Geometric magnonics with chiral magnetic domain walls

Spin wave, the collective excitation of magnetic order, is one of the fundamental angular momentum carriers in magnetic systems. Understanding the spin wave propagation in magnetic textures lies in the heart of developing pure magnetic information processing schemes. Here we show that the spin wave propagation across a chiral domain wall follows simple geometric trajectories, similar to the geometric optics. And the geometric behaviors are qualitatively different in normally magnetized film and tangentially magnetized film. We identify the lateral shift, refraction, and total reflection of spin wave across a ferromagnetic domain wall. Moreover, these geometric scattering phenomena become polarization dependent in antiferromagnets, indicating the emergence of spin wave birefringence inside antiferromagnetic domain walls.

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Spin wave, a fundamental angular momentum carrier in magnetic systems, propagates across chiral domain walls following simple geometric trajectories similar to geometric optics. Geometric behaviors are qualitatively different in normally magnetized films and tangentially magnetized films. Scattering phenomena become polarization dependent in antiferromagnets, indicating the emergence of spin wave birefringence inside antiferromagnetic domain walls.