Optomagnonic Barnett effect

Nakata, Koki   ; Takayoshi, Shintaro*

Combining the technologies of quantum optics and magnonics [A. Rebei and J. Hohlfeld, Phys. Lett. A 372, 1915 (2008); J. Appl. Phys. 103, 07B118 (2008)] [S. Takayoshi et al., Phys. Rev. B 90, 214413 (2014); S. Takayoshi et al., Phys. Rev. B 90, 085150 (2014)], we find that the circularly polarized laser can dynamically realize the quasiequilibrium magnon Bose-Einstein condensates in insulating ferrimagnets. This provides an access to coherent magnons in the high frequency regime of the order of terahertz.