*  marks the corresponding author, † marks the equal contributions

Our publications can also be found at Google scholar, ResearchGate, ORCID.

Preprint

• 1.  H. Y. Yuan and Yaroslav Blanter, Breaking surface plasmon excitation constraint via surface spin waves, arXiv: 2402.04626v1 (We showed that spin wave excitation can help to generate transverse electric surface plasmons, which is an outstanding challenge in photonics.This is the starting point of our group to study the interplay of  spintronics, plasmonic photonics and low-dimensional physics.)

• 2. Mario Gaspar Quarenta, Mithuss Tharmalingam, Tim Ludwig, H. Y. Yuan*, Lukasz Karwacki, Robin Verstraten, Rembert Duine, Bath-induced spin inertia, arXiv: 2310.05621. (We show that high-frequency modes in a bath can induce inertia effect in the magnetization dynamics and this may explain the nutation term of LLG equation observed in experiments.)

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Year 2024 The journey in Hangzhou starts.

• 1.Daan van Seters, Tim Ludwig, H. Y. Yuan*, and Rembert A. Duine, Dissipative-free modes in dissipative systems. Phys. Scr. 99, 085908 (2024). (A collective dissipation-free mode can be generated when two physical modes share one bath. The essential physics shares certain similarities to our series of papers on the prediction of attractive level attraction and proper dissipative torques in antiferromagnets. The quantum version can be found in our paper on the master equation approach to magnon relaxation and dephasing. )  

• 2. J. S. Harms, H. Y. Yuan*, and Rembert A. Duine, Antimagnonics, AIP Adv. 14, 025303 (2024). (Here is a perspective article. We introduced the concept of antimagnons and its application in designing spintronic  devices in detail.)  

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Year 2023 Time to make another decision.

• 1. Shasha Zheng, Zhenyu Wang, Yipu Wang, Fengxiao Sun, Qiongyi He, Peng Yan, H. Y. Yuan*, Tutorial: Nonlinear magnonics, J. Appl. Phys. 134, 151101 (2023). (We introduce the nonlinear interactions among magnons and other physical systems including photons, phonons and qubits in a hybrid magnetic system and the emerged nonlinear physical phenomena.)

• 2. Zhejunyu Jin, Xianglong Yao, Zhenyu Wang, H. Y. Yuan, Zhaozhuo Zeng, Weiwei Wang, Yunshan Cao, Peng Yan, Nonlinear Topological Magnon Spin Hall Effect. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166704 (2023). (Editors' suggestion)

• 3. H. Y. Yuan, Jikun Xie, and Rembert A. Duine, Magnon bundle in a strongly dissipative magnet, Phy. Rev. Applied. 19. 064070 (2023). (Editors' suggestion; we show that two or more magnons with the same angular momentum can be generated simultaneously by coupling the magnetic system to a superconducting qubit.)

• 4. Jikun Xie, H. Y. Yuan*, Shengli Ma, Shaoyan Gao, Fuli Ma, and Rembert A. Duine, Stationary quantum entanglement and steering between two distant magnets.  Quantum Science and Technology 8, 035022 (2023).

• 5. Zhenyu Wang, Zhi-Xiong Li, H. Y. Yuan, Zhi-Zhi Zhang, Yunshan Cao, Peng Yan, Topological states and quantum effects in magnonics. Acta Physica Sinica 72, 057503 (2023). (This is a review article on toplogical and quantum states of magnons.)

• 6. H. Y. Yuan, R. Lavrijsen, and Rembert A. Duine, Unidirectional magnetic coupling, Phys. Rev. B 107, 024418 (2023). (We proposed that the combination of chiral exchange interaction and nonlocal damping can help to generate a unidirectional propagation of spin waves.)  

Year 2022 A surprising year!

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• 1. J. S. Harms, H. Y. Yuan*, Rembert A. Duine, Enhanced Magnon Spin Current Using the Bosonic Klein Paradox. Phy. Rev. Applied. 18, 064026 (2022). (We first introduced the concept of antimagnons and showed how it can help to amplify spin currents through the magnonic Klein effects.)  

