Lax connections and Solutions of the Hybrid Superstring on d ×

XIE Xiao-ning1, YUE Rui-hong2, SHI Kang-jie3, WU Sheng3, ZHANG Li-xia3

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Front. Phys. ›› 2008, Vol. 3 ›› Issue (1) : 69-73. DOI: 10.1007/s11467-008-0008-0

Lax connections and Solutions of the Hybrid Superstring on d ×

  • XIE Xiao-ning1, YUE Rui-hong2, SHI Kang-jie3, WU Sheng3, ZHANG Li-xia3
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In this paper, we show that the Lax connections can yield new classical solutions with a spectral parameter of the hybrid formulism for the Type IIB superstring in an AdS2 × S2 background with Ramond-Ramond flux. This series of classical solutions have the same infinite set of classically conserved charges.

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XIE Xiao-ning, YUE Rui-hong, SHI Kang-jie, WU Sheng, ZHANG Li-xia. Lax connections and Solutions of the Hybrid Superstring on d ×. Front. Phys., 2008, 3(1): 69‒73 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-008-0008-0

1 1 Introduction

Controlling matter−light interactions with cavities is of fundamental importance in not only the study of basic nonlinear dynamics in physics, but also advance modern technologies [1,2]. Recently, a number of pioneering works have been accomplished in cavity magnon systems [3-8] due to the strong coupling between magnon excitations and microwave photons, which played crucial roles in quantum information processing [9-11]. Among them, the use of a small sphere of yttrium iron garnet (YIG) single crystals enables the strong [12-16] and even ultrastrong [17-19] magnon−photon couplings, thanks to its large spin density and low damping rate. Benefiting from the distinguishing advantages of strong coupling of cavity-magnon at room temperature, low loss magnetic materials, flexible controllability of the magnetic field, etc., these cavity magnonic systems have become a unique platform for exploring various intriguing phenomena, such as cavity magnon polariton (CMP) [20,21], magnon gradient memory [22,23], dissipative magnon−photon coupling [24-26], cavity spintronics [27,28], exceptional points [29-31], and ground state cooling [32]. Moreover, due to the intrinsic magnetocrystalline anisotropy in the YIG, the magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect has been theoretically and experimentally demonstrated [33,34]. Based on the magnon Kerr effect, the interesting phenomena, including entangled state [35], sub-Poissonian statistic [36], bistability of cavity magnon polaritons [21], magnon-induced high-order sideband [37,38] and chaos [39], nonreciprocal transmission [40-42] have been novelly demonstrated.
Nonreciprocal transmission is a fundamental operation mechanism behind various nonreciprocal devices, such as light isolators, circulators and directional amplifiers, which plays crucially important roles in both basic research and applied science [43-45]. However, the nonreciprocity, which depends on the transmission characteristics related to the propagation direction under exchange of source and detector, is difficult to achieve due to the need to break the Lorentz reciprocity theorem. Until now, several common methods have been suggested for generating nonreciprocity, that is magneto-optic material responses [46,47], the use of spatiotemporal modulation [48,49] and optical nonlinear effects [50,51]. Nevertheless, these physical schemes also have some drawbacks, such as unable to realize micro integration, harsh experimental conditions, or limited performance. Therefore, other possibilities are needed to achieve the nonreciprocal transmission by going beyond these methods. Very recently, by taking advantage of the unique cavity magnonic systems, many methods for generating nonreciprocal microwave transmission have been demonstrated. For example, there are the optical controllable method based four-wave mixing effect [52], by utilizing loss under multiple channels with interference [53,54], making use of the selective coupling between the magnon mode and microwave modes with different chiralities [55,56], and magnon Kerr nonlinearity [57].
Motivated by the previous proposals employing the phase modulation [58] and the nonlinearity effect [34], we theoretically propose a multimode cavity magnonic system to study the nonreciprocal microwave transmission under the joint mechanism of phase modulation and magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect. On the one hand, the magnon Kerr nonlinearity exists objectively in practice, which is usually regarded as complex and intractable in the standard interference-based schemes, but we find that the combined action of quantum interference induced by the phase difference and magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect not only enables nonreciprocal transmission to be observed at low power but also provides conditions for obtaining high isolation rates. On the other hand, taking advantage of adjustable magnetic field, when two microwave modes are coupled to the magnon mode via a different coupling strength, the effective operating bandwidth of the strong nonreciprocity can be broadened.
In this paper, we propose and analyze nonreciprocal microwave transmission based on a three-mode cavity magnonics system comprised of a superconducting ring resonator and a YIG sphere. We show that by harnessing a total phase difference-induced quantum interference among multiple channels, as well as the magnon Kerr nonlinearity originating from the nature of magnons, the variable nonreciprocity with wide bandwidth can be realized. In the scheme, we combine the phase modulation with the magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect to improve the nonreciprocal transmission, which has not been reported in cavity magnonics systems. Through dynamic modulation of the probe field or the external magnetic field, which has a great flexible controllability and is easy to operate in practice, high forward to backward incidence extinction ratios (>20 dB) [59] can be obtained, and to some extent, the unidirectional transmission of microwave waves may be achieved. Moreover, when two microwave modes are coupled to the magnon mode via a different coupling strength, the nonreciprocal response can be further enhanced, and meanwhile it can make the nonreciprocal transmission manipulating by the magnetic field within a large adjustable range possible, which overcomes narrow operating bandwidths. We expect this work to stimulate the exploration of physics and applications of isolators, circulators, directional amplifiers and so on.
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we introduce a three-mode cavity magnonic system and demonstrate nonreciprocal microwave transmission under the joint mechanism of phase modulation and magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect. In Section 3, we show the nonreciprocal transmission adjusting by the probe field and the magnetic field under different conditions. In Section 4, a conclusion of the results is summarized.

