diff --git "a/Gilbert_damping_coefficient_-_abstract.csv" "b/Gilbert_damping_coefficient_-_abstract.csv" new file mode 100644--- /dev/null +++ "b/Gilbert_damping_coefficient_-_abstract.csv" @@ -0,0 +1,100250 @@ +publicationDate,title,abstract,id +2008-04-04,Inhomogeneous Gilbert damping from impurities and electron-electron interactions,"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 the spin conductivity, leading to a Matthiessen-type +formula in which disorder and interaction contributions are additive. In a weak +ferromagnet regime, electron-electron interactions lead to a strong enhancement +of the Gilbert damping.",0804.0820v2 +2006-12-01,Gilbert damping and spin Coulomb drag in a magnetized electron liquid with spin-orbit interaction,"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 be expressed in terms of the auto-correlation function of the +spin-orbit induced torque. Then we specialize to the case of the Rashba +spin-orbit interaction and we show that the Gilbert constant in this model is +related to the spin-channel conductivity. This allows us to study the Gilbert +damping constant in different physical regimes, characterized by different +orderings of the relevant energy scales -- spin-orbit coupling, Zeeman +coupling, momentum relaxation rate, spin-momentum relaxation rate, spin +precession frequency -- and to discuss its behavior in various limits. +Particular attention is paid to electron-electron interaction effects,which +enter the spin conductivity and hence the Gilbert damping constant via the spin +Coulomb drag coefficient.",0612015v1 +2011-09-22,Hole spin relaxation and coefficients in Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in ferromagnetic GaMnAs,"We investigate the temperature dependence of the coefficients in the +Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in ferromagnetic GaMnAs by employing the Zener +model. We first calculate the hole spin relaxation time based on the +microscopic kinetic equation. We find that the hole spin relaxation time is +typically several tens femtoseconds and can present a nonmonotonic temperature +dependence due to the variation of the interband spin mixing, influenced by the +temperature related Zeeman splitting. With the hole spin relaxation time, we +are able to calculate the coefficients in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, +such as the Gilbert damping, nonadiabatic spin torque, spin stiffness and +vertical spin stiffness coefficients. We find that the nonadiabatic spin torque +coefficient $\beta$ is around $0.1\sim 0.3$ at low temperature, which is +consistent with the experiment [Adam {\em et al.}, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 80}, +193204 (2009)]. As the temperature increases, $\beta$ monotonically increases +and can exceed one in the vicinity of the Curie temperature. In the low +temperature regime with $\beta<1$, the Gilbert damping coefficient $\alpha$ +increases with temperature, showing good agreement with the experiments [Sinova +{\em et al.}, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 69}, 085209 (2004); Khazen {\em et al.}, {\em +ibid.} {\bf 78}, 195210 (2008)]. Furthermore, we predict that $\alpha$ +decreases with increasing temperature once $\beta>1$ near the Curie +temperature. We also find that the spin stiffness decreases with increasing +temperature, especially near the Curie temperature due to the modification of +the finite $\beta$. Similar to the Gilbert damping, the vertical spin stiffness +coefficient is also found to be nonmonotonically dependent on the temperature.",1109.4964v1 +2002-02-11,Radiation Induced Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert Damping in Ferromagnets,"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. The electromagnetic energy is then absorbed by the sample and the +resulting heating effect describes magnetic dissipative damping. The +ferromagnetic resonance relaxation rate theoretically depends on the geometry +(shape and size) of the sample as well as temperature in agreement with +experiment.",0202181v1 +2008-08-09,Gilbert Damping in Conducting Ferromagnets I: Kohn-Sham Theory and Atomic-Scale Inhomogeneity,"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. We argue for an expression in which the coupling of magnetization +fluctuations to particle-hole transitions is weighted by the spin-dependent +part of the theory's exchange-correlation potential, a quantity which has large +spatial variations on an atomic length scale. Our SDFT result for \alpha_G is +closely related to the previously proposed spin-torque correlation-function +expression.",0808.1373v1 +2003-09-29,Damping rates of the atomic velocity in Sisyphus cooling,"We present a theoretical and experimental study of the damping process of the +atomic velocity in Sisyphus cooling. The relaxation rates of the atomic kinetic +temperature are determined for a 3D lin$\perp$lin optical lattice. We find that +the damping rates of the atomic temperature depend linearly on the optical +pumping rate, for a given depth of the potential wells. This is at variance +with the behavior of the friction coefficient as calculated from the spatial +diffusion coefficients within a model of Brownian motion. The origin of this +different behavior is identified by distinguishing the role of the trapped and +traveling atoms.",0309209v1 +2012-11-15,Spin transport and tunable Gilbert damping in a single-molecule magnet junction,"We study time-dependent electronic and spin transport through an electronic +level connected to two leads and coupled with a single-molecule magnet via +exchange interaction. The molecular spin is treated as a classical variable and +precesses around an external magnetic field. We derive expressions for charge +and spin currents by means of the Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's functions +technique in linear order with respect to the time-dependent magnetic field +created by this precession. The coupling between the electronic spins and the +magnetization dynamics of the molecule creates inelastic tunneling processes +which contribute to the spin currents. The inelastic spin currents, in turn, +generate a spin-transfer torque acting on the molecular spin. This back-action +includes a contribution to the Gilbert damping and a modification of the +precession frequency. The Gilbert damping coefficient can be controlled by the +bias and gate voltages or via the external magnetic field and has a +non-monotonic dependence on the tunneling rates.",1211.3611v2 +2021-05-08,A second-order numerical method for Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with large damping parameters,"A second order accurate numerical scheme is proposed and implemented for the +Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, which models magnetization dynamics in +ferromagnetic materials, with large damping parameters. The main advantages of +this method are associated with the following features: (1) It only solves +linear systems of equations with constant coefficients where fast solvers are +available, so that the numerical efficiency has been greatly improved, in +comparison with the existing Gauss-Seidel project method. (2) The second-order +accuracy in time is achieved, and it is unconditionally stable for large +damping parameters. Moreover, both the second-order accuracy and the great +efficiency improvement will be verified by several numerical examples in the 1D +and 3D simulations. In the presence of large damping parameters, it is observed +that this method is unconditionally stable and finds physically reasonable +structures while many existing methods have failed. For the domain wall +dynamics, the linear dependence of wall velocity with respect to the damping +parameter and the external magnetic field will be obtained through the reported +simulations.",2105.03576v1 +2017-09-29,Non-local Gilbert damping tensor within the torque-torque correlation model,"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, +consequently, is a non-local quantity. The damping enters the +Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation as the phenomenological Gilbert damping +parameter $\alpha$, that does not, in a straight forward formulation, account +for non-locality. Efforts were spent recently to obtain Gilbert damping from +first principles for magnons of wave vector $\mathbf{q}$. However, to the best +of our knowledge, there is no report about real space non-local Gilbert damping +$\alpha_{ij}$. Here, a torque-torque correlation model based on a tight binding +approach is applied to the bulk elemental itinerant magnets and it predicts +significant off-site Gilbert damping contributions, that could be also +negative. Supported by atomistic magnetisation dynamics simulations we reveal +the importance of the non-local Gilbert damping in atomistic magnetisation +dynamics. This study gives a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the +magnetic moments and dissipation processes in real magnetic materials. Ways of +manipulating non-local damping are explored, either by temperature, material's +doping or strain.",1709.10365v1 +2008-07-18,Current-induced dynamics of spiral magnet,"We study the dynamics of the spiral magnet under the charge current by +solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation numerically. In the steady state, +the current ${\vec j}$ induces (i) the parallel shift of the spiral pattern +with velocity $v=(\beta/\alpha)j$ ($\alpha$, $\beta$: the Gilbert damping +coefficients), (ii) the uniform magnetization $M$ parallel or anti-parallel to +the current depending on the chirality of the spiral and the ratio $\beta / +\alpha $, and (iii) the change in the wavenumber $k$ of the spiral. These are +analyzed by the continuum effective theory using the scaling argument, and the +various nonequilibrium phenomena such as the chaotic behavior and +current-induced annealing are also discussed.",0807.2901v1 +2010-03-19,Dynamics of magnetization on the