Persistent magnetic coherence in magnets

磁性体における存続する磁気コヒーレンス

巻内 崇彦*; 日置 友智*; 清水 祐樹*; 星 幸治郎*; Elyasi, M.*; 山本 慧   ; 横井 直人*; Serga, A. A.*; Hillebrands, B.*; Bauer, G. E. W.*; 齊藤 英治*

Makiuchi, Takahiko*; Hioki, Tomosato*; Shimizu, Hiroki*; Hoshi, Kojiro*; Elyasi, M.*; Yamamoto, Kei; Yokoi, Naoto*; Serga, A. A.*; Hillebrands, B.*; Bauer, G. E. W.*; Saito, Eiji*

When excited, a magnetization in a magnet precesses around the field in an anticlockwise manner on a time scale governed by viscous magnetization damping, after which any information carried by the initial actuation seems to be lost. The damping appears to be a fundamental bottleneck for the use of magnets in information processing. Nevertheless, here we demonstrate recall of the magnetization-precession phase after times that far exceed the damping time scale by two orders of magnitude using dedicated two-colour microwave pump-and-probe experiments for a YFeO microstructured film. Time- resolved magnetization state tomography confirms the magnetic persistent coherence (MPC) by revealing a double-exponential decay of the magnetization correlation. We attribute MPC to a feedback effect, viz. coherent coupling of the uniform precession with long-lived excitations at the minima of the spin-wave dispersion relation. Our finding liberates magnetic systems from the strong damping in nanostructures tyranny that limits their use in coherent information storage and processing.