2 2 Theoretical model and equations

The physical model we study is a waveguide-coupled superconducting ring resonator, with a YIG sphere, which is supported by a pedestal in the middle of the ring resonator, as shown in Fig.1(a). There are two paths of propagating lights in the ring resonator, which includes pairs of degenerate clockwise (acw) and counterclockwise (accw) microwave modes. In addition, a uniform external static magnetic field (H), which can be generated by a superconducting magnet, is applied along the z direction to magnetize the YIG sphere. The two microwave modes are respectively coupled to a weak probe field (εp1,p2) along the input directions of a1(in) and a2(in), which can be regarded as in the transmission of forward and backward directions through a waveguide. The magnon mode in the YIG sphere is diametrically driven by a microwave source with the driving strength εd (not shown). In Fig.1(b), the acw and accw modes are coupled via backscattering with the coupling strength J, and due to the collective magnetic-dipole interaction, the two microwave photons can be coupled to the magnons with the coupling strengths g1 and g2 respectively. Without loss of generality, we assume that the coupling strengths g1, g2, J are positive numbers and g1 carries a nontrivial phase ϕ [60]. The nontrivial phase makes the magnon−photon coupling resemble dissipative magnon−photon coupling, which can be caused by the cavity Lenz effect, where the magnons in a magnet induce a RF current in the cavity [25]. Moreover, the phase ϕ can be controlled by changing the YIG location in the cavity. Considering two weak probe fields coupled to the two microwave modes and a strong control field coupled to the magnon mode, the full system can be described by the following Hamiltonian (=1) [34,55]:
Fig.1 (a) Schematic diagram of a superconducting ring resonator which supports two clockwise (acw) and counterclockwise (accw) rotating microwave modes, and a YIG sphere which is placed in the middle of the ring resonator. (b) Schematic diagram of the linear coupling among the magnon and two microwave modes with the coupling strengths J and g1,2 respectively. κ1, κ2, γm are respectively dissipation rates of two microwave and magnon modes.

