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For more than three decades, clear discrepancies have existed between spin densities in momentum space revealed by Magnetic Compton scattering experiments and theoretical calculations based on density functional theory (DFT). Here by making…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-02 A. D. N. James , E. I. Harris-Lee , S. B. Dugdale

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a powerful tool to study the non-equilibrium dynamics of inhomogeneous interacting many-body systems. Here we show that the simple adiabatic local-spin-density approximation for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-11 Wei Li , Gao Xianlong , Corinna Kollath , Marco Polini

We present a microscopic calculation of the Gilbert damping constant for the magnetization of a two-dimensional spin-polarized electron liquid in the presence of intrinsic spin-orbit interaction. First we show that the Gilbert constant can…

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

We derive and analyse the equation of motion for the spin degrees of freedom within time-dependent spin-density-functional theory (TD-SDFT). Results are (i) a prescription for obtaining many-body corrections to the single-particle spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Capelle , G. Vignale , B. L. Gyorffy

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

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

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

A spin angular gradient approximation for the exchange correlation magnetic field in the density functional formalism is proposed. The usage of such corrections leads to a consistent spin dynamical approach beyond the local approximation.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. I. Katsnelson , V. P. Antropov

We address the role of correlations between spin and charge degrees of freedom on the dynamical properties of ferromagnetic systems governed by the magnetic exchange interaction between itinerant and localized spins. For this we introduce a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-08-25 M. D. Kapetanakis , I. E. Perakis

We study the magnetization dynamics in thin ferromagnetic films and small ferromagnetic particles in contact with paramagnetic conductors. A moving magnetization vector causes \textquotedblleft pumping\textquotedblright of spins into…

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

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a central tool for studying the dynamical electronic structure of molecules and solids, yet aspects of its mathematical foundations remain insufficiently understood. In this work, we…

Spatial and time scales of spin density fluctuations (SDF) were analyzed in 3d ferromagnets using ab initio linear response calculations of complete wavevector and energy dependence of the dynamic spin susceptibility tensor. We demonstrate…

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

New terms to the dynamical equation of magnetization motion, associated with spin transport, have been reported over the past several years. Each newly identified term is thought to possess both a real and an imaginary effective field…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-23 Yi Li , W. E. Bailey

Magnetic systems can exhibit thermally activated transitions whose timescales are often described by an Arrhenius law. However, robust predictions of such timescales are only available for certain cases. Inspired by the harmonic theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Hugo Bocquet , Peter M. Derlet

The Gilbert damping of ferromagnetic materials is arguably the most important but least understood phenomenological parameter that dictates real-time magnetization dynamics. Understanding the physical origin of the Gilbert damping is highly…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-29 Yuelei Zhao , Qi Song , See-Hun Yang , Tang Su , Wei Yuan , Stuart S. P. Parkin , Jing Shi , Wei Han

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 develop a Green's function formalism for spin transport through heterostructures that contain metallic leads and insulating ferromagnets. While this formalism in principle allows for the inclusion of various magnonic interactions, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Jiansen Zheng , Scott Bender , Jogundas Armaitis , Roberto E. Troncoso , R. A. Duine

We present a new time-dependent Density Functional approach to study the relaxational dynamics of an assembly of interacting particles subject to thermal noise. Starting from the Langevin stochastic equations of motion for the velocities of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Pedro Tarazona

Thermal-bias-induced spin angular momentum transfer between a paramagnetic metal and ferromagnetic insulator is studied theoretically based on the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) phenomenology. Magnons in the ferromagnet establish…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-14 Silas Hoffman , Koji Sato , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak