A collaboration between researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's EQUATE program and Wichita State University was recently published in the high-impact-factor journal ACS Nano. The study, "Probing GHz Spin Dynamics across Magnetic Phase Transitions in CrCl3 Nanoflakes Using Nitrogen-Vacancy Microscopy," examines the spin dynamics of CrCl3 at its magnetic phase transitions; researchers found that CrCl3 becomes magnetically "noisy" in its ferromagnetic state. Understanding the magnetic fluctuations is a crucial step toward designing future devices that use waves of magnetism (called magnons) to process or transmit information more efficiently than conventional electronics. These results are crucial for the use of CrCl3 in 2D magnonics and hybrid quantum-magnon systems.
This work is led by EQUATE undergraduate student Ben Hammons and EQUATE postdoc Dr. Jitender Kumar in collaboration with Xia Hong and her EQUATE students: Tianlin Li and Aram Pirali.
