Revisiting the coupled oscillator-applications in spin cavitronics

Coupled harmonic oscillators appear repeatedly in a wide range of physical problems and are common fare in undergraduate physics. Can there be anything new in such a simple and well-studied system? In this talk, I will show that the physics of the coupled oscillators strongly depend on nature of the coupling force, which does not have to be conservative. The coupling via non-conservative forces, or dissipative coupling, leads to dynamic behavior that may be very different from common expectations. After discussing the physics of dissipative coupling in mechanical oscillators and electronic RLC oscillators, I will demonstrate how it manifests itself in the field of spin cavitronics, which studies the interaction between the magnetic order and electromagnetic waves in microwave cavities.