Interface modes in planar one-dimensional magnonic crystals

Abstract: We present the concept of Zak phase for spin waves in planar magnonic crystals and discuss the conditions for the existence of interface modes localized on the boundary between two magnonic crystals with centrosymmetric unit cells. Using the symmetry criterion and the calculated logarithmic derivative of the Bloch function we study the interface modes to demonstrate the bulk-edge correspondence. Our theoretical results are verified numerically for structures in the exchange and exchange-dipolar regimes and extended to the case in which one of the magnonic crystals has an arbitrary unit cell. Moreover, we show that by shifting the unit cell the interface modes can be caused to traverse the bandgap edges.