Abstract
A macroscopic collective motion of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is commonly associated with phenomena such as superconductivity and superfluidity, often generalised by the term supercurrent. Another type of motion of a quantum condensate is second sound-a wave of condensate's parameters. Recently, we reported on the decay of a BEC of magnons caused by a supercurrent outflow of the BEC from the locally heated area of a room temperature magnetic film. Here, we present the observation of a macroscopic BEC transport mechanism related to the excitation of second sound. The condensed magnons, being propelled out of the heated area, form compact humps of BEC density, which propagate many hundreds of micrometers in the form of distinct second sound-Bogoliubov waves. This discovery advances the physics of quasiparticles and allows for the application of related transport phenomena for low-loss data transfer in magnon spintronics devices.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 2460 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Nature Communications |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 5 Jun 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Financial support of the European Research Council within the Advanced Grant 694709 SuperMagnonics—Supercurrents of Magnon Condensates for Advanced Magnonics as well as financial support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the Collaborative Research Center SFB/TRR-49 Condensed Matter Systems with Variable Many-Body Interactions (project INST 161/544-3) and within the DFG project INST 248/178-1 is gratefully acknowledged.A.A.S. and B.H. contributed to the experimental idea, planned and supervised the project. D.A.B. and A.J.E.K. contributed to the experimental setup and carried out the experiments. A.P. and V.S.L. developed the theoretical model. H.Y.M-S. carried out the numerical analysis. A.J.E.K. performed temperature simulations. All authors analysed the experimental data and discussed the results.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Chemistry
- General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
- General Physics and Astronomy