Comparing a magnon to a phonon
- Comparison of a phonon (lattice vibration) and a magnon (spin vibration) in a 1D chain
- Client
- NIST
- Date
- February 2020
- Categories
- Animation
- Link
- https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2020/02/spin-wave-detective-story-nist-researchers-verify-surprising-behavior-2d
Project Notes
The final deliverables for this project were a series of gifs. The first was a phonon in a 1D hexagonal lattice:
The second is a magnon, or spin wave, in the same 1D hexagonal lattice:
The final is a closeup of the magnon in a single cell of the lattice, showing the phase difference between the spins:
