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D M Polishchuk1,2, Yu O Tykhonenko-Polishchuk1,2, Ya M Lytvynenko2
1Nanostructure Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
Abstract:
We observe a strong thermally controlled magnon-mediated interlayer coupling of two ferromagnetic layers via an antiferromagnetic spacer in spin-valve type trilayers. The effect manifests itself as a coherent switching as well as collective resonant precession of the two ferromagnets, which can be controlled by varying temperature and the spacer thickness. We explain the observed behavior as due to a strong hybridization of the ferro- and antiferromagnetic magnon modes in the trilayer at temperatures just below the Néel temperature of the antiferromagnetic spacer.
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