  Atomically-thin van der Waals magnetic materials offer exceptional
opportunities to mechanically and electrically manipulate magnetic states and
spin textures. The possibility of efficient spin transport in these materials
makes them promising for the development of novel nanospintronics technology.
Using atomistic spin dynamics simulations, we investigate magnetic ground
state, magnon dispersion, critical temperature, and magnon spin transport in
CrCl$_3$ bilayers in the absence and presence of compressive and tensile
strains. We show that in the presence of mechanical strain, the magnon band gap
at the $\Gamma$ point and the critical temperature of the bilayer are
increased. Furthermore, our simulations show that the magnon diffusion length
is reduced in the presence of strain. Moreover, by exciting magnons through the
spin Seebeck effect and spin Hall-induced torque, we illustrate distinctions
between magnon spin transport in the antiferromagnetic state, under compressive
strains, and ferromagnetic states, under tensile strains or in the unstrained
case.
