Excitation of the Gyrotropic Mode in a Magnetic Vortex by Time-Varying Strain

We demonstrate the excitation of the gyrotropic mode in a magnetostrictive vortex by time-varying strain. The vortex dynamics is driven by a time-varying voltage applied to the piezoelectric substrate and detected electrically by spin rectification at subthreshold values of rf current. When the frequency of the time-varying strain matches the gyrotropic frequency at a given in-plane magnetic field, the strain-induced in-plane magnetic anisotropy leads to a resonant excitation of the gyration dynamics in the magnetic vortex. We show that nonlinear gyrotropic dynamics can be excited already for moderate amplitudes of the time-varying strain.