topological surface,"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 the inverse spin-Galvanic effect and the Gilbert damping +coefficient $\alpha$ are related to the two-dimensional diagonal conductivity +$\sigma_{xx}$ of the Dirac fermion, while the Berry phase of the ferromagnetic +moment to the Hall conductivity $\sigma_{xy}$. The spin transfer torque and the +so-called $\beta$-terms are shown to be negligibly small. Anomalous behaviors +in various phenomena including the ferromagnetic resonance are predicted in +terms of this LLG equation.",1003.3769v1 +2016-02-23,Experimental Investigation of Temperature-Dependent Gilbert Damping in Permalloy Thin Films,"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 relevant to developing future fast switching spintronics +devices such as magnetic sensors and magnetic random access memory. Here, we +report an experimental study of temperature-dependent Gilbert damping in +permalloy (Py) thin films of varying thicknesses by ferromagnetic resonance. +From the thickness dependence, two independent contributions to the Gilbert +damping are identified, namely bulk damping and surface damping. Of particular +interest, bulk damping decreases monotonically as the temperature decreases, +while surface damping shows an enhancement peak at the temperature of ~50 K. +These results provide an important insight to the physical origin of the +Gilbert damping in ultrathin magnetic films.",1602.07325v1 +2019-02-22,Strongly Enhanced Gilbert Damping in 3d Transition Metal Ferromagnet Monolayers in Contact with Topological Insulator Bi2Se3,"Engineering Gilbert damping of ferromagnetic metal films is of great +importance to exploit and design spintronic devices that are operated with an +ultrahigh speed. Based on scattering theory of Gilbert damping, we extend the +torque method originally used in studies of magnetocrystalline anisotropy to +theoretically determine Gilbert dampings of ferromagnetic metals. This method +is utilized to investigate Gilbert dampings of 3d transition metal ferromagnet +iron, cobalt and nickel monolayers that are contacted by the prototypical +topological insulator Bi2Se3. Amazingly, we find that their Gilbert dampings +are strongly enhanced by about one order in magnitude, compared with dampings +of their bulks and free-standing monolayers, owing to the strong spin-orbit +coupling of Bi2Se3. Our work provides an attractive route to tailoring Gilbert +damping of ferromagnetic metallic films by putting them in contact with +topological insulators.",1902.08700v1 +2018-08-20,Gilbert damping of [Co/Pd]n/Py multilayer thin films,"Understanding the Gilbert damping in exchange-coupled multilayer materials is +particularly important to develop future fast switching spintronics devices. +Here, we report an experimental investigation of temperature-dependent Gilbert +damping in [Co/Pd]n/Py multilayer films of varying the number of Co/Pd +repetitions by ferromagnetic resonance. The results demonstrate that three +independent contributions to the Gilbert damping are identified, namely the +intrinsic Gilbert damping, the inhomogeneous linewidth broadening and the +two-magnon scattering contribution. Of particular interest, the two-magnon +scattering intensity increases as the enlargement of number repetitions of +Co/Pd due to the larger pinning effect at the interface between Py and the +Co/Pd layers. The Gilbert damping increases monotonically as the temperature +decreases from 300K to 50K. Our findings open the door to comprehend the +physical origin of the Gilbert damping in ultrathin exchange-coupled multilayer +films.",1808.06515v2 +2006-10-10,Spin-transfer in an open ferromagnetic layer: from negative damping to effective temperature,"Spin-transfer is a typical spintronics effect that allows a ferromagnetic +layer to be switched by spin-injection. Most of the experimental results about +spin transfer are described on the basis of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert +equation of the magnetization, in which additional current-dependent damping +factors are added, and can be positive or negative. The origin of the damping +can be investigated further by performing stochastic experiments, like one shot +relaxation experiments under spin-injection in the activation regime of the +magnetization. In this regime, the N\'eel-Brown activation law is observed +which leads to the introduction of a current-dependent effective temperature. +In order to justify the introduction of these counterintuitive parameters +(effective temperature and negative damping), a detailed thermokinetic analysis +of the different sub-systems involved is performed. We propose a thermokinetic +description of the different forms of energy exchanged between the electric and +the ferromagnetic sub-systems at a Normal/Ferromagnetic junction. The +corresponding Fokker Planck equations, including relaxations, are derived. The +damping coefficients are studied in terms of Onsager-Casimir transport +coefficients, with the help of the reciprocity relations. The effective +temperature is deduced in the activation regime.",0610264v1 +2016-07-18,Magnetic Skyrmion Transport in a Nanotrack With Spatially Varying Damping and Non-adiabatic Torque,"Reliable transport of magnetic skyrmions is required for any future +skyrmion-based information processing devices. Here we present a micromagnetic +study of the in-plane current-driven motion of a skyrmion in a ferromagnetic +nanotrack with spatially sinusoidally varying Gilbert damping and/or +non-adiabatic spin-transfer torque coefficients. It is found that the skyrmion +moves in a sinusoidal pattern as a result of the spatially varying Gilbert +damping and/or non-adiabatic spin-transfer torque in the nanotrack, which could +prevent the destruction of the skyrmion caused by the skyrmion Hall effect. The +results provide a guide for designing and developing the skyrmion transport +channel in skyrmion-based spintronic applications.",1607.04983v3 +2003-08-19,"Magnetization relaxation in (Ga,Mn)As ferromagnetic semiconductors","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 by this mechanism is calculated as a function of Mn moment +density, hole concentration, and quasiparticle lifetime. Comparison with +experimental ferromagnetic resonance data suggests that in annealed strongly +metallic samples, p-d coupling contributes significantly to the damping rate of +the magnetization precession at low temperatures. By combining the theoretical +Gilbert coefficient with the values of the magnetic anisotropy energy, we +estimate that the typical critical current for spin-transfer magnetization +switching in all-semiconductor trilayer devices can be as low as $\sim 10^{5} +{\rm A cm}^{-2}$.",0308386v3 +2007-08-24,Enhancement of the Gilbert damping constant due to spin pumping in noncollinear ferromagnet/nonmagnet/ferromagnet trilayer systems,"We analyzed the enhancement of the Gilbert damping constant due to spin +pumping in non-collinear ferromagnet / non-magnet / ferromagnet trilayer +systems. We show that the Gilbert damping constant depends both on the +precession angle of the magnetization of the free layer and on the direction of +the magntization of the fixed layer. We find the condition to be satisfied to +realize strong enhancement of the Gilbert damping constant.",0708.3323v1 +2017-06-14,Temperature-dependent Gilbert damping of Co2FeAl thin films with different degree of atomic order,"Half-metallicity and low magnetic damping are perpetually sought for in +spintronics materials and full Heusler alloys in this respect provide +outstanding properties. However, it is challenging to obtain the well-ordered +half-metallic phase in as-deposited full Heusler alloys thin films and theory +has struggled to establish a fundamentals understanding of the temperature +dependent Gilbert damping in these systems. Here we present a study of the +temperature dependent Gilbert damping of differently ordered as-deposited +Co2FeAl full Heusler alloy thin films. The sum of inter- and intraband electron +scattering in conjunction with the finite electron lifetime in Bloch states +govern the Gilbert damping for the well-ordered phase in contrast to the +damping of partially-ordered and disordered phases which is governed by +interband electronic scattering alone. These results, especially the ultralow +room temperature intrinsic damping observed for the well-ordered phase provide +new fundamental insights to the physical origin of the Gilbert damping in full +Heusler alloy thin films.",1706.04670v2 +2023-11-27,Gilbert damping in two-dimensional metallic anti-ferromagnets,"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 of a metallic anti-ferromagnet system with honeycomb magnetic +lattice and Rashba spin-orbit coupling for conduction electrons. We distinguish +three regimes of spin relaxation: exchange-dominated relaxation for weak +spin-orbit coupling strength, Elliot-Yafet relaxation for moderate spin-orbit +coupling, and Dyakonov-Perel relaxation for strong spin-orbit coupling. We +show, however, that the latter regime takes place only for the in-plane Gilbert +damping component. We also show that anisotropy of Gilbert damping persists for +any finite spin-orbit interaction strength provided we consider no spatial +variation of the N\'eel vector. Isotropic Gilbert damping is restored only if +the electron spin-orbit length is larger than the magnon wavelength. Our theory +applies to MnPS3 monolayer on Pt or to similar systems.",2311.16268v2 +2013-08-01,Inverse Spin Hall Effect in nanometer-thick YIG/Pt system,"High quality nanometer-thick (20 nm, 7 nm and 4 nm) epitaxial YIG films have +been grown on GGG substrates using pulsed laser deposition. The Gilbert damping +coefficient for the 20 nm thick films is 2.3 x 10-4 which is the lowest value +reported for sub-micrometric thick films. We demonstrate Inverse spin Hall +effect (ISHE) detection of propagating spin waves using Pt. The amplitude and +the lineshape of