Cavity magnonics and bound states in the continuum with Bragg and anti-Bragg mirrors

arXiv:2609.34365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A periodic resonant emitter array coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide can act as a mirror. A typical example is a Bragg mirror, where emitters are spaced by multiples of half wavelengths and collectively enhance light reflection. Two such mirrors form an effective cavity that hosts bound states in the continuum (BICs). However, generating and detecting the spatial profiles of such BICs has proven challenging. Here, we experimentally demonstrate BICs in cavity magnonics using two periodic ferrimagnetic-sphere arrays and a probe sphere in a dual-open-waveguide architecture. We realize both Bragg and anti-Bragg cavities, whose mirrors have different lattice constants. In the Bragg cavity, there are degenerate supermodes formed by mirror spheres. We show that a single dark supermode coherently couples to the probe magnon in the cavity region, forming two polaritons whose splitting scales with both the probe-sphere size and the number of mirror spheres. By contrast, the anti-Bragg cavity has bright and dark supermodes in a bandgap, substantially changing the magnon-cavity interaction. Moreover, by moving the probe sphere, we perform position-dependent detection of the cavity field, highlighting the role of BICs in these cavities. Our flexible experimental setup with a scanning probe opens possibilities to detect other exotic states created by light-matter interaction, to interface with superconducting circuits in hybrid quantum networks, and to study non-Hermitian physics with Bragg and anti-Bragg cavities.

Abstract:A periodic resonant emitter array coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide can act as a mirror. A typical example is a Bragg mirror, where emitters are spaced by multiples of half wavelengths and collectively enhance light reflection. Two such mirrors form an effective cavity that hosts bound states in the continuum (BICs). However, generating and detecting the spatial profiles of such BICs has proven challenging. Here, we experimentally demonstrate BICs in cavity magnonics using two periodic ferrimagnetic-sphere arrays and a probe sphere in a dual-open-waveguide architecture. We realize both Bragg and anti-Bragg cavities, whose mirrors have different lattice constants. In the Bragg cavity, there are degenerate supermodes formed by mirror spheres. We show that a single dark supermode coherently couples to the probe magnon in the cavity region, forming two polaritons whose splitting scales with both the probe-sphere size and the number of mirror spheres. By contrast, the anti-Bragg cavity has bright and dark supermodes in a bandgap, substantially changing the magnon-cavity interaction. Moreover, by moving the probe sphere, we perform position-dependent detection of the cavity field, highlighting the role of BICs in these cavities. Our flexible experimental setup with a scanning probe opens possibilities to detect other exotic states created by light-matter interaction, to interface with superconducting circuits in hybrid quantum networks, and to study non-Hermitian physics with Bragg and anti-Bragg cavities.

Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)

arXiv:2609.34365 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2609.34365v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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