Magnon-polaritons in ferromagnetic magnonic crystals with graphene at the interfaces

We present a theoretical study for the surface and bulk magnon-polaritons in magnonic crystals (or semi-infinite layered superlattices), which are formed from an array of ferromagnetic materials and nonmagnetic spacers with graphene sheets interposed between them. The external medium is taken to be vacuum. The Fermi energies in the graphene can be varied by employing different electronic doping levels, resulting in a strong influence exerted by the presence of graphene on the surface magnon-polariton modes. These effects include localization of the modes and control of the group velocities of the modes as the Fermi energies of the graphene sheets are varied, along with an important role for the phenomenological damping in the graphene sheets. (paper)