the ISHE voltage correlate well to the increase of the Gilbert +damping when decreasing thickness of YIG. Spin Hall effect based +loss-compensation experiments have been conducted but no change in the +magnetization dynamics could be detected.",1308.0192v1 +2020-08-14,Large enhancement of spin pumping due to the surface bound states in normal metal/superconductor structures,"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 +quasiparticle surface states at the ferromagnetic insulator/superconductor +interface. We consider the minimal model when these states appear because of +the suppressed pairing constant within the interfacial normal layer. For thin +normal layers we obtain a strongly peaked temperature dependence of the Gilbert +damping coefficient which has been recently observed in such systems. For +thicker normal layers the Gilbert damping monotonically increases down to the +temperatures much smaller than the critical one. The suggested model paves the +way to controlling the temperature dependence of the spin pumping by +fabricating hybrid normal metal/superconductor spin sinks.",2008.06253v1 +2012-07-28,Ultrafast optical control of magnetization in EuO thin films,"All-optical pump-probe detection of magnetization precession has been +performed for ferromagnetic EuO thin films at 10 K. We demonstrate that the +circularly-polarized light can be used to control the magnetization precession +on an ultrafast time scale. This takes place within the 100 fs duration of a +single laser pulse, through combined contribution from two nonthermal +photomagnetic effects, i.e., enhancement of the magnetization and an inverse +Faraday effect. From the magnetic field dependences of the frequency and the +Gilbert damping parameter, the intrinsic Gilbert damping coefficient is +evaluated to be {\alpha} \approx 3\times10^-3.",1207.6686v1 +2015-01-02,"Inertia, diffusion and dynamics of a driven skyrmion","Skyrmions recently discovered in chiral magnets are a promising candidate for +magnetic storage devices because of their topological stability, small size +($\sim 3-100$nm), and ultra-low threshold current density ($\sim +10^{6}$A/m$^2$) to drive their motion. However, the time-dependent dynamics has +hitherto been largely unexplored. Here we show, by combining the numerical +solution of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation and the analysis of a +generalized Thiele's equation, that inertial effects are almost completely +absent in skyrmion dynamics driven by a time-dependent current. In contrast, +the response to time-dependent magnetic forces and thermal fluctuations depends +strongly on frequency and is described by a large effective mass and a (anti-) +damping depending on the acceleration of the skyrmion. Thermal diffusion is +strongly suppressed by the cyclotron motion and is proportional to the Gilbert +damping coefficient $\alpha$. This indicates that the skyrmion position is +stable, and its motion responds to the time-dependent current without delay or +retardation even if it is fast. These findings demonstrate the advantages of +skyrmions as information carriers.",1501.00444v1 +2008-07-31,Scattering Theory of Gilbert Damping,"The magnetization dynamics of a single domain ferromagnet in contact with a +thermal bath is studied by scattering theory. We recover the +Landau-Liftshitz-Gilbert equation and express the effective fields and Gilbert +damping tensor in terms of the scattering matrix. Dissipation of magnetic +energy equals energy current pumped out of the system by the time-dependent +magnetization, with separable spin-relaxation induced bulk and spin-pumping +generated interface contributions. In linear response, our scattering theory +for the Gilbert damping tensor is equivalent with the Kubo formalism.",0807.5009v1 +2016-04-11,All-Optical Study of Tunable Ultrafast Spin Dynamics in [Co/Pd]-NiFe Systems: The Role of Spin-Twist Structure on Gilbert Damping,"We investigate optically induced ultrafast magnetization dynamics in [Co(0.5 +nm)/Pd(1 nm)]x5/NiFe(t) exchange-spring samples with tilted perpendicular +magnetic anisotropy using a time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect +magnetometer. The competition between the out-of-plane anisotropy of the hard +layer, the in-plane anisotropy of the soft layer and the applied bias field +reorganizes the spins in the soft layer, which are modified further with the +variation in t. The spin-wave spectrum, the ultrafast demagnetization time, and +the extracted damping coefficient all depend on the spin distribution in the +soft layer, while the latter two also depend on the spin-orbit coupling between +the Co and Pd layers. The spin-wave spectra change from multimode to +single-mode as t increases. At the maximum field reached in this study, H=2.5 +kOe, the damping shows a nonmonotonic dependence on t with a minimum at t=7.5 +nm. For t<7.5 nm, intrinsic effects dominate, whereas for t>7.5 nm, extrinsic +effects govern the damping mechanisms.",1604.02998v1 +2024-01-18,Real-space nonlocal Gilbert damping from exchange torque correlation applied to bulk ferromagnets and their surfaces,"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 +atomic-site-dependent intrinsic Gilbert damping tensor. The method is first +applied to bcc iron and fcc cobalt bulk systems. Beside reproducing earlier +results from the literature for those bulk magnets, the effect of the lattice +compression is also studied for Fe bulk, and significant changes for the +Gilbert damping are found. Furthermore, (001)-oriented surfaces of Fe and Co +are also investigated. It is found that the on-site Gilbert damping increases +in the surface atomic layer and decreases in the subsurface layer, and +approaches the bulk value moving further inside the magnets. Realistic atomic +relaxation of the surface layers enhances the identified effects. The +first-neighbor damping parameters are extremely sensitive to the surface +relaxation. Despite their inhomogeneity caused by the surface, the transverse +Gilbert damping tensor components remain largely insensitive to the +magnetization direction.",2401.09938v2 +2007-06-12,Gilbert and Landau-Lifshitz damping in the presense of spin-torque,"A recent article by Stiles et al. (cond-mat/0702020) argued in favor of the +Landau-Lifshitz damping term in the micromagnetic equations of motion over that +of the more commonly accepted Gilbert damping form. Much of their argument +revolved around spin-torque driven domain wall motion in narrow magnetic wires, +since the presence of spin-torques can more acutely draw a distinction between +the two forms of damping. In this article, the author uses simple arguments and +examples to offer an alternative point of view favoring Gilbert.",0706.1736v1 +2015-06-02,Current-Driven Motion of Magnetic Domain Wall with Many Bloch Lines,"The current-driven motion of a domain wall (DW) in a ferromagnet with many +Bloch lines (BLs) via the spin transfer torque is studied theoretically. It is +found that the motion of BLs changes the current-velocity ($j$-$v$) +characteristic dramatically. Especially, the critical current density to +overcome the pinning force is reduced by the factor of the Gilbert damping +coefficient $\alpha$ even compared with that of a skyrmion. This is in sharp +contrast to the case of magnetic field driven motion, where the existence of +BLs reduces the mobility of the DW.",1506.00723v1 +2023-03-13,Experimental investigation of the effect of topological insulator on the magnetization dynamics of ferromagnetic metal: $BiSbTe_{1.5}Se_{1.5}$ and $Ni_{80}Fe_{20}$ heterostructure,"We have studied ferromagnetic metal/topological insulator bilayer system to +understand magnetization dynamics of ferromagnetic metal (FM) in contact with a +topological insulator (TI). At magnetic resonance condition, the precessing +magnetization in the metallic ferromagnet ($Ni_{80}Fe_{20}$) injects spin +current into the topological insulator ($BiSbTe_{1.5}Se_{1.5}$), a phenomenon +known as spin-pumping. Due to the spin pumping effect, fast relaxation in the +ferromagnet results in the broadening of ferromagnetic resonance linewidth +($\Delta H$). We evaluated the parameters like effective Gilbert damping +coefficient ($\alpha_{eff}$), spin-mixing conductance ($g_{eff}^{\uparrow +\downarrow}$) and spin current density ($j_S^0$) to confirm a successful spin +injection due to spin-pumping into the $BiSbTe_{1.5}Se_{1.5}$ layer. TIs embody +a spin-momentum locked surface state that span the bulk band-gap. It can act +differently to the FM magnetization than the other normal metals. To probe the +effect of topological surface state, a systematic low temperature study is +crucial as surface state of TI dominates at lower temperatures. The exponential +growth of $\Delta H$ for all different thickness combination of FM/TI bilayers +and effective Gilbert damping coefficient ($\alpha_{eff}$) with lowering +temperature confirms the prediction that spin chemical bias generated from +spin-pumping induces surface current in TI due to spin-momentum locking. The +hump-like feature of magnetic anisotropy field ($H_K$)of the bilayer around 60K +suggests that the decrease of interfacial in-plane magnetic anisotropy can +result from exchange coupling between the TI surface state and the local +moments of FM layer.",2303.07025v2 +2021-01-07,Mechanisms behind large Gilbert damping anisotropies,"A method with which to calculate the Gilbert damping parameter from a +real-space electronic structure method is reported here. The anisotropy of the +Gilbert damping with respect to the magnetic moment direction and local +chemical environment is calculated for bulk and surfaces of Fe$_{50}$Co$_{50}$ +alloys from first principles electronic structure in a real space formulation. +The size of the damping anisotropy for Fe$_{50}$Co$_{50}$ alloys is +demonstrated to be significant. Depending on details of the simulations, it +reaches a maximum-minimum damping ratio as high as 200%. Several