Antimagnonics

Abstract: Magnons are the quanta of collective spin excitations in magnetically-ordered systems and manipulation of magnons for computing and information processing has witnessed the development of ``magnonics". A magnon corresponds to an excitation of the magnetic system from its ground state and the creation of a magnon thus increases the total energy of the system. In this perspective, we introduce the antiparticle of a magnon, dubbed the antimagnon, as an excitation that lowers the magnetic energy. We investigate the stability and thermal occupation of antimagnons and verify our theory by micromagnetic simulations. Furthermore, we show how the concept of antimagnons yields a unified picture to understand the magnonic analog of the Klein effect, magnonic black-hole horizons, and magnonic black-hole lasing. Our work may stimulate fundamental interest in antimagnons, as well as their applications to spintronic devices.