title: Making a reconfigurable artificial crystal by ordering bistable magnetic nanowires.
abstract: Spin-wave excitations (magnons) are investigated in a one-dimensional (1D) magnonic crystal fabricated out of Ni80Fe20 nanowires. We find two different magnon band structures depending on the magnetic ordering of neighboring wires, i.e., parallel and antiparallel alignment. At a zero in-plane magnetic field H the modes of the antiparallel case are close to those obtained by zone folding of the spin-wave dispersions of the parallel case. This is no longer true for nonzero H which opens a forbidden frequency gap at the Brillouin zone boundary. The 1D stop band gap scales with the external field, which generates a periodic potential for Bragg reflection of the magnons.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Angewandte Physik und Mikrostrukturforschungszentrum, Universität Hamburg, Jungiusstrasse 11, D-20355 Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Jesco
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Topp
authors.forename: Detlef
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Heitmann
authors.forename: Mikhail P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Kostylev
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Grundler