Direct Measurement of Magnon Temperature: New Insight into Magnon-Phonon Coupling in Magnetic Insulators
- 4 September 2013
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 111 (10), 107204
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.111.107204
Abstract
We present spatially resolved measurements of the magnon temperature in a magnetic insulator subject to a thermal gradient. Our data reveal an unexpectedly close correspondence between the spatial dependencies of the exchange magnon and phonon temperatures. These results indicate that if—as is currently thought—the transverse spin Seebeck effect is caused by a temperature difference between the magnon and phonon baths, it must be the case that the magnon temperature is spectrally nonuniform and that the effect is driven by the sparsely populated dipolar region of the magnon spectrum.Keywords
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