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Damping in magnetization dynamics characterizes the dissipation of magnetic energy and is essential for improving the performance of spintronics-based devices. While the damping of ferromagnets has been well studied and can be artificially…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-15 Qian Liu , H. Y. Yuan , Ke Xia , Zhe Yuan

Precessing magnetization in a thin film magnetic insulator pumps spins into adjacent metals; however, this phenomenon is not quantitatively understood. We present a theory for the dependence of spin-pumping on the transverse mode number and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 André Kapelrud , Arne Brataas

We have measured the size effect in nonlocal Gilbert relaxation rate in FM(t$_{FM}$) / Cu (5nm) [/ Pt (2nm)] / Al(2nm) heterostructures, FM = \{ Ni$_{81}$Fe$_{19}$, Co$_{60}$Fe$_{20}$B$_{20}$, pure Co\}. Common behavior is observed for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-05 A. Ghosh , J. F. Sierra , S. Auffret , U. Ebels , W. E. Bailey

Using the in-in formalism, we generalize the recently constructed magnetoelastic EFT arXiv:2112.13873 [hep-th] to describe the damping dynamics of ferromagnetic systems at long wavelengths. We find that the standard Gilbert damping term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-21 Jingping Li

We theoretically study dynamic properties of thin ferromagnetic films in contact with normal metals. Moving magnetizations cause a flow of spins into adjacent conductors, which relax by spin flip, scatter back into the ferromagnet, or are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

An ab initio scheme based on the Kubo-Greenwood linear response theory of exchange torque correlation is presented to calculate intrinsic Gilbert damping parameters in magnets of reduced dimensions. The method implemented into the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-01 Balázs Nagyfalusi , László Szunyogh , Krisztián Palotás

Spin dynamics of a metallic ferromagnetic film imbedded between normal metal layers is studied using the spin-pumping theory of Tserkovnyak et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 117601 (2002)]. The scattering matrix for this structure is obtained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Simanek

We propose a new quantum-mechanical formalism to calculate spin torques based on the gradient expansion, which naturally involves spacetime gradients of the magnetization and electromagnetic fields. We have no assumption in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-14 Atsuo Shitade

Spin torques, that is, effects of conduction electrons on magnetization dynamics, are calculated microscopically in the first order in spatial gradient and time derivative of magnetization. Special attention is paid to the so-called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 H. Kohno , G. Tatara , J. Shibata , Y. Suzuki

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) and low magnetic damping are the key factors for the free layer magnetization switching by spin transfer torque technique in magnetic tunnel junction devices. The magnetization precessional dynamics…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-15 B. Samantaray , Akhilesh K. Singh , A. Perumal , R. Ranganathan , P. Mandal

The dynamics of the magnetic order parameters of ferromagnet/normal-metal/ferromagnet spin valves and isolated ferromagnets may be very different. We investigate the role of the nonequilibrium spin-current exchange between the ferromagnets…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Using first-principles electronic structure calculation, we demonstrate the spin dissipation process in bulk Fe by orbital excitations within the energy bands of pure spin character. The variation of orbitals in the intraband transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Yue Chen , Haoran Chen , Xi Shen , Weizhao Chen , Yi Liu , Yizheng Wu , Zhe Yuan

An essential property of magnetic devices is the relaxation rate in magnetic switching which depends strongly on the damping in the magnetisation dynamics. It was recently measured that damping depends on the magnetic texture and,…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-10 Danny Thonig , Yaroslav Kvashnin , Olle Eriksson , Manuel Pereiro

Current-driven magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic metals are studied in a self-consistent adiabatic local-density approximation in the presence of spin-conserving and spin-dephasing impurity scattering. Based on a quantum kinetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Hans Joakim Skadsem , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We present a unified theory of magnetic damping in itinerant electron ferromagnets at order $q^2$ including electron-electron interactions and disorder scattering. We show that the Gilbert damping coefficient can be expressed in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. M. Hankiewicz , G. Vignale , Y. Tserkovnyak

We study the enhancement of the ferromagnetic relaxation rate in thin films due to the adjacent normal metal layers. Using linear response theory, we derive the dissipative torque produced by the s-d exchange interaction at the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Simanek , B. Heinrich

The Gilbert damping in ferromagnetic semiconductors is theoretically investigated based on the $s$-$d$ model. In contrast to the situation in metals, all the spin-conserving scattering in ferromagnetic semiconductors supplies an additional…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-13 K. Shen , G. Tatara , M. W. Wu

A method for the calculations of the Gilbert damping parameter $\alpha$ is presented, which based on the linear response formalism, has been implemented within the fully relativistic Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker band structure method in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Mankovsky , D. Koedderitzsch , G. Woltersdorf , H. Ebert

In magnetic trilayer structures, a contribution to the Gilbert damping of ferromagnetic resonance arises from spin currents pumped from one layer to another. This contribution has been demonstrated for layers with weakly coupled, separated…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-15 H. Yang , Y. Li , W. E. Bailey

We compute the Gilbert damping in (Ga,Mn)As based on the scattering theory of magnetization relaxation. The disorder scattering is included non-perturbatively. In the clean limit, the spin-pumping from the localized d-electrons to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-03 Kjetil M. D. Hals , Arne Brataas