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Laser-induced magnetization precessional dynamics was investigated in epitaxial films of Mn$_3$Ge, which is a tetragonal Heusler-like nearly compensated ferrimagnet. The ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) mode was observed, the precession…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-26 S. Mizukami , A. Sugihara , S. Iihama , Y. Sasaki , K. Z. Suzuki , T. Miyazaki

The Gilbert damping parameter, which describes magnetization dynamics, is crucial for the performance of modern spintronic devices, affecting factors such as the switching speed and critical current density of magnetoresistive random access…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-26 Shi-Bo Zhao , Xiang-Fan Huang , Ze-quan Wang Ruqian Wu , Yusheng Hou

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 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

The effect of thermal fluctuations on a thin film magnetoresistive element has been calculated. The technique involves adding to the basic spin dynamics a general form of interaction with a thermal bath. For a general anisotropic magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir L. Safonov , H. Neal Bertram

Quasi particle based (e.g. Boltzmann equation) studies of spin wave transport often assume that their scattering rates follow the simple form $\eta=\alpha \omega$, with the Gilbert damping $\alpha$ and frequency $\omega$. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Mexx. E. Y. Regout , Bertrand Dupé , Matthieu J. Verstraete

We show that the spin pumping from ferromagnetic insulator into the adjacent metallic spin sink can be strongly stimulated by the superconducting correlations. The key physical mechanism responsible for this effect is the presence of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-18 M. A. Silaev

We report an enhanced magnetoelastic contribution to the Gilbert damping in highly magnetostrictive Fe$_{0.7}$Ga$_{0.3}$ thin films. This effect is mitigated for perpendicular-to-plane fields, leading to a large anisotropy of the Gilbert…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-16 William K. Peria , Xinjun Wang , Heshan Yu , Seunghun Lee , Ichiro Takeuchi , Paul A. Crowell

We probe the spin dynamics in a thin magnetic film at ferromagnetic resonance by nuclear resonant scattering of synchrotron radiation at the 14.4 keV resonance of $^{57}$Fe. The precession of the magnetization leads to an apparent reduction…

The damping of magnetization, represented by the rate at which it relaxes to equilibrium, is successfully modeled as a phenomenological extension in the Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert equation. This is the damping torque term known as Gilbert…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-04-01 M. C. Hickey , J. S. Moodera

The use of femtosecond laser pulses generated by a Ti:Sapphire laser system allows us to gain an insight into the magnetization dynamics on time scales from sub-picosecond up to 1 ns directly in the time domain. This experimental technique…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Walowski , M. Djordjevic Kaufmann , B. Lenk , C. Hamann , J. McCord , M. Münzenberg

The ability to tailor the damping factor is essential for spintronic and spin-torque applications. Here, we report an approach to manipulate the damping factor of FeGa/MgO(001) films by oblique deposition. Owing to the defects at the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Yang Li , Yan Li , Qian Liu , Zhe Yuan , Qing-Feng Zhan , Wei He , Hao-Liang Liu , Ke Xia , Wei Yu , Xiang-Qun Zhang , Zhao-Hua Cheng

We report on a study of Gilbert damping due to particle-hole pair excitations in conducting ferromagnets. We focus on a toy two-band model and on a four-band spherical model which provides an approximate description of ferromagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-28 Ion Garate , Allan MacDonald

A spin wave is the disturbance of intrinsic spin order in magnetic materials. In this paper, a spin wave in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation is obtained based on the assumption that the spin wave maintains its shape while it propagates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Zhiwei Sun , Jingrun Chen

We examine room-temperature magnetic relaxation in polycrystalline Fe films. Out-of-plane ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) measurements reveal Gilbert damping parameters of $\approx$ 0.0024 for Fe films with thicknesses of 4-25 nm, regardless…

Spin transport equations in a non-homogeneous ferromagnet are derived in the limit where the sd exchange coupling between the electrons in the conduction band and those in the d band is dominant. It is shown that spin diffusion in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Benakli , J. Hohlfeld , A. Rebei

We investigated the spin pumping damping contributed by paramagnetic layers (Pd, Pt) in both direct and indirect contact with ferromagnetic Ni$_{81}$Fe$_{19}$ films. We find a nearly linear dependence of the interface-related Gilbert…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-19 M. Caminale , A. Ghosh , S. Auffret , U. Ebels , K. Ollefs , F. Wilhelm , A. Rogalev , W. E. Bailey

Damping mechanisms in magnetic systems determine the lifetime, diffusion and transport properties of magnons, domain walls, magnetic vortices, and skyrmions. Based on the phenomenological Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, here the effective…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-16 Levente Rózsa , Julian Hagemeister , Elena Y. Vedmedenko , Roland Wiesendanger

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

The inevitable Gilbert damping in magnetization dynamics is usually regarded as detrimental to spin transport. Here we apply a general feature of chiral non-Hermitian dynamics to a ferromagnetic-insulator--normal-metal heterostructure to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Xiyin Ye , Ke Xia , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Tao Yu