Single-shot magnon interference in a magnon-superconducting-resonator hybrid circuit

Magnon interference is a hallmark of coherent magnon interactions. In this work, we demonstrate single-shot magnon interference using up to four magnon pulses in two remotely coupled yttrium iron garnet spheres mediated by a coplanar superconducting resonator. By exciting one YIG sphere with injected microwave pulses, we achieve coherent energy exchange between the two spheres, facilitating their interference processes, including Rabi-like oscillation with a single pulse, constructive and destructive interference with two pulses, and interference peak sharpening with up to four pulses—analogous to diffraction grating in optical interference. The resulting interference patterns can be precisely controlled by changing the frequency detuning and time delay of the magnon pulses. The demonstration of time-domain coherent control of remote magnon interference opens new pathways for advancing coherent information processing through multi-operation, circuit-integrated hybrid magnonic networks.. Authors: Song, Moojune [Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Korea Advanced Inst. Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)] (ORCID:0000000267012423); Polakovic, Tomas [Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)] (ORCID:0000000201911514); Lim, Jinho [Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)] (ORCID:0000000181702765); Cecil, Thomas W. [Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)] (ORCID:0000000270195056); Pearson, John [Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)] (ORCID:0000000175529353). DOE Contract: AC02-06CH11357; SC0022060. Subjects: 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Magnetic properties and materials; Spintronics