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H^=ω0(a^cwa^cw+a^ccwa^ccw)+ωmm^m^+Km^m^m^m^+(g1a^cwm^eiϕ+g2m^a^ccw+Ja^ccwa^cw+H.C.)+(κ1,e/2εp1a^cweiω1t+κ2,e/2εp2a^ccweiω2t+γm,e/2εdm^eiωdt+H.C.),
where ω0 and ωm are the resonance frequencies of the two degenerate microwave modes a^i (i=cw,ccw) and the magnon mode m^ respectively. The frequency of the magnon mode is determined by the static magnetic field H via ωm=γH, where γ/(2π)=28 GHz/T is the gyromagnetic ratio. The magnon Kerr nonlinear term Km^m^m^m^ in Eq. (1) originates from the magnetocrystalline anisotropy in the YIG, where the positive coefficient K=μ0Kanγ/(M2Vm) with the magnetic permeability of free space μ0, the first-order anisotropy constant Kan, the gyromagnetic ratio γ, the saturation magnetization M, and the volume of the YIG sphere Vm [33]. gj (j=1,2) is the linear photon−magnon coupling strength, which can be adjusted by varying the direction of the bias field or the position of the YIG sphere inside the middle of the ring resonator [12]. J is the photon-hopping interaction between two microwave modes. The rest describes the couplings of the driving fields, containing two weak probe fields and a strong control field, to two microwave and magnon modes. The amplitudes of the driving fields are defined as εpj=Pj/(ωj) and εd=Pd/(ωd), where the corresponding input power and frequency are Pj,d and ωj,d respectively. κj,e and γm,e are the external coupling rates of the microwave and magnon modes.
Operating on an interaction picture with respect to the free Hamiltonian H^0=ωd(a^cwa^cw+a^ccwa^ccw+m^m^), we can obtain
a^˙cw=(iΔ0κ1/2)a^cwig1m^eiϕiJa^ccwiκ1,eεp1eiΩ1t+κ1/2a^1,in,
a^˙ccw=(iΔ0κ2/2)a^ccwig2m^iJa^cwiκ2,eεp2eiΩ2t+κ2/2a^2,in,
m^˙=(iΔmγm/2)m^ig1a^cweiϕig2a^ccwi(2Km^m^+K)m^iγm,eεd+γm/2m^in,
where the rotating-wave approximation (RWA) has been used. The detuning parameters Δ0=ω0ωd, Δm=ωmωd, and Ω1,2=ωp1,2ωd. In addition, a^1,in, a^2,in and m^in are the input vacuum noises into the microwave photon and magnon modes, respectively. They can be characterized by the following temperature-dependent correlation functions:
a^j,in(t)a^j,in(t)=[nth(ω0)+1]δ(tt),
a^j,in(t)a^j,in(t)=[nth(ω0)]δ(tt),
m^in(t)m^in(t)=[mth(ωm)+1]δ(tt),
m^in(t)m^in(t)=[mth(ωm)]δ(tt),
where nth(ω0)=[exp(ω0KBT)1]1, and mth(ωm)= [exp(ωmKBT)1]1 with the Boltzmann constant KB and the ambient temperature T, are, respectively, the equilibrium means thermal photon and magnon numbers.
In this work, we focus on the mean response of the system, viz. classical equations of motion. Therefore, in the following, the evolution of the system operators can be reduced to their expectation values, viz., a^cw=acw, a^ccw=accw, m^=m. For the sake of convenience, acw is represented by a1 and accw is represented by a2. Quantum fluctuation corresponding to the two microwave modes and magnon mode of our system can be neglected because their expectation values are zero. Then, the evolution of the three-mode cavity magnonic system can be described by the Heisenberg-Langevin equations as
a˙1=(iΔ0κ1/2)a1ig1meiϕiJa2iκ1,eεp1eiΩ1t,
a˙2=(iΔ0κ2/2)a2ig2miJa1iκ2,eεp2eiΩ2t,
m˙=(iΔmγm/2)mig1a1eiϕig2a2i(2Kmm+K)miγm,eεd.
