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A finite spin life-time of conduction electrons may dominate Gilbert damping of two-dimensional metallic anti-ferromagnets or anti-ferromagnet/metal heterostructures. We investigate the Gilbert damping tensor for a typical low-energy model…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-04-19 Robert Sokolewicz , Mikhail Baglai , Ivan Ado , Mikhail Katsnelson , Mikhail Titov

We consider the general Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert theory underlying the magnetization dynamics of a macrospin magnet subject to spin-torque effects and thermal fluctuations. Thermally activated dynamical properties are analyzed by averaging…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-07 Daniele Pinna , Andrew D. Kent , Daniel L. Stein

In this paper, we investigate theoretically the spin-orbit torque as well as the Gilbert damping for a two band model of a 2D helical surface state with a Ferromagnetic (FM) exchange coupling. We decompose the density matrix into the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Farzad Mahfouzi , Nicholas Kioussis

The dynamical equation of the magnetization has been reconsidered with enlarging the phase space of the ferromagnetic degrees of freedom to the angular momentum. The generalized Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation that includes inertial terms,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. -C. Ciornei , J. M. Rubí , J. -E. Wegrowe

Magnetization dynamics in single-domain ferromagnets can be triggered by charge current if spin-orbit coupling is sufficiently strong. We apply functional Keldysh theory to investigate Rashba spin-orbit torques in metallic two-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-14 A. Qaiumzadeh , R. A. Duine , M. Titov

We study the spin dynamics of a ferromagnetic insulator on which graphene is placed. We show that the Gilbert damping is enhanced by the proximity exchange coupling at the interface. The modulation of the Gilbert damping constant is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Yuya Ominato , Mamoru Matsuo

We investigate the spin dynamics in the two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled system subject to an in-plane ($x$-$y$ plane) constant electric field, which is assumed to be turned on at the moment $t=0$. The equation of spin precession in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Tsung-Wei Chen , Zhi-Yang Huang , Dah-Wei Chiou

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

A fully quantum mechanical description of the precessional damping of Pt/Co bilayer is presented in the framework of the Keldysh Green function approach using {\it ab initio} electronic structure calculations. In contrast to previous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Farzad Mahfouzi , Jinwoong Kim , Nicholas Kioussis

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

When nano-magnets are coupled to random external sources, their magnetization becomes a random variable, whose properties are defined by an induced probability density, that can be reconstructed from its moments, using the Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-21 Stam Nicolis , Pascal Thibaudeau , Julien Tranchida

Spin valves form a key building block in a wide range of spintronic concepts and devices from magnetoresistive read heads to spin-transfer-torque oscillators. We elucidate the dependence of the magnetic damping in the free layer on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-11 Akashdeep Kamra , Dmytro M. Polishchuk , Vladislav Korenivski , Arne Brataas

We investigate theoretically the dynamics of magnetization coupled to the surface Dirac fermions of a three dimensional topological insulator, by deriving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation in the presence of charge current. Both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Takehito Yokoyama , Jiadong Zang , Naoto Nagaosa

The optimal control of magnetization dynamics in a ferromagnetic sample at a microscopic scale is studied. The dynamics of this model is governed by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation on a two-dimensional bounded domain with the external…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Sidhartha Patnaik , Sakthivel Kumarasamy

We analyze the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation when the precession motion of the magnetic moments is additionally subjected to an uniaxial anisotropy and is driven by a multiplicative coupled stochastic field with a finite correlation time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Thomas Bose , Steffen Trimper

In this work we present an ab initio scheme based on linear response theory of exchange torque correlation, implemented into the real-space Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker (RS-KKR) framework to calculate diagonal elements of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-09 Balázs Nagyfalusi , László Szunyogh , Krisztián Palotás

We calculate the magnetization torque due to the spin polarization of the itinerant electrons by deriving the kinetic spin Bloch equations based on the $s$-$d$ model. We find that the first-order gradient of the magnetization inhomogeneity…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-15 K. Shen , G. Tatara , M. W. Wu

Magnetization switching in ferromagnetic structures is an important process for technical applications such as data storage in spintronics, and therefore the determination of the corresponding switching rates becomes essential. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-15 Johannes Mögerle , Robin Schuldt , Johannes Reiff , Jörg Main , Rigoberto Hernandez

The conventional Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation is a widely used tool to describe dynamics of local magnetic moments, viewed as classical vectors of fixed length, with their change assumed to take place simultaneously with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Utkarsh Bajpai , Branislav K. Nikolic

The mechanism of spin-pumping, described by Tserkovnyak et al., is formally analyzed in the general case of a magnetic multilayer consisting of two or more metallic ferromagnetic (FM) films separated by normal metal (NM) layers. It is shown…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Neil Smith