"Emergent spatiotemporal order and nonreciprocity in driven-dissipative nonlinear magnetic systems"

Presented by Dr. Benedetta Flebus, Assistant Professor, from Boston College

The identification of platforms with independently tunable nonlinearity and non-Hermiticity promises a quantitative route to far-from-equilibrium universality across many-body systems. Here we show that a conventional ferromagnetic multilayer realizes this paradigm: balancing a dc drive against Gilbert damping stabilizes a self-organized, current-carrying nonequilibrium condensate that spontaneously breaks spacetime-translation symmetry. The chirality of this spin superfluid limit cycle state generates an inherently nonreciprocal flow: long-wavelength magnons of opposite chirality acquire asymmetric dispersions and propagate direction-selectively, realizing a spin superfluid diode. This asymmetry is flow-borne -- it reflects broken Galilean invariance and requires neither structural asymmetry nor finely tuned gain–loss balance. Linearized dynamics in the comoving superfluid frame are intrinsically pseudo-Hermitian and, in the long-wavelength sector, can be mapped to a (1+1)D wave equation on curved spacetime. Spatial modulation of the drive enables the generation of sonic horizons that parametrically squeeze magnons and produce Hawking-like particle–hole emission. Our results establish a tabletop route from nonlinear dissipative-driven magnetization dynamics to nonreciprocal transport,  nonequilibrium phase transitions, and analogue-gravity kinematics.