A tensor form of phenomenological damping is derived for small magnetization motions. This form reflects basic physical relaxation processes for a general uniformly magnetized particle or film. Scalar Landau-Lifshitz damping is found to occur only for two special cases of system symmetry.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0111566,
title = {Tensor form of magnetization damping},
author = {Vladimir L. Safonov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0111566},
year = {2009}
}
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Paper HA-03 presented at MMM'01, to be published in J. Appl. Phys