrically tunable and protected against damping in a cylindrical magnetic insulator waveguide.