New phononic insulator design uses magnons for GHz topological acoustics

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Researchers have proposed a novel method to achieve a magnon-induced phononic Chern insulator at gigahertz frequencies. This is accomplished by hybridizing a honeycomb phononic crystal with ferromagnetic islands, which induces a phase winding in the Kittel mode that breaks time-reversal symmetry. The resulting system effectively mimics a Haldane-type phononic model, allowing for tunable Chern numbers of |C|=1 and |C|=2, and potentially enabling observation in GHz acoustic devices. AI

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arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Rui-Chang Shen, Yihao Yang, Haoran Xue · 2026-08-28 04:00

Magnon-induced phononic Chern insulator

arXiv:2608.27011v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-frequency artificial phononic crystals offer a low-loss platform compatible with on-chip integration, yet realizing Chern phononic phases at GHz frequencies remains challenging. Here, we propose a magnon-induced phononic Cher…