• 2. H. Y. Yuan, W. P. Sterk, Akashdeep Kamra, and Rembert A. Duine, Pure dephasing of magnonic quantum states. Phys. Rev. B 106, L100403 (2022). (Letter)

• 2'. H. Y. Yuan, W. P. Sterk, Akashdeep Kamra, and Rembert A. Duine, Master equation approach to magnon relaxation and dephasing. Phys. Rev. B 106, 224422 (2022).

•  (In these two back-to-back papers, we developed the theoretical framework to study the dynamics of quantum states of magnons based on the master equation approach. As an example, we show that the pure dephasing channels of magnons can significantly contribute to the decoherence of magnon quantum states.)  

• 4. Zhenyu Wang, H. Y. Yuan, Yunshan Cao, and Peng Yan, Twisted magnon frequency comb and Penrose superradiance. Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 107203 (2022).

• 5. H. Y. Yuan*, Xichao Zhang, and Cynthia Reichardt, Editorial: Generation, Detection and Manipulation of Skyrmions in Magnetic Nanostructures. Front. Phys. 10, 964975 (2022). (This is the editorial article for the special topic of magnetic skyrmions.)

• 6. H. Y. Yuan*, Y. Cao, A. Kamra, R. A. Duine, and P. Yan, Quantum magnonics: when magnon spintronics meets quantum information science. Phys. Rep. 965, 1-74 (2022). (Highly cited and hot papers in ESI. Here is a review article on quantum magnonics, which has been well received by the community.)

Year 2021 Dutch school, Dutch university, Dutch life.

• 1. W. P. Sterk, H. Y. Yuan, A. Rükriegel, B. Z. Rameshti, and Rembert A. Duine, Green's function formalism for elliptical magnon transport. Phys. Rev. B 104, 174404 (2021).

• 2. H. Y. Yuan*, Akashdeep Kamra, Dion M. F. Hartmann, and Rembert A. Duine, Electrically switchable entanglement channel in van der Waals magnets. Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 024047 (2021). (Here we showed that electric gating can tune the entanglement of magnons in a magnetic bilayer via changing the magnetic anisotropy and intralayer exchange interaction.)

• 3. Zhenyu Wang†, H. Y. Yuan†*, Yunshan Cao, Z.-X. Li, R. A. Duine, and Peng Yan, Magnonic frequency comb via nonlinear magnon-skyrmion scattering. Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 037202 (2021). (Here we  proposed that three magnon interaction can help to generate magnon frequency comb, which has been verified in experiments and become a popular topic in spintronics.)

• 4. H. Y. Yuan and Rembert A. Duine, Universal field dependence of magnetic resonance near zero frequency. Phys. Rev. B 103, 134440 (2021). (Here we built an interesting connection between soft magnon excitation and phase transition using Landau theory. The excited soft magnons may help to amplify spin currents.)

• 5. H. Y. Yuan, Shasha Zheng, Q. Y. He, Jiang Xiao, and Rembert A. Duine, Unconventional magnon excitation by off-resonant microwaves. Phys. Rev. B 103, 134409 (2021). 

• 6. H. Y. Yuan, Zhe Yuan, Rembert A. Duine and X. R. Wang, Recent progress in antiferromagnetic dynamics. EPL 132, 57001 (2020). (Invited review)

Year 2020 A big decision to move to Netherlands.

• 1. H. Y. Yuan and R. A. Duine, Magnon antibunching in a nanomagnet, Phys. Rev. B 102, 100402(R) (2020). (Editor's suggestion, Rapid Communications)

• 2. S. S. Zheng, F. X. Sun, H. Y. Yuan, Z. Ficek, Q. H. Gong, and Q. Y. He, Enhanced entanglement and asymmetric EPR steering between magnons. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 64, 210311 (2020).

• 3. Y. Jiang†, H. Y. Yuan†, Z.-X. Li, Zhenyu Wang, H. W. Zhang, Yunshan Cao, and Peng Yan, Twisted magnon as a magnetic tweezer. Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 217204 (2020). (Co-first author)

• 4. H. Y. Yuan*, Weichao Yu, Jiang Xiao, Loop theory for input-output problems in cavities. Phys. Rev. A 101, 043824 (2020). (We developed a simple and elegant graph theory to calculate the input-output relation in hybrid cavity systems.)

