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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

Laser-induced magnetization precession measurements in ferromagnets often reveal an anomalous decrease in the damping time near a field-induced second-order spin-orientation transition, a behavior that cannot be described by the linearized…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 P. I. Gerevenkov , Ia. A. Filatov , L. A. Shelukhin , P. A. Dvortsova , A. M. Kalashnikova

Recent theory and measurements of the velocity of current-driven domain walls in magnetic nanowires have re-opened the unresolved question of whether Landau-Lifshitz damping or Gilbert damping provides the more natural description of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 M. D. Stiles , W. M. Saslow , M. J. Donahue , A. Zangwill

In the framework of the Landau-Lifshitz equations without any dissipation (an approximation which may also be helpful for finite but weak Gilbert damping), with all interactions included, for general ground states, geometries and domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 U. Krey

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

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

We derive an approximate expression for the Gilbert damping coefficient \alpha_G of itinerant electron ferromagnets which is based on their description in terms of spin-density-functional-theory (SDFT) and Kohn-Sham quasiparticle orbitals.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ion Garate , Allan H. MacDonald

Damping of magnetization dynamics in a ferromagnetic metal is usually characterized by the Gilbert parameter alpha. Recent calculations of this quantity, using a formula due to Kambersky, find that it is infinite for a perfect crystal owing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-17 D. M. Edwards

The shape of ferromagnetic resonance spectra of highly dispersed, chemically disordered Fe_{0.2}Pt_{0.8} nanospheres is perfectly described by the solution of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation excluding effects by crystalline…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Jürgen Kötzler , Detlef Görlitz , Frank Wiekhorst

Thermal fluctuations of nanomagnets driven by spin-polarized currents are treated via the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation as generalized to include both the random thermal noise field and Slonczewski spin-transfer torque terms. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-26 Y. P. Kalmykov , D. Byrne , W. T. Coffey , W. J. Dowling , S. V. Titov , J. E. Wegrowe

A detailed analysis of damping and noise due to a {\it sd}-interaction in a thin ferromagnetic film sandwiched between two large normal metal layers is carried out. The magnetization is shown to obey in general a non-local equation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Rebei , M. Simionato

Magnetic damping is a key metric for emerging technologies based on magnetic nanoparticles, such as spin torque memory and high-resolution biomagnetic imaging. Despite its importance, understanding of magnetic dissipation in nanoscale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 I. Barsukov , H. K. Lee , A. A. Jara , Y. -J. Chen , A. M. Gonçalves , C. Sha , J. A. Katine , R. E. Arias , B. A. Ivanov , I. N. Krivorotov

Relaxation effects are of primary importance in the description of magnetic excitations, leading to a myriad of methods addressing the phenomenological damping parameters. In this work, we consider several well-established forms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 Filipe S. M. Guimarães , J. R. Suckert , Jonathan Chico , Juba Bouaziz , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis

The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert damping coefficient employed in the analysis of spin wave ferromagnetic resonance is related to the electrical conductivity of the sample. The changing magnetization (with time) radiates electromagnetic fields.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Sivasubramanian , A. Widom , Y. N. Srivastava

Heusler alloys have been intensively studied due to the wide variety of properties that they exhibit. One of these properties is of particular interest for technological applications, i.e. the fact that some Heusler alloys are…

We study the Landau damping of ferromagnetic magnons in Fe, Co, and Ni as the dimensionality of the system is reduced from three to two. We resort to the \textit{ab initio} linear response time dependent density functional theory in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Paweł Buczek , Arthur Ernst , Leonid M. Sandratskii

We describe a theory of Mn local-moment magnetization relaxation due to p-d kinetic-exchange coupling with the itinerant-spin subsystem in the ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As alloy. The theoretical Gilbert damping coefficient implied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jairo Sinova , T. Jungwirth , X. Liu , Y. Sasaki , J. K. Furdyna , W. A. Atkinson , A. H. MacDonald

We study the influence of non-local damping on magnon properties of Fe, Co, Ni and Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$ ($x=30\%,50\%$) alloys. The Gilbert damping parameter is typically considered as a local scalar both in experiment and in theoretical…

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

The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation describes the dynamics of a damped magnetization vector that can be understood as a generalization of Larmor spin precession. The LLG equation cannot be deduced from the Hamiltonian framework, by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Pascal Thibaudeau , Thomas Nussle , Stam Nicolis