microscopic +origins of the strongly enhanced Gilbert damping anisotropy have been examined, +where in particular interface/surface effects stand out, as do local +distortions of the crystal structure. Although theory does not reproduce the +experimentally reported high ratio of 400% [Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 117203 +(2019)], it nevertheless identifies microscopic mechanisms that can lead to +huge damping anisotropies.",2101.02794v2 +2018-08-13,Gilbert damping phenomenology for two-sublattice magnets,"We present a systematic phenomenological description of Gilbert damping in +two-sublattice magnets. Our theory covers the full range of materials from +ferro- via ferri- to antiferromagnets. Following a Rayleigh dissipation +functional approach within a Lagrangian classical field formulation, the theory +captures intra- as well as cross-sublattice terms in the Gilbert damping, +parameterized by a 2$\times$2 matrix. When spin-pumping into an adjacent +conductor causes dissipation, we obtain the corresponding Gilbert damping +matrix in terms of the interfacial spin-mixing conductances. Our model +reproduces the experimentally observed enhancement of the ferromagnetic +resonance linewidth in a ferrimagnet close to its compensation temperature +without requiring an increased Gilbert parameter. It also predicts new +contributions to damping in an antiferromagnet and suggests the resonance +linewidths as a direct probe of the sublattice asymmetry, which may stem from +boundary or bulk.",1808.04385v2 +2021-07-02,Anomalous Gilbert Damping and Duffing Features of the SFS {\boldmath $\varphi_0$} Josephson Junction,"We demonstrate unusual features of phase dynamics, IV-characteristics and +magnetization dynamics of the $\varphi_0$ Josephson junction at small values of +spin-orbit interaction, ratio of Josephson to magnetic energy and Gilbert +damping. In particular, an anomalous shift of the ferromagnetic resonance +frequency with an increase of Gilbert damping is found. The ferromagnetic +resonance curves show the Duffing oscillator behaviour, reflecting the +nonlinear nature of Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation. Based on the +numerical analysis of each term in LLG equation we obtained an approximated +equation demonstrated both damping effect and Duffing oscillator features. The +resulting Duffing equation incorporates the Gilbert damping in a special way +across the dissipative term and the restoring force. A resonance method for the +determination of spin-orbit interaction in noncentrosymmetric materials which +play the role of barrier in $\varphi_0$ junctions is proposed.",2107.00982v3 +2023-03-07,Electrically tunable Gilbert damping in van der Waals heterostructures of two-dimensional ferromagnetic metals and ferroelectrics,"Tuning the Gilbert damping of ferromagnetic (FM) metals via a nonvolatile way +is of importance to exploit and design next-generation novel spintronic +devices. Through systematical first-principles calculations, we study the +magnetic properties of the van der Waals heterostructure of two-dimensional FM +metal CrTe2 and ferroelectric (FE) In2Te3 monolayers. The ferromagnetism of +CrTe2 is maintained in CrTe2/In2Te3 and its magnetic easy axis can be switched +from in-plane to out-of-plane by reversing the FE polarization of In2Te3. +Excitingly, we find that the Gilbert damping of CrTe2 is tunable when the FE +polarization of In2Te3 is reversed from upward to downward. By analyzing the +k-dependent contributions to the Gilbert damping, we unravel that such +tunability results from the changed intersections between the bands of CrTe2 +and Fermi level on the reversal of the FE polarizations of In2Te3 in +CrTe2/In2Te3. Our work provides an appealing way to electrically tailor Gilbert +dampings of two-dimensional FM metals by contacting them with ferroelectrics.",2303.03852v1 +2015-08-28,The inviscid limit for the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in the critical Besov space,"We prove that in dimensions three and higher the Landau-Lifshitz- Gilbert +equation with small initial data in the critical Besov space is globally +wellposed in a uniform way with respect to the Gilbert damping parameter. Then +we show that the global solution converges to that of the Schrodinger maps in +the natural space as the Gilbert damping term vanishes. The proof is based on +some studies on the derivative Ginzburg-Landau equations.",1508.07118v3 +2023-09-20,Evaluating Gilbert Damping in Magnetic Insulators from First Principles,"Magnetic damping has a significant impact on the performance of various +magnetic and spintronic devices, making it a long-standing focus of research. +The strength of magnetic damping is usually quantified by the Gilbert damping +constant in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. Here we propose a +first-principles based approach to evaluate the Gilbert damping constant +contributed by spin-lattice coupling in magnetic insulators. The approach +involves effective Hamiltonian models and spin-lattice dynamics simulations. As +a case study, we applied our method to Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$, MnFe$_2$O$_4$ and +Cr$_2$O$_3$. Their damping constants were calculated to be $0.8\times10^{-4}$, +$0.2\times10^{-4}$, $2.2\times 10^{-4}$, respectively at a low temperature. The +results for Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ and Cr$_2$O$_3$ are in good agreement with +experimental measurements, while the discrepancy in MnFe$_2$O$_4$ can be +attributed to the inhomogeneity and small band gap in real samples. The +stronger damping observed in Cr$_2$O$_3$, compared to Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$, +essentially results from its stronger spin-lattice coupling. In addition, we +confirmed a proportional relationship between damping constants and the +temperature difference of subsystems, which had been reported in previous +studies. These successful applications suggest that our approach serves as a +promising candidate for estimating the Gilbert damping constant in magnetic +insulators.",2309.11152v1 +2008-11-25,The quantum-mechanical basis of an extended Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation for a current-carrying ferromagnetic wire,"An extended Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation is introduced to describe +the dynamics of inhomogeneous magnetization in a current-carrying wire. The +coefficients of all the terms in this equation are calculated +quantum-mechanically for a simple model which includes impurity scattering. +This is done by comparing the energies and lifetimes of a spin wave calculated +from the LLG equation and from the explicit model. Two terms are of particular +importance since they describe non-adiabatic spin-transfer torque and damping +processes which do not rely on spin-orbit coupling. It is shown that these +terms may have a significant influence on the velocity of a current-driven +domain wall and they become dominant in the case of a narrow wall.",0811.4118v1 +2019-06-25,Conductivity-Like Gilbert Damping due to Intraband Scattering in Epitaxial Iron,"Confirming the origin of Gilbert damping by experiment has remained a +challenge for many decades, even for simple ferromagnetic metals. In this +Letter, we experimentally identify Gilbert damping that increases with +decreasing electronic scattering in epitaxial thin films of pure Fe. This +observation of conductivity-like damping, which cannot be accounted for by +classical eddy current loss, is in excellent quantitative agreement with +theoretical predictions of Gilbert damping due to intraband scattering. Our +results resolve the longstanding question about a fundamental damping mechanism +and offer hints for engineering low-loss magnetic metals for cryogenic +spintronics and quantum devices.",1906.10326v2 +2008-08-28,Gilbert Damping in Conducting Ferromagnets II: Model Tests of the Torque-Correlation Formula,"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 +(Ga,Mn)As. These models are sufficiently simple that disorder-ladder-sum vertex +corrections to the long-wavelength spin-spin response function can be summed to +all orders. An important objective of this study is to assess the reliability +of practical approximate expressions which can be combined with electronic +structure calculations to estimate Gilbert damping in more complex systems.",0808.3923v1 +2010-01-26,Effect of spin-conserving scattering on Gilbert damping in ferromagnetic semiconductors,"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 spin relaxation channel due to the momentum dependent +effective magnetic field of the spin-orbit coupling, thereby modifies the +Gilbert damping. In the presence of a pure spin current, we predict a new +contribution due to the interplay of the anisotropic spin-orbit coupling and a +pure spin current.",1001.4576v1 +2011-05-20,"Magnetization Dissipation in the Ferromagnetic Semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As","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 itinerant holes dominates the relaxation processes. In the +diffusive regime, the breathing Fermi-surface effect is balanced by the effects +of interband scattering, which cause the Gilbert damping constant to saturate +at around 0.005. In small samples, the system shape induces a large anisotropy +in the Gilbert damping.",1105.4148v2 +2008-12-17,Origin of intrinsic Gilbert damping,"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 damping and its direction is given by the vector product of the +magnetization and its time derivative. Here we derive the Gilbert term from +first principles by a non-relativistic expansion of the Dirac equation. We find +that the Gilbert term arises when one calculates the time evolution of the spin +observable in the presence of the full spin-orbital coupling terms, while +recognizing the relationship between the curl of the electric field and the +time varying magnetic induction.",0812.3184v2 +2019-07-01,Magnon decay theory of Gilbert damping in metallic antiferromagnets,"Gilbert damping is a key property governing magnetization dynamics in ordered +magnets. We present a theoretical study of intrinsic Gilbert damping induced by +magnon decay in antiferromagnetic metals through $s$-$d$ exchange interaction. +Our theory delineates the qualitative features of damping in metallic +antiferromagnets owing to their bipartite nature, in addition to providing +analytic expressions for the damping parameters. Magnon-induced intraband +electron scattering is found to predominantly cause magnetization damping, +whereas the N\'eel field is found to be damped via disorder. Depending on the +conduction electron band structure, we predict that magnon-induced interband +electron scattering around band crossings may be exploited to engineer a strong +N\'eel field damping.",1907.01045v1 +2022-11-24,Influence of non-local damping on magnon properties of ferromagnets,"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 +modelling. However, recent works have revealed that Gilbert damping is a +non-local quantity that allows for energy dissipation between atomic sites. +With the Gilbert damping parameters calculated from a state-of-the-art +real-space electronic structure method, magnon lifetimes are evaluated from +spin dynamics and linear response, where a good agreement is found between +these two methods. It is found that non-local damping affects the magnon +lifetimes in different ways depending on the system. Specifically, we find that +in Fe, Co, and Ni the non-local damping decreases the magnon lifetimes, while +in $\rm Fe_{70}Co_{30}$ and Fe$_{50}$Co$_{50}$ an opposite, non-local damping +effect is observed, and our data show that it is much stronger in the former.",2211.13486v1 +2010-02-26,Correlation Effects in the Stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert Equation,"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 $\tau$. The mean value for the spin wave components offers that the +spin-wave dispersion relation and its damping is strongly influenced by the +deterministic Gilbert damping parameter $\alpha$, the strength of the +stochastic forces $D$ and its temporal range $\tau$. The spin-spin-correlation +function can be calculated in the low correlation time limit by deriving an +evolution equation for the joint probability function. The stability analysis +enables us to find the phase diagram within the $\alpha-D$ plane for different +values of $\tau$ where damped spin wave solutions are stable. Even for zero +deterministic Gilbert damping the magnons offer a finite lifetime. We detect a +parameter range where the deterministic and the stochastic damping mechanism +are able to compensate each other leading to undamped spin-waves. The onset is +characterized by a critical value of the correlation time. An enhancement of +$\tau$ leads to an increase of the oscillations of the correlation function.",1002.4958v1 +2019-02-26,Enhanced Gilbert Damping in Re doped FeCo Films: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study,"The effects of rhenium doping in the range 0 to 10 atomic percent on the +static and dynamic magnetic properties of Fe65Co35 thin films have been studied +experimentally as well as with first principles electronic structure +calculations focusing on the change of the saturation magnetization and the +Gilbert damping parameter. Both experimental and theoretical results show that +the saturation magnetization decreases with increasing Re doping level, while +at the same time Gilbert damping parameter increases. The experimental low +temperature saturation magnetic induction exhibits a 29 percent decrease, from +2.31 T to 1.64 T, in the investigated doping concentration range, which is more +than predicted by the theoretical calculations. The room temperature value of +the damping parameter obtained from ferromagnetic resonance measurements, +correcting for extrinsic contributions to the damping, is for the undoped +sample 0.0027, which is close to the theoretically calculated Gilbert damping +parameter. With 10 atomic percent Re doping, the damping parameter increases to +0.0090, which is in good agreement with the theoretical value of 0.0073. The +increase in damping parameter with Re doping is explained by the increase in +density of states at Fermi level, mostly contributed by the spin-up channel of +Re. Moreover, both experimental and theoretical values for the damping +parameter are observed to be weakly decreasing with decreasing temperature.",1902.09896v1 +2018-12-18,Thermal gradient driven domain wall dynamics,"The issue of whether a thermal gradient acts like a magnetic field or an +electric current in the domain wall (DW) dynamics is investigated. Broadly +speaking, magnetization control knobs can be classified as energy-driving or +angular-momentum driving forces. DW propagation driven by a static magnetic +field is the best-known example of the former in which the DW speed is +proportional to the energy dissipation rate, and the current-driven DW motion +is an example of the latter. Here we show that DW propagation speed driven by a +thermal gradient can be fully explained as the angular momentum transfer +between thermally generated spin current and DW. We found DW-plane rotation +speed increases as DW width decreases. Both DW propagation speed along the wire +and DW-plane rotation speed around the wire decrease with the Gilbert damping. +These facts are consistent with the angular momentum transfer mechanism, but +are distinct from the energy dissipation mechanism. We further show that +magnonic spin-transfer torque (STT) generated by a thermal gradient has both +damping-like and field-like components. By analyzing DW propagation speed and +DW-plane rotation speed, the coefficient ( \b{eta}) of the field-like STT +arising from the non-adiabatic process, is obtained. It is found that \b{eta} +does not depend on the thermal gradient; increases with uniaxial anisotropy +K_(||) (thinner DW); and decreases with the damping, in agreement with the +physical picture that a larger damping or a thicker DW leads to a better +alignment between the spin-current polarization and the local magnetization, or +a better adiabaticity.",1812.07244v2 +2023-06-07,Helicity-dependent optical control of the magnetization state emerging from the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation,"It is well known that the Gilbert relaxation time of a magnetic moment scales +inversely with the magnitude of the externally applied field, H, and the +Gilbert damping, {\alpha}. Therefore, in ultrashort optical pulses, where H can +temporarily be extremely large, the Gilbert relaxation time can momentarily be +extremely short, reaching even picosecond timescales. Here we show that for +typical ultrashort pulses, the optical control of the magnetization emerges by +merely considering the optical magnetic field in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert +(LLG) equation. Surprisingly, when circularly polarized optical pulses are +introduced to the LLG equation, an optically induced helicity-dependent torque +results. We find that the strength of the interaction is determined by +{\eta}={\alpha}{\gamma}H/f_opt, where f_opt and {\gamma} are the optical +frequency and gyromagnetic ratio. Our results illustrate the generality of the +LLG equation to the optical limit and the pivotal role of the Gilbert damping +in the general interaction between optical magnetic fields and spins in solids.",2306.04617v2 +2018-04-03,Generalisation of Gilbert damping and magnetic inertia parameter as a series of higher-order relativistic terms,"The phenomenological Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation of motion remains +as the cornerstone of contemporary magnetisation dynamics studies, wherein the +Gilbert damping parameter has been attributed to first-order relativistic +effects. To include magnetic inertial effects the LLG equation has previously +been extended with a supplemental inertia term and the arising inertial +dynamics has been related to second-order relativistic effects. Here we start +from the relativistic Dirac equation and, performing a Foldy-Wouthuysen +transformation, derive a generalised Pauli spin Hamiltonian that contains +relativistic correction terms to any higher order. Using the Heisenberg +equation of spin motion we derive general relativistic expressions for the +tensorial Gilbert damping and magnetic inertia parameters, and show that these +tensors can be expressed as series of higher-order relativistic correction +terms. We further show that, in the case of a harmonic external driving field, +these series can be summed and we provide closed analytical expressions for the +Gilbert and inertial parameters that are functions of the frequency of the +driving field.",1804.09242v1 +2016-08-02,Ferromagnetic Damping/Anti-damping in a Periodic 2D Helical surface; A Non-Equilibrium Keldysh Green Function Approach,"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 sea and Fermi surface components and obtain their contributions to the +electronic transport as well as the spin-orbit torque (SOT). Furthermore, we +obtain the expression for the Gilbert damping due to the surface state of a 3D +Topological Insulator (TI) and predicted its dependence on the direction of the +magnetization precession axis.",1608.00984v2 +2016-02-19,A systematic study of magnetodynamic properties at finite temperatures in doped permalloy from first principles calculations,"By means of first principles calculations, we have systematically +investigated how the magnetodynamic properties Gilbert damping, magnetization +and exchange stiffness are affected when permalloy (Py) +(Fe$_{0.19}$Ni$_{0.81}$) is doped with 4d or 5d transition metal impurities. We +find that the trends in the Gilbert damping can be understood from relatively +few basic parameters such as the density of states at the Fermi level, the +spin-orbit coupling