When the control field is much stronger than the probe field, that is εp1,2εd, we can write each operator for the microwave and magnon modes as a sum of the steady-state and the fluctuation value, i.e., a1=A10+δa1, a2=A20+δa2, and m=M0+δm, where the control field provides a steady-state solution of the three-mode cavity magnonic system, and the probe field can be regarded as a perturbation of the steady-state. According to Eqs. (9)−(11), the steady-state solution of the system can be obtained as
A10=[ig1eiϕ(iΔ0+κ2/2)+Jg2]M0(iΔ0+κ1/2)(iΔ0+κ2/2)+J2,
A20=[ig2(iΔ0+κ1/2)+Jg1eiϕ]M0(iΔ0+κ1/2)(iΔ0+κ2/2)+J2,
M0=γm,eεd[(iΔm+γm/2]2ig1g2Jcosϕg12(iΔ0+κ1/2)g22(iΔ0+κ2/2)(iΔ0+κ1/2)(iΔ0+κ2/2)+J2,
where Δm=Δm+(2K|M0|2+K) is the magnon detuning shifted by the magnon Kerr effect. These equations are coupled to each other and can be solved self-consistently.
Then neglecting the higher nonlinear terms in the magnon Kerr effect in Eqs. (9)−(11), we can obtain a set of linear Heisenberg−Langevin equations for the fluctuation operators:
δa˙1=(iΔ0κ1/2)δa1ig1δmeiϕiJδa2iκ1,eεp1eiΩ1t,
δa˙2=(iΔ0κ2/2)δa2ig2δmiJδa1iκ2,eεp2eiΩ2t,
δm˙=(iΔmγm/2)δmig1δa1eiϕig2δa2i[2KM02δm+(4KM02+K)δm]iγm,eεd.
In order to solve the transmission response of the two microwave modes to the probe field, we make the following ansatz:
δa1=A11+eiΩt+A11eiΩt,
δa2=A21+eiΩt+A21eiΩt,
δm=M1+eiΩt+M1eiΩt.
When Ω=Ω1, representing the probe field input from one microwave cavity mode a1, we mainly focus on the photons of intracavity mode a2 expressing as A21. On the contrary, when Ω=Ω2, representing the probe field input from the other microwave cavity mode a2, we mainly focus on the photons of intracavity mode a1 expressing as A12. In what follows, substituting Eqs. (18)−(20) into Eqs. (15)−(17), we can obtain
A21=ig2(ξm1+ξm14K2M04J2)Ξ14η1κ1εp1/Υ1,
A12=ig1(ξm2+ξm24K2M04J2)Ξ24η2κ2εp2/Υ2,
where
Υ1=Ξ12Ξ13Ξ11Ξ14,
Υ2=Ξ22Ξ23Ξ21Ξ24,
Ξ11=(ig2Δ1+Λ2++ig1g2ξ2++Jg2ξm1+)ξm14K2M04Jg2Λ+,
Ξ12=2KM02Δ2Γ1+ξ1+2KM02Jζ1+Λ2,
Ξ13=2KM02Δ2+Γ1ξ1++2KM02Jζ1Λ2+,
Ξ14=(ig2Δ1Λ2+ig1g2ξ2+Jg2ξm1)ξm1+4K2M04Jg2Λ,
Ξ21=(ig1Δ2+eiϕΛ1++ig1g2ξ1++Jg1ξm2+eiϕ)ξm24K2M04Jg1eiϕΛ+,
Ξ22=2KM02Δ1Γ2+ξ2+2KM02Jζ2+Λ1,
Ξ23=2KM02Δ1+Γ2ξ2++2KM02Jζ2Λ1+,
Ξ24=(ig1Δ2eiϕΛ1+ig1g2ξ1+Jg1ξm2eiϕ)ξm2+4K2M04Jg1Λ,
and Δ1±=i(Δ0Ω)κ1/2, Δ2±=i(Δ0Ω)κ2/2, Δm±=i(ΔmΩ+4KM02+K)γm/2, ξ1±=g2Δ1±eiϕ+iJg1, ξ2±=g1Δ2±+iJg2eiϕ, ξm1±=iJΔm±g1g2eiϕ, ξm2±= iJΔm±g1g2eiϕ, Λ1±=Δ1±Δm±+g12, Λ2±=Δ2±Δm±+g22, Λ±=Δ1±Δ2±+J2, ζ1±=Jg1eiϕig2Δ1±, ζ2±=Jg2ig1Δ2±eiϕ, Γ1±=g2Δ1±+iJg1eiϕ, Γ2±=g1Δ2±eiϕ+iJg2. According to the standard input-output relation [61,62], the output fields a2(out) and a1(out) can be written as follows:
a2(out)=κ2,eA21,
a1(out)=κ1,eA12.
Then we define T21 and T12 as the transmission coefficients for the probe field input from a1(in) and a2(in) directions, with
T21a2(out)εp1,T12a1(out)εp2.
It can be seen that it is very difficult and tedious to give an analytical and simplified solution to the two output fields. To verify our theory and show the nonreciprocal microwave transmission in this cavity magnonic system under the joint mechanism of phase modulation and magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect, a more convenient practice is to use numerical calculations based on existing expressions.
