Our results yield an essential contribution for the development of the aspiring field of
magnon spintronics», said Joel Cramer, co-author of the publication and PhD student at the Graduate School of Excellence Materials Science in Mainz (MAINZ).
In the emerging field of
magnon spintronics, researchers investigate the possibility to transport and process information by means of so - called magnon spin currents.
One fundamental building block of
magnon spintronics is magnon logic, which, for instance, allows to perform logic operations and thus information processing by the superposition of spin currents.
The essential aim of
magnon spintronics is to replace the electrical charge as information carrier in information technological concepts by magnons.
Not exact matches
The results will stimulate research on the quantum behavior of
magnons in
spintronics devices and open a path toward realization of quantum interfaces and quantum repeaters.
This novel behavior of topological
magnon insulators could lead to new applications in such fields as
spintronics, where spin currents (rather than charge current in electronics) could be exploited for energy - efficient technologies and information storage.