and the impurity concentration. % The temperature +dependence of the Gilbert damping is found to be very weak which we relate to +the lack of intraband transitions in alloys. % Doping with $4d$ elements has no +major impact on the studied Gilbert damping, apart from diluting the host. +However, the $5d$ elements have a profound effect on the damping and allows it +to be tuned over a large interval while maintaining the magnetization and +exchange stiffness. % As regards spin stiffness, doping with early transition +metals results in considerable softening, whereas late transition metals have a +minor impact. % Our result agree well with earlier calculations where +available. In comparison to experiments, the computed Gilbert damping appears +slightly underestimated while the spin stiffness show good general agreement.",1602.06201v2 +2002-11-01,Exploring dynamical magnetism with time-dependent density-functional theory: from spin fluctuations to Gilbert damping,"We use time-dependent spin-density-functional theory to study dynamical +magnetic phenomena. First, we recall that the local-spin-density approximation +(LSDA) fails to account correctly for magnetic fluctuations in the paramagnetic +state of iron and other itinerant ferromagnets. Next, we construct a +gradient-dependent density functional that does not suffer from this problem of +the LSDA. This functional is then used to derive, for the first time, the +phenomenological Gilbert equation of micromagnetics directly from +time-dependent density-functional theory. Limitations and extensions of Gilbert +damping are discussed on this basis, and some comparisons with phenomenological +theories and experiments are made.",0211021v1 +2012-04-24,Nonlocal feedback in ferromagnetic resonance,"Ferromagnetic resonance in thin films is analyzed under the influence of +spatiotemporal feedback effects. The equation of motion for the magnetization +dynamics is nonlocal in both space and time and includes isotropic, anisotropic +and dipolar energy contributions as well as the conserved Gilbert- and the +non-conserved Bloch-damping. We derive an analytical expression for the +peak-to-peak linewidth. It consists of four separate parts originated by +Gilbert damping, Bloch-damping, a mixed Gilbert-Bloch component and a +contribution arising from retardation. In an intermediate frequency regime the +results are comparable with the commonly used Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert theory +combined with two-magnon processes. Retardation effects together with Gilbert +damping lead to a linewidth the frequency dependence of which becomes strongly +nonlinear. The relevance and the applicability of our approach to ferromagnetic +resonance experiments is discussed.",1204.5342v1 +2017-04-24,Spin injection into silicon detected by broadband ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy,"We studied the spin injection in a NiFe(Py)/Si system using broadband +ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy. The Gilbert damping parameter of the Py +layer on top of the Si channel was determined as a function of the Si doping +concentration and Py layer thickness. For fixed Py thickness we observed an +increase of the Gilbert damping parameter with decreasing resistivity of the Si +channel. For a fixed Si doping concentration we measured an increasing Gilbert +damping parameter for decreasing Py layer thickness. No increase of the Gilbert +damping parameter was found Py/Si samples with an insulating interlayer. We +attribute our observations to an enhanced spin injection into the +low-resistivity Si by spin pumping.",1704.07006v1 +2019-11-07,Quantum Oscillations of Gilbert Damping in Ferromagnetic/Graphene Bilayer Systems,"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 +proportional to the product of the spin-up and spin-down densities of states of +graphene. Consequently, the Gilbert damping constant in a strong magnetic field +oscillates as a function of the external magnetic field that originates from +the Landau level structure of graphene. We find that a measurement of the +oscillation period enables the strength of the exchange coupling constant to be +determined. The results demonstrate in theory that the ferromagnetic resonance +measurements may be used to detect the spin resolved electronic structure of +the adjacent materials, which is critically important for future spin device +evaluations.",1911.02775v2 +2021-03-11,Magnetoelastic Gilbert damping in magnetostrictive Fe$_{0.7}$Ga$_{0.3}$ thin films,"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 damping in all of the films (up to a factor of 10 at room +temperature). These claims are supported by broadband measurements of the +ferromagnetic resonance linewidths over a range of temperatures (5 to 400 K), +which serve to elucidate the effect of both the magnetostriction and phonon +relaxation on the magnetoelastic Gilbert damping.",2103.07008v1 +2022-01-27,Effect of vertex corrections on the enhancement of Gilbert damping in spin pumping into a two-dimensional electron gas,"We theoretically consider the effect of vertex correction on spin pumping +from a ferromagnetic insulator (FI) into a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) +in which the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions coexist. The +Gilbert damping in the FI is enhanced by elastic spin-flipping or magnon +absorption. We show that the Gilbert damping due to elastic spin-flipping is +strongly enhanced by the vertex correction when the ratio of the two spin-orbit +interactions is near a special value at which the spin relaxation time diverges +while that due to magnon absorption shows only small modification. We also show +that the shift in the resonant frequency due to elastic spin-flipping is +strongly enhanced in a similar way as the Gilbert damping.",2201.11498v3 +2016-02-22,Effects of Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert damping on domain growth,"Domain patterns are simulated by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation +with an easy-axis anisotropy. If the Gilbert damping is removed from the LLG +equation, it merely describes the precession of magnetization with a +ferromagnetic interaction. However, even without the damping, domains that look +similar to those of scalar fields are formed, and they grow with time. It is +demonstrated that the damping has no significant effects on domain growth laws +and large-scale domain structure. In contrast, small-scale domain structure is +affected by the damping. The difference in small-scale structure arises from +energy dissipation due to the damping.",1602.06673v3 +2018-06-13,Low magnetic damping of ferrimagnetic GdFeCo alloys,"We investigate the Gilbert damping parameter for rare earth (RE)-transition +metal (TM) ferrimagnets over a wide temperature range. Extracted from the +field-driven magnetic domain-wall mobility, the Gilbert damping parameter was +as low as 0.0072 and was almost constant across the angular momentum +compensation temperature, starkly contrasting previous predictions that the +Gilbert damping parameter should diverge at the angular momentum compensation +temperature due to vanishing total angular momentum. Thus, magnetic damping of +RE-TM ferrimagnets is not related to the total angular momentum but is +dominated by electron scattering at the Fermi level where the TM has a dominant +damping role.",1806.04881v1 +2023-06-22,"Gilbert damping in metallic ferromagnets from Schwinger-Keldysh field theory: Intrinsically nonlocal and nonuniform, and made anisotropic by spin-orbit coupling","Understanding the origin of damping mechanisms in magnetization dynamics of +metallic ferromagnets is a fundamental problem for nonequilibrium many-body +physics of systems where quantum conduction electrons interact with localized +spins assumed to be governed by the classical Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) +equation. It is also of critical importance for applications, as damping +affects energy consumption and speed of spintronic and magnonic devices. Since +the 1970s, a variety of linear-response and scattering theory approaches have +been developed to produce widely used formulas for computation of +spatially-independent Gilbert scalar parameter as the magnitude of the Gilbert +damping term in the LLG equation. The largely unexploited for this purpose +Schwinger-Keldysh field theory (SKFT) offers additional possibilities, such as +to rigorously derive an extended LLG equation by integrating quantum electrons +out. Here we derive such equation whose Gilbert damping for metallic +ferromagnets is nonlocal, i.e., dependent on all localized spins at a given +time, and nonuniform, even if all localized spins are collinear and spin-orbit +coupling (SOC) is absent. This is in sharp contrast to standard lore, where +nonlocal damping is considered to emerge only if localized spins are +noncollinear; for such situations, direct comparison on the example of magnetic +domain wall shows that SKFT-derived nonlocal damping is an order of magnitude +larger than the previously considered one. Switching on SOC makes such nonlocal +damping anisotropic, in contrast to standard lore where SOC is usually +necessary to obtain nonzero Gilbert damping scalar parameter. Our analytical +formulas, with their nonlocality being more prominent in low spatial +dimensions, are fully corroborated by numerically exact quantum-classical +simulations.",2306.13013v4 +2018-07-20,Another view on Gilbert damping in two-dimensional ferromagnets,"A keen interest towards technological implications of spin-orbit driven +magnetization dynamics requests a proper theoretical description, especially in +the context of a microscopic framework, to be developed. Indeed, magnetization +dynamics is so far approached within Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation which +characterizes torques on magnetization on purely phenomenological grounds. +Particularly, spin-orbit coupling