In order to intuitively observe the differences between the output fields |a2(out)|2 and a1(out)2, we define a dimensionless quantity I to describe the efficiency of the nonreciprocal transmission of the probe field, regarded as the isolation ratio:
I=10|log10a2(out)2a1(out)2|,
with the unit of I being dB. If I=0, that is |a2(out)|2/|a1(out)|2=1, which represents one case of reciprocal transmission. When the value of I is nonzero, it presents another case of nonreciprocal transmission, and the greater the value of I, the higher degree of the nonreciprocal transmission of the probe field.
To study the nonreciprocal transmission of the probe field under the joint mechanism of phase modulation and magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect, we plot Fig.2(a), which shows the calculation results of isolation ratio I vary with the total phase difference ϕ and the pump power Pd of the control field. We use ωm/(2π)=10.1 GHz, κ1/(2π)=3.8 MHz, γm/(2π)=17.5 MHz, J/(2π)=20 MHz, g1/(2π)=41 MHz, K/κ1=1010. According to K=μ0Kanγ/(M2Vm), we know that the Kerr coefficient is inversely proportional to Vm, i.e., KVm1. Once the diameter size of the YIG sphere can be reduced to about 10 microns, the value of K can be increased by three orders of magnitude from the previous several hundred nHz [33]. Until now, nanoscale magnetic particles [6,63] are already common, and so we think the micron-sized YIG sphere is very possible in experiment. It can be observed that the bright regions are symmetrically distributed about the center of phase ϕ=π. On the one hand, when ϕ=0 or 2π, the areas we see remain dark with the increase of the pump power, which indicates that in the absence of phase effect, the current magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect is too weak to cause nonreciprocity. On the other hand, when Pd=0 mW, the value of I is always several dB as the phase changes. These suggest that based on the existing parameters, it is difficult to achieve strong nonreciprocal transmission only under the single mechanism of phase modulation or magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect. Moreover, we find that the value of I does not increase monotonically with the power enhanced, which is attributed to the destructive coherence between the phase modulation and the magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect. Based on the available experimental parameters, the power range required for obtaining large isolation rates is mainly concentrated in the range less than 100 mW. In addition, to simplify, we will present a discussion of the nonreciprocal transmission of the probe field in the range of ϕ(0,π/2) in what follows.
Fig.2 (a) The calculation results of the isolation ratio I (dB) vary with the phase ϕ and the power Pd of the control field, where Δm=Ω1,2=γm. (b) The calculation results of the isolation ratio I (dB) vary with the frequency detuning Ω and the external magnetic field H, where ϕ=π/2, Pd=100 mW. The other parameters are ωm/(2π)=10.1 GHz, κ1/(2π)=3.8 MHz, κ2=κ1, γm/(2π)=17.5 MHz, J/(2π)=20 MHz, g1/(2π)=41 MHz, g2=g1, K/κ1=1010, κ1,e=0.5κ1, κ2,e=0.5κ2, γm,e=0.5γm, Δ0=γm, which are based on the latest experimental parameters [21, 33].