• 5. Gong Xin, H. Y. Yuan*, and X. R. Wang, Current-driven skyrmion motion in granular films.  Phys. Rev. B 101, 064421 (2020). 

• 6. H. Y. Yuan*, Peng Yan, Shasha Zheng, Q. Y. He, Ke Xia and Man-Hong Yung, Steady Bell state generation via magnon-photon coupling. Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 053602 (2020). (Highly Cited Paper in ESI. We showed that non-Hermitian interaction between magnons and photons can generate steady magnon-photon entanglement.)

• 7. H. Y. Yuan*, Shasha Zheng, Zbigniew Ficek, Q. Y. He, and Man-Hong Yung, Enhancement of magnon-magnon entanglement inside a cavity. Phys. Rev. B 101, 014419 (2020). (We first pointed out the entanglement of antiferroamgnetic magnons and further show that the entanglement can be enhanced by cavity photons.)

Year 2019 Stay in the comfort zone or go for something unknown?

• 1. Weichao Yu, Jiongjie Wang, H. Y. Yuan, and Jiang Xiao, Prediction of attractive level crossing via a dissipative mode. Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 227201 (2019). (We developed the theoretical framework of dissiaptive and coherent coupling to understand the energy level attraction and repulsion in experiments.)

• 2. H. Y. Yuan, Man-Hong Yung, and X. R. Wang, Anomolies in switching dynamics of C-type antiferromagnets and antiferromagnetic nanowires. Phys. Rev. Research 1, 033052 (2019).

• 3. H. Y. Yuan, Qian Liu, Ke Xia, Zhe Yuan, X. R. Wang, Proper dissipative torques in antiferromagnetic dynamics. EPL 126, 67006 (2019). Preprint at arXiv:1801.00217v1. (We first predicted the existence of inter-sublattice damping in antiferromagnets, which is supported by the first principle calculation; see 2nd article in Year 2017)

• 4. Huanhuan Yang, H. Y. Yuan*, Ming Yan, and Peng Yan, Atomic antiferromagnetic domain wall propagation beyond the relativistic limit. Phys. Rev. B 100, 024407 (2019). 

• 5. H. Y. Yuan*, X. S. Wang, Man-Hong Yung, and X. R. Wang, Wiggling skyrmion propagation under parametric pumping. Phys. Rev. B 99, 014428 (2019).

Year 2018 I start doing some quantum staff.

• 1. H. Y. Yuan*, and Man-Hong Yung, Anomalous spin entanglement in non-equilibrium systems. Phys. Rev. A 98, 022125 (2018). 

• 2. H. Y. Yuan*, Man-Hong Yung, and X. R. Wang, Emergence of antiferromagnetic quantum domain wall. Phys. Rev. B 98, 060407 (R) (2018). (Rapid Communications)

• 3. X. S. Wang, H. Y. Yuan, and X. R. Wang, A theory on skyrmion size. Commun. Phys. 1, 31 (2018). (We proposed a nice theory on skyrmion size, which has been well received by the community.)

• 4. H. Y. Yuan, Weiwei Wang, Man-Hong Yung, and X. R. Wang, Classification of magnetic forces acting on an antiferromagnetic domain wall. Phys. Rev. B 97, 214434 (2018). (We clarify the physical mechanism of antiferromagnetic domain wall motion driven by inhomogeneous magnetic fields.)

• 5. Keming Pan, Lingdi Xing, H. Y. Yuan, and Weiwei Wang, Driving chiral domain walls in antiferromagnets using rotating magnetic fields, Phys. Rev. B 97, 184418 (2018).

• 6. Yin Zhang, H. Y. Yuan*, X. S. Wang, and X. R. Wang, Breaking the current density threshold in spin-orbit magnetic random access memory. Phys. Rev. B 97, 144416 (2018). (We proposed that the minimum current density to switch a magnetization can be significantly reduced by designing the combination of two current pulses.)