does not respect spin conservation, leading +thus to angular momentum transfer to lattice and damping as a result. This +mechanism is accounted by the Gilbert damping torque which describes relaxation +of the magnetization to equilibrium. In this study we work out a microscopic +Kubo-St\v{r}eda formula for the components of the Gilbert damping tensor and +apply the elaborated formalism to a two-dimensional Rashba ferromagnet in the +weak disorder limit. We show that an exact analytical expression corresponding +to the Gilbert damping parameter manifests linear dependence on the scattering +rate and retains the constant value up to room temperature when no vibrational +degrees of freedom are present in the system. We argue that the methodology +developed in this paper can be safely applied to bilayers made of non- and +ferromagnetic metals, e.g., CoPt.",1807.07897v2 +2008-06-28,Theory of spin magnetohydrodynamics,"We develop a phenomenological hydrodynamic theory of coherent magnetic +precession coupled to electric currents. Exchange interaction between electron +spin and collective magnetic texture produces two reciprocal effects: +spin-transfer torque on the magnetic order parameter and the Berry-phase gauge +field experienced by the itinerant electrons. The dissipative processes are +governed by three coefficients: the ohmic resistance, Gilbert damping of the +magnetization, and the ""beta coefficient"" describing viscous coupling between +magnetic dynamics and electric current, which stems from spin mistracking of +the magnetic order. We develop general magnetohydrodynamic equations and +discuss the net dissipation produced by the coupled dynamics. The latter in +particular allows us to determine a lower bound on the magnetic-texture +resistivity.",0806.4656v2 +2008-11-13,"Intrinsic Coupling between Current and Domain Wall Motion in (Ga,Mn)As","We consider current-induced domain wall motion and, the reciprocal process, +moving domain wall-induced current. The associated Onsager coefficients are +expressed in terms of scattering matrices. Uncommonly, in (Ga,Mn)As, the +effective Gilbert damping coefficient $\alpha_w$ and the effective out-of-plane +spin transfer torque parameter $\beta_w$ are dominated by spin-orbit +interaction in combination with scattering off the domain wall, and not +scattering off extrinsic impurities. Numerical calculations give $\alpha_w \sim +0.01$ and $\beta_w \sim 1$ in dirty (Ga,Mn)As. The extraordinary large +$\beta_w$ parameter allows experimental detection of current or voltage induced +by domain wall motion in (Ga,Mn)As.",0811.2235v2 +2009-05-01,Spin excitations in a monolayer scanned by a magnetic tip,"Energy dissipation via spin excitations is investigated for a hard +ferromagnetic tip scanning a soft magnetic monolayer. We use the classical +Heisenberg model with Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG)-dynamics including a +stochastic field representing finite temperatures. The friction force depends +linearly on the velocity (provided it is small enough) for all temperatures. +For low temperatures, the corresponding friction coefficient is proportional to +the phenomenological damping constant of the LLG equation. This dependence is +lost at high temperatures, where the friction coefficient decreases +exponentially. These findings can be explained by properties of the spin +polarization cloud dragged along with the tip.",0905.0112v2 +2016-05-21,Landau-Lifshitz theory of the magnon-drag thermopower,"Metallic ferromagnets subjected to a temperature gradient exhibit a magnonic +drag of the electric current. We address this problem by solving a stochastic +Landau-Lifshitz equation to calculate the magnon-drag thermopower. The +long-wavelength magnetic dynamics result in two contributions to the +electromotive force acting on electrons: (1) An adiabatic Berry-phase force +related to the solid angle subtended by the magnetic precession and (2) a +dissipative correction thereof, which is rooted microscopically in the +spin-dephasing scattering. The first contribution results in a net force +pushing the electrons towards the hot side, while the second contribution drags +electrons towards the cold side, i.e., in the direction of the magnonic drift. +The ratio between the two forces is proportional to the ratio between the +Gilbert damping coefficient $\alpha$ and the coefficient $\beta$ parametrizing +the dissipative contribution to the electromotive force.",1605.06578v1 +2019-06-17,Controlling acoustic waves using magnetoelastic Fano resonances,"We propose and analyze theoretically a class of energy-efficient +magneto-elastic devices for analogue signal processing. The signals are carried +by transverse acoustic waves while the bias magnetic field controls their +scattering from a magneto-elastic slab. By tuning the bias field, one can alter +the resonant frequency at which the propagating acoustic waves hybridize with +the magnetic modes, and thereby control transmission and reflection +coefficients of the acoustic waves. The scattering coefficients exhibit +Breit-Wigner/Fano resonant behaviour akin to inelastic scattering in atomic and +nuclear physics. Employing oblique incidence geometry, one can effectively +enhance the strength of magnetoelastic coupling, and thus countermand the +magnetic losses due to the Gilbert damping. We apply our theory to discuss +potential benefits and issues in realistic systems and suggest further routes +to enhance performance of the proposed devices.",1906.07297v2 +2017-05-21,Dynamical depinning of chiral domain walls,"The domain wall depinning field represents the minimum magnetic field needed +to move a domain wall, typically pinned by samples' disorder or patterned +constrictions. Conventionally, such field is considered independent on the +Gilbert damping since it is assumed to be the field at which the Zeeman energy +equals the pinning energy barrier (both damping independent). Here, we analyse +numerically the domain wall depinning field as function of the Gilbert damping +in a system with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya +interaction. Contrary to expectations, we find that the depinning field depends +on the Gilbert damping and that it strongly decreases for small damping +parameters. We explain this dependence with a simple one-dimensional model and +we show that the reduction of the depinning field is related to the internal +domain wall dynamics, proportional to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, +and the finite size of the pinning barriers.",1705.07489v2 +2019-01-07,Giant anisotropy of Gilbert damping in epitaxial CoFe films,"Tailoring Gilbert damping of metallic ferromagnetic thin films is one of the +central interests in spintronics applications. Here we report a giant Gilbert +damping anisotropy in epitaxial Co$_{50}$Fe$_{50}$ thin film with a +maximum-minimum damping ratio of 400 \%, determined by broadband spin-torque as +well as inductive ferromagnetic resonance. We conclude that the origin of this +damping anisotropy is the variation of the spin orbit coupling for different +magnetization orientations in the cubic lattice, which is further corroborate +from the magnitude of the anisotropic magnetoresistance in Co$_{50}$Fe$_{50}$.",1901.01941v1 +2019-11-02,Tuning Non-Gilbert-type damping in FeGa films on MgO(001) via oblique deposition,"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 surface or interface in thin films, two-magnon scattering (TMS) acts as a +non-Gilbert damping mechanism in magnetization relaxation. In this work, the +contribution of TMS was characterized by in-plane angular dependent +ferromagnetic resonance (FMR). It is demonstrated that the intrinsic Gilbert +damping is isotropic and invariant, while the extrinsic mechanism related to +TMS is anisotropic and can be tuned by oblique deposition. Furthermore, the two +and fourfold TMS related to the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy (UMA) and +magnetocrystalline anisotropy were discussed. Our results open an avenue to +manipulate magnetization relaxation in spintronic devices.",1911.00728v1 +2001-10-11,Enhanced Gilbert Damping in Thin Ferromagnetic Films,"Using a scattering matrix approach, the precession of the magnetization of a +ferromagnet is shown to transfer spins into adjacent normal metal layers. This +``pumping'' of spins slows down the precession corresponding to an enhanced +Gilbert damping factor in the Landau-Lifshitz equation. The damping is +expressed in terms of the scattering matrix of the ferromagnet-normal metal +interface, which is accessible to model and first-principles calculations. Our +estimates for permalloy thin films explain the trends observed in recent +experiments.",0110247v2 +2006-01-10,Voltage dependence of Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert damping of a spin in a current driven tunnel junction,"We present a theory of Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert damping $\alpha$ for a +localized spin ${\vec S}$ in the junction coupled to the conduction electrons +in both leads under an applied volatege $V$. We find the voltage dependence of +the damping term reflecting the energy dependence of the density of states. We +find the effect is linear in the voltage and cotrolled by particle-hole +asymmetry of the leads.",0601185v1 +2015-02-06,Microscopic theory of Gilbert damping in metallic ferromagnets,"We present a microscopic theory for magnetization relaxation in metallic +ferromagnets of nanoscopic dimensions that is based on the dynamic spin +response matrix in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. Our approach allows the +calculation of the spin excitation damping rate even for perfectly crystalline +systems, where existing microscopic approaches fail. We demonstrate that the +relaxation properties are not completely determined by the transverse +susceptibility alone, and that the damping rate has a non-negligible frequency +dependence in experimentally relevant