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The calculation results of isolation ratio I plotted as a function of the frequency detuning Ω and the external magnetic field H are shown in Fig.2(b), which gives us a clear perspective for the tunability of the probe field and the magnetic field. Fig.2(b) shows an obvious level repulsion of the hybridized three modes and several separated gaps, which are determined by the coupling strength among them. It can be observed that the frequency of the magnon corresponding to the operating range of the H is compared to the Ω, with greater adjustable range (about 4 times) to obtain the strong nonreciprocal transmission. These results confirm that such a microwave nonreciprocity system with a large isolation ratio could be obtained from a ring resonator cavity within a small YIG sphere, and its essential factor originates from the joint action of the phase modulation and the magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect.

3 3 The features of nonreciprocal microwave transmission

Different from the previous research of nonreciprocal transmission based on general phase [48] or magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect [57], in this work, we will in detail discuss the joint effects of phase modulation and magnon Kerr nonlinearity on the nonreciprocal transmission of the probe field. According to the Eqs. (35) and (36), the curves plotted for the transmission coefficients and the isolation ratios of the probe field are shown in Fig.3, which reveals the differences of the microwave transmission along forward and backward directions under various pump powers of the control field. Fig.3(a) exhibits the transmission coefficients at a linear response system when Pd=0 mW. It can be found that two transmission coefficients T21 (blue solid curve) and T12 (red dashed curve) are symmetrically distributed with respect to Ω=γm due to Δ0=Δm=γm, and the three prominent peaks are induced by the hybridization between microwave photons and magnons. With the increase of the power Pd in Fig.3(b), both the locations of the peaks of T21 and T12 have changed greatly, and the amplitude intensity of the transmission coefficients is also enhanced, which indicates the magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect has played a role.
Fig.3 (a−c) Transmission coefficients T21 (blue solid curve) and T12 (red dashed curve) are plotted as functions of the frequency detuning Ω for different g2 and the powers Pd of the control field. (d) The calculation results of the isolation ratio I vary with the frequency detuning Ω under different powers Pd of the control field. We use ϕ=π/2, and the other parameters are the same as in Fig.2.

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According to the description of Fig.3(a) and (b), we find that when ϕ=π/2 in Fig.3, relatively high power is needed to realize the nonreciprocal microwave transmission. In order not to increase the power, we attempt to transform other variables, such as the magnon−photon coupling strength, which can be engineered by changing the microwave mode volume and frequency, engineering the field overlap, and utilizing materials with different spin densities, to achieve the nonreciprocal transmission of the probe field. During experimental measurements, the coupling strength can be tuned dynamically by changing the position between the YIG sphere and the circuit to effectively tune the field overlap factor, adding an additional ground plate to modify the microwave field distribution, and tuning the temperature [55]. Therefore, we draw Fig.3(c) with g2=1.2g1. It can be observed that especially for T21, there are two significant pattern splits for the original two peaks, then becoming four evident peak points. Moreover, the spacing between two adjacent peaks becomes narrower and the intensity of the T21 and T12 gets amplified. This explains that under this condition, the magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect makes the system essentially change, and the change is positive, which makes the obtained nonreciprocal effect stronger. In particular, when Ω is in the range of about 2γm to γm or γm to 2γm, where the range of the probe field corresponding to operating bandwidth can reach dozens MHz, we can obtain a large isolation ratio, which benefits from the constructive coherence of the phase modulation and the magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect. To understand the differences between the transmission coefficients T21 and T12 more intuitively, the calculation results of I are shown in Fig.3(d) for different powers. When the power is set to 100 mW, the maximum isolation rate reaches 19.6 dB. However, when the power increases to 150 mW, the isolation rate of the maximum value decreases to 16 dB, which indicates the effect of the joint mechanism of phase modulation and magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect is no longer increased, but suppressed when the control field power exceeds a certain threshold.
In order to understand the influence of different phases on the nonreciprocal transmission of the probe field, we give the numerical simulations of the transmission coefficient in Fig.4. Here we adjust the magnitude of the relative phase ϕ to π/4, and find that π/4 is the optimal magnitude of the phase for the nonreciprocal transmission. Compared to Fig.3(a), only the positions of the peaks have changed in Fig.4(a), where the nonreciprocal transmission of the probe field is less obvious. Once we enhance the power to 4 mW in Fig.4(b), two curves of the transmission coefficients T21 and T12, have changed substantially in comparison with Fig.4(a). The magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect starts to play a role and leads to three-mode split, where we can observe four peak points.
Fig.4 Transmission coefficients T21 (blue solid curve) and T12 (red dashed curve) are plotted as functions of the frequency detuning Ω under different powers Pd of the control field. From (a) to (d), Pd is 0 mW, 4 mW, 10 mW, 100 mW respectively. We use ϕ=π/4, and the other parameters are the same as in Fig.2.

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Moreover, the range of the frequency detuning Ω for obtaining the nonreciprocal transmission also gets increased, that is the adjustable isolation bandwidth about 68 MHz from γm to γm. As the power increases to 10 mW in Fig.4(c), it is unexpected to find that not only the value of T21 and T12 is decreased, but also the split patterns tend to merge instead. Finally, when we consider Pd=100 mW to continue to enhance the magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect in Fig.4(d), the nonreciprocity effect also has a tendency to decline on the contrary. This reveals that in some circumstances, the quantum interference induced by the phase modulation between multiple channels and the magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect can be mutually inhibited, which is not conducive to the generation of nonreciprocal transmission.
According to the above exhibition of nonreciprocal microwave transmission regulated by the frequency detuning Ω shown in Fig.3 and Fig.4, it is found that when the nonreciprocal transmission can be realized, the adjustable frequency range of the probe field is not very large. Therefore, for the sake of expanding the operability on manipulating the nonreciprocal transmission, we try to change another variable, i.e., the external magnetic field, which is generated by a superconducting magnet to magnetize the YIG sphere and can be varied over a wide range (from 0 to 1 T). Fig.5 shows the transmission coefficients T21 (greed solid curve) and T12 (purple dashed curve) as functions of the external magnetic field H for different powers Pd of the control field.
Fig.5 Transmission coefficients T21 (greed solid curve) and T12 (purple dashed curve) are plotted as functions of the external magnetic field H under different powers Pd of the control field. From (a) to (d), Pd is 0 mW, 7 mW, 10 mW, 12 mW respectively. We use ϕ=π/4, and the other parameters are the same as in Fig.2.

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In Fig.5(a), one can see that the curve changes of both T21 and T12 are relatively smooth in a linear response system with Pd=0 mW. When we consider applying an external drive to the magnon mode in Fig.5(b) and (c), peaks and troughs of the tips begin to appear, which explains that the magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect plays a role in the nonreciprocal transmission of the probe field. In addition, the difference value between T21 and T12 is gradually pulling apart, that is, the effect of the nonreciprocal transmission is gradually increasing. As the power continues to increase, we can find that the operating range of the magnetic field for observing the nonreciprocal microwave transmission is also enlarged, but the amplitude intensities of the transmission coefficients decrease instead, as shown in Fig.5(d). Therefore, the use of magnetic field can indeed enlarge the adjustable range of nonreciprocal transmission and enhance the practical application value, but the isolation ratio of nonreciprocal transmission has not been significantly improved.
In order to effectively raise the isolation ratio I of the nonreciprocal microwave transmission, we show the value of I as functions of the external magnetic field H for different powers Pd in Fig.6, with two different g2. As a contrast, we plot Fig.6(a), where g1=g2, and one can observe that as the magnetic field changes, the obtained value of I is almost no more than 6 dB. However, when g1=1.3g2, which induces the optimal possible results in Fig.6(b), there exists an extremely large magnetic tunable region that causes the value of I to exceed 10 dB, which presents a great difference on the transmission of the probe field between the forward and backward incidences. Especially when the power is equal to 12 or 16 mW, not only the value of I is significantly improved, but also it enables us to obtain a high isolation rate (>20 dB) that can be manipulated by the magnetic field in a large adjustable range, and its corresponding to the operating bandwidths can reach thousands MHz. This indicates that two different cavity-magnon couplings are very beneficial to the realization of the strong nonreciprocal microwave transmission. In addition, as the power increases gradually [seeing the green dotted line], the value of the corresponding isolation ratio is decreasing on the whole, which may be due to the destructive coherence between phase modulation and magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect. Finally, we can conclude that when two microwave modes are coupled to the magnon mode via a different coupling strength, the strong nonreciprocal transmission can be obtained even at low power.
Fig.6 The isolation ratios I of the nonreciprocal microwave transmission are plotted as functions of the external magnetic field H under different powers Pd of the control field and g2. We use ϕ=π/4, and the other parameters are the same as in Fig.2.

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4 4 Conclusions

In summary, the nonreciprocal microwave transmission under the joint mechanism of phase modulation and magnon Kerr nonlinear effect has been studied in a three-mode cavity magnonics system. In order to describe the characteristics of nonreciprocal transmission under the above joint mechanism, we employed the quantum Langevin equation under rotating wave approximation by using the perturbation method. By taking advantage of the magnetic field with a intrinsically good flexibility, we have exhibited a variable nonreciprocal transmission at different phases and powers of the control field. In contrast to using the phase difference or magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect, we find that the modulation of the twofold mechanism makes the nonreciprocal transmission occur even at low power and its effect can be further enhanced under certain conditions. In addition, when two microwave modes are coupled to the magnon mode via a different coupling strength, it is found that the isolation rate can get drastically enhanced within a certain range of power and we can obtain the strong nonreciprocal transmission with a large tunable range of the magnetic field, which is the result of the constructive coherence of quantum interference induced by the phase difference and magnon Kerr nonlinearity effect. These exotic features of the three-cavity magnonics system extremely widen new perspectives for exploring the nonreciprocity, and it has great potential applications in magnetically controlled isolators, optical diodes and so on.

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