Magnonic Goos-Hanchen Effect Induced by 1D Solitons

The spin wave spectral problem is solved in terms of the spectrum of a diagonalizable operator for a class of magnetic states that includes several types of domain walls and the chiral solitons of monoaxial helimagnets. Focusing on these latter solitons, it is shown that the spin waves reflected and transmitted by them suffer a lateral displacement analogous to the Goos-Hanchen effect of optics. The displacement is a fraction of the wavelength, but can be greatly enhanced by using an array of well separated solitons. Contrarily to the Goos-Hanchen effect recently studied in some magnetic systems, which takes place at the interfaces between different magnetic systems, the effect predicted here takes place at the soliton position, which is interesting for applications since solitons can be created at different places and moved across the material by suitable means. Moreover, the effect predicted here is not particular to monoaxial helimagnets, but it is generic of 1D solitons, although it is accidentally absent in the domain walls of ferromagnets with uniaxial anisotropy. Even though in this work the dipolar interaction is ignored for simplicity, we argue that the Goos-Hanchen shift is also present when it is taken into account.

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The spin wave spectral problem was solved for a class of magnetic states including domain walls and chiral solitons. It was discovered that spin waves reflected and transmitted by these solitons experience a lateral displacement similar to the Goos-Hanchen effect in optics. This displacement, a fraction of the wavelength, can be greatly enhanced by using an array of well separated solitons.