Strong Photon-Magnon Coupling Using a Lithographically Defined Organic Ferrimagnet

Adv Sci (Weinh). 2024 Apr;11(14):e2310032. doi: 10.1002/advs.202310032. Epub 2024 Jan 26.

Abstract

A cavity-magnonic system composed of a superconducting microwave resonator coupled to a magnon mode hosted by the organic-based ferrimagnet vanadium tetracyanoethylene (V[TCNE]x) is demonstrated. This work is motivated by the challenge of scalably integrating a low-damping magnetic system with planar superconducting circuits. V[TCNE]x has ultra-low intrinsic damping, can be grown at low processing temperatures on arbitrary substrates, and can be patterned via electron beam lithography. The devices operate in the strong coupling regime, with a cooperativity exceeding 1000 for coupling between the Kittel mode and the resonator mode at T≈0.4 K, suitable for scalable quantum circuit integration. Higher-order magnon modes are also observed with much narrower linewidths than the Kittel mode. This work paves the way for high-cooperativity hybrid quantum devices in which magnonic circuits can be designed and fabricated as easily as electrical wires.

Keywords: cavity magnonics; hybrid quantum system; lithographically defined low damping organic ferrimagnet; non‐uniform magnon modes; strong coupling; vanadium tetracyanoethylene.