• 7. H. Y. Yuan*  and Man-Hong Yung, Thermal entanglement in magnonic condensates. Phys. Rev. B 97, 060405 (R) (2018). (Rapid Communications, My first article in the entangled world.)

Year 2017 A big decision to move to Shenzhen.

• 1. H. Y. Yuan*, O. Gomonay, and Mathias Kläui, Skyrmions and multi-sublattice helical states in a frustrated chiral magnet. Phys. Rev. B 96, 134415 (2017). (The take-home message is that frustration can increase the stability regime of magnetic skyrmions.)

• 2. Qian Liu, H. Y. Yuan*, Zhe Yuan, and Ke Xia, Mode-dependent damping in metallic antiferromagnets due to intersublattice spin pumping. Phys. Rev. Mater. 1, 061401 (R) (2017). (Co-first author, Rapid communications, see 3rd article in Year 2019 for a comprehensive theory on intersublattice damping.)

• 3. B. Dong, J. Cramer, K. Ganzhorn, H. Y. Yuan, E. Guo, S. T. B. Goennenwein, and Mathias Kläui, Spin Hall magnetoresistance in the non-collinear ferrimagnet GdIG close to the compensation temperature. J Phys.: Condens. Matter 30, 035802 (2017).

• 4. H. Y. Yuan and X. R. Wang, Magnon-photon coupling in antiferromagnets. Appl. Phys. Lett. 110, 082403 (2017). (We showed that antiferromagnetic magnons and THz photons can reach the strong coupling regime, which has been verified in experiments.)

• 5. Y. Zhang, X. S. Wang, H. Y. Yuan, S. S. Kang, H. W. Zhang, and X. R. Wang, Dynamic magnetic susceptibility and electrical detection of ferromagnetic resonance. J Phys.: Condens. Matter 29, 095806 (2017).

Year 2016 A year of wandering.

• 1. H. Y. Yuan, Zhe Yuan, Ke Xia, and X. R. Wang, Influence of nonlocal damping on the field-driven domain wall motion. Phys. Rev. B  94, 064415 (2016).

• 2. H. Y. Yuan and X. R. Wang, Skyrmion creation and manipulation by nano-second current pulses, Sci. Rep. 6, 22638 (2016).

Year 2015 and before Finished? No, it's just the beginning.

• 1. H. Y. Yuan and X. R. Wang, Nano magnetic vortex wall guide, AIP Advances 5, 117104 (2015). (Here we proposed a method to overcome the vortex Hall effect by introducing two magnetic layers with proper strength of non-adiabatic spin transfer torque.)

• 2. H. Y. Yuan and X. R. Wang, Vortex-assisted domain wall depinning and propagation in notched nanowires, Eur. Phys. J. B 88, 214 (2015). 

• 3. H. Y. Yuan and X. R. Wang, Boosting domain wall propagation by notches, Phys. Rev. B 92, 054419 (2015).

• (In contrast to general wisdom, we found notches can boost the domain wall propagation by transforming the domain wall's internal structure.)

• 4. H. Y. Yuan, Y. Zhang, and X. R. Wang, A versatile vortex nanodevice, Materials Research Innovations 19, S50 (2015). 

• 5. H. Y. Yuan and X. R. Wang, Domain wall pinning in notched nanowires, Phys. Rev. B 89, 054423 (2014).

• (We developed an analytical theory to predict depinning field of domain wall at a notch.)

• 6. H. Y. Yuan and X. R. Wang, Birth, growth and death of an antivortex during the propagation of a transverse domain wall in magnetic nanostrips, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 368, 70 (2014). 

• 7. W. Zhu, H. Y. Yuan, Q. W. Shi, J. G. Hou, and X. R. Wang, Topological transition of graphene from quantum Hall metal to quantum Hall insulator at $ u=0$, New J. Phys. 13, 113008 (2011). 

• 8. W. Zhu, H. Y. Yuan, Q. W. Shi, J. G. Hou, and X. R. Wang, Shape of Landau subbands in disordered graphene, Phys. Rev. B 83, 153408 (2011).