Control of the Magnon–Photon Coupling

A systematic study of the electrodynamic coupling between the ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) and the cavity mode of a microwave cavity is presented. The nature of the FMR and cavity modes, described by their resonance position and line width, is measured and compared with a classical model based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation and an RLC circuit, which explicitly implement Faraday's and Ampère's laws. The relationship between the coupling gap, which can be accessed experimentally, and the coupling strength, which is a fundamental property of the FMR/cavity system, is discussed on the basis of this model. A straightforward method is experimentally developed to control the coupling gap. The capability of using such a tunable cavity-FMR coupling in combination with spin pumping could provide us with new technologies that utilize the light-matter interaction to control spin current in cavity spintronics.