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A. S. Pakhomov

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Superconductivity-Enabled Conversion of Ferromagnetic Resonance into Standing Spin Waves

Superconductors can transport spin without Joule dissipation, yet their coherent coupling to short-wavelength magnons in insulating magnets remains largely unexplored. Here we demonstrate experimentally and theoretically that a conventional diffusive superconductor can enable the conversion of the uniform ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) mode into perpendicular standing spin waves (PSSWs) in an adjacent ferrimagnetic insulator. In Bi-substituted iron-garnet/Nb bilayers, the microwave transmission develops an additional resonance feature that appears only below the Nb superconducting transition temperature and lies close to the uniform FMR peak. A microscopic theory that self-consistently couples the quasiclassical Keldysh--Usadel description of the superconducting condensate to the Landau--Lifshitz--Gilbert dynamics shows that the conversion relies on two ingredients: (i) an interfacial spin-transfer torque mediated by spin-polarized triplet Cooper pairs and (ii) a depth-dependent effective field produced by Abrikosov vortices (electromagnetic proximity). The resulting susceptibility reproduces the measured lineshapes and establishes superconductivity as an active control parameter for exchange standing-wave modes in magnetic insulators.

cond-mat.supr-con↗

Short-range magnetic order and multi-stage phase transitions in the easy-plane van der Waals magnet CrCl$_3$

We investigate the evolution of spin correlations and the nature of the multi-stage magnetic transition in the quasi-two-dimensional easy-plane van der Waals magnet $\rm CrCl_3$. By combining broadband ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectroscopy and DC SQUID magnetometry on mechanically exfoliated micro-flakes with non-local dynamical mean-field theory (DFT+DMFT) calculations, we analyze both long- and short range magnetic order in CrCl$_3$. Experimentally, SQUID and FMR measurements confirm the presence of the crossover to a spin polarized phase with the subsequent transition into an antiferromagnetic ground state upon cooling, but show robust short-range correlations at temperatures far above the magnetic ordering temperatures. Theoretically, we show the existence of highly stable local magnetic moments at room temperature, with a giant room temperature lifetime $τ$ of 130--300 ps due to a wide Mott bandgap. Below room temperature, a rapid growth of the in-plane correlation length $ξ$ signals the formation of strong short range magnetic order consistent with the experimental observations. We also obtain a temperature-driven crossover of the interlayer exchange interaction, which changes from positive (ferromagnetic) at high temperatures to negative (antiferromagnetic) in the low-temperature ordered phase.

cond-mat.str-el↗