situations. Our results indicate that the +standard Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert phenomenology is not always appropriate to +describe spin dynamics of metallic nanostructure in the presence of strong +spin-orbit coupling.",1502.02068v1 +2018-05-03,"Exact Intrinsic Localized Excitation of an Anisotropic Ferromagnetic Spin Chain in External Magnetic Field with Gilbert Damping, Spin Current and PT-Symmetry","We obtain the exact one-spin intrinsic localized excitation in an anisotropic +Heisenberg ferromagnetic spin chain in a constant/variable external magnetic +field with Gilbert damping included. We also point out how an appropriate +magnitude spin current term in a spin transfer nano-oscillator (STNO) can +stabilize the tendency towards damping. Further, we show how this excitation +can be sustained in a recently suggested PT-symmetric magnetic nanostructure. +We also briefly consider more general spin excitations.",1805.01230v1 +2011-04-08,Magnetization Dissipation in Ferromagnets from Scattering Theory,"The magnetization dynamics of ferromagnets are often formulated in terms of +the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation. The reactive part of this equation +describes the response of the magnetization in terms of effective fields, +whereas the dissipative part is parameterized by the Gilbert damping tensor. We +formulate a scattering theory for the magnetization dynamics and map this +description on the linearized LLG equation by attaching electric contacts to +the ferromagnet. The reactive part can then be expressed in terms of the static +scattering matrix. The dissipative contribution to the low-frequency +magnetization dynamics can be described as an adiabatic energy pumping process +to the electronic subsystem by the time-dependent magnetization. The Gilbert +damping tensor depends on the time derivative of the scattering matrix as a +function of the magnetization direction. By the fluctuation-dissipation +theorem, the fluctuations of the effective fields can also be formulated in +terms of the quasistatic scattering matrix. The theory is formulated for +general magnetization textures and worked out for monodomain precessions and +domain wall motions. We prove that the Gilbert damping from scattering theory +is identical to the result obtained by the Kubo formalism.",1104.1625v1 +2022-02-12,Generalization of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation by multi-body contributions to Gilbert damping for non-collinear magnets,"We propose a systematic and sequential expansion of the +Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation utilizing the dependence of the Gilbert +damping tensor on the angle between magnetic moments, which arises from +multi-body scattering processes. The tensor consists of a damping-like term and +a correction to the gyromagnetic ratio. Based on electronic structure theory, +both terms are shown to depend on e.g. the scalar, anisotropic, vector-chiral +and scalar-chiral products of magnetic moments: $\vec{e}_i\cdot\vec{e}_j$, +$(\vec{n}_{ij}\cdot\vec{e}_i)(\vec{n}_{ij}\cdot\vec{e}_j)$, +$\vec{n}_{ij}\cdot(\vec{e}_i\times\vec{e}_j)$, $(\vec{e}_i\cdot\vec{e}_j)^2$, +$\vec{e}_i\cdot(\vec{e}_j\times\vec{e}_k)$..., where some terms are subjected +to the spin-orbit field $\vec{n}_{ij}$ in first and second order. We explore +the magnitude of the different contributions using both the Alexander-Anderson +model and time-dependent density functional theory in magnetic adatoms and +dimers deposited on Au(111) surface.",2202.06154v1 +2022-11-23,The fractional Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation,"The dynamics of a magnetic moment or spin are of high interest to +applications in technology. Dissipation in these systems is therefore of +importance for improvement of efficiency of devices, such as the ones proposed +in spintronics. A large spin in a magnetic field is widely assumed to be +described by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation, which includes a +phenomenological Gilbert damping. Here, we couple a large spin to a bath and +derive a generic (non-)Ohmic damping term for the low-frequency range using a +Caldeira-Leggett model. This leads to a fractional LLG equation, where the +first-order derivative Gilbert damping is replaced by a fractional derivative +of order $s \ge 0$. We show that the parameter $s$ can be determined from a +ferromagnetic resonance experiment, where the resonance frequency and linewidth +no longer scale linearly with the effective field strength.",2211.12889v1 +2018-05-04,Effective damping enhancement in noncollinear spin structures,"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 damping parameter in noncollinear magnetic systems is determined +describing the linewidth in resonance experiments or the decay parameter in +time-resolved measurements. It is shown how the effective damping can be +calculated from the elliptic polarization of magnons, arising due to the +noncollinear spin arrangement. It is concluded that the effective damping is +larger than the Gilbert damping, and it may significantly differ between +excitation modes. Numerical results for the effective damping are presented for +the localized magnons in isolated skyrmions, with parameters based on the +Pd/Fe/Ir(111) model-type system.",1805.01815v2 +2023-12-14,"Nonlocal damping of spin waves in a magnetic insulator induced by normal, heavy, or altermagnetic metallic overlayer: a Schwinger-Keldysh field theory approach","Understanding spin wave (SW) damping, and how to control it to the point of +being able to amplify SW-mediated signals, is one of the key requirements to +bring the envisaged magnonic technologies to fruition. Even widely used +magnetic insulators with low magnetization damping in their bulk, such as +yttrium iron garnet, exhibit 100-fold increase in SW damping due to inevitable +contact with metallic layers in magnonic circuits, as observed in very recent +experiments [I. Bertelli et al., Adv. Quantum Technol. 4, 2100094 (2021)] +mapping SW damping in spatially-resolved fashion. Here, we provide microscopic +and rigorous understanding of wavevector-dependent SW damping using extended +Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with nonlocal damping tensor, instead of +conventional local scalar Gilbert damping, as derived from Schwinger-Keldysh +nonequilibrium quantum field theory. In this picture, the origin of nonlocal +magnetization damping and thereby induced wavevector-dependent SW damping is +interaction of localized magnetic moments of magnetic insulator with conduction +electrons from the examined three different types of metallic overlayers -- +normal, heavy, and altermagnetic. Due to spin-split energy-momentum dispersion +of conduction electrons in the latter two cases, the nonlocal damping is +anisotropic in spin and space, and it can be dramatically reduced by changing +the relative orientation of the two layers when compared to the usage of normal +metal overlayer.",2312.09140v1 +2017-03-20,Relativistic theory of magnetic inertia in ultrafast spin dynamics,"The influence of possible magnetic inertia effects has recently drawn +attention in ultrafast magnetization dynamics and switching. Here we derive +rigorously a description of inertia in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation on +the basis of the Dirac-Kohn-Sham framework. Using the Foldy-Wouthuysen +transformation up to the order of $1/c^4$ gives the intrinsic inertia of a pure +system through the 2$^{\rm nd}$ order time-derivative of magnetization in the +dynamical equation of motion. Thus, the inertial damping $\mathcal{I}$ is a +higher order spin-orbit coupling effect, $\sim 1/c^4$, as compared to the +Gilbert damping $\Gamma$ that is of order $1/c^2$. Inertia is therefore +expected to play a role only on ultrashort timescales (sub-picoseconds). We +also show that the Gilbert damping and inertial damping are related to one +another through the imaginary and real parts of the magnetic susceptibility +tensor respectively.",1704.01559v1 +2019-07-10,The superior role of the Gilbert damping on the signal-to-noise ratio in heat-assisted magnetic recording,"In magnetic recording the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is a good indicator for +the quality of written bits. However, a priori it is not clear which parameters +have the strongest influence on the SNR. In this work, we investigate the role +of the Gilbert damping on the SNR. Grains consisting of FePt like hard magnetic +material with two different grain sizes $d_1=5\,$nm and $d_2=7\,$nm are +considered and simulations of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) are +performed with the atomistic simulation program VAMPIRE. The simulations +display that the SNR saturates for damping constants larger or equal than 0.1. +Additionally, we can show that the Gilbert damping together with the bit length +have a major effect on the SNR whereas other write head and material parameters +only have a minor relevance on the SNR.",1907.04577v2 +2019-10-24,Spin waves in ferromagnetic thin films,"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 at a constant velocity. Our main findings include: (1) in the +absence of Gilbert damping, the spin wave propagates at a constant velocity +with the increment proportional to the strength of the magnetic field; (2) in +the absence of magnetic field, at a given time the spin wave converges +exponentially fast to its initial profile as the damping parameter goes to zero +and in the long time the relaxation dynamics of the spin wave converges +exponentially fast to the easy-axis direction with the exponent proportional to +the damping parameter; (3) in the presence of both Gilbert damping and magnetic +field, the spin wave converges to the easy-axis direction exponentially fast at +a small timescale while propagates at a constant velocity beyond that. These +provides a comprehensive understanding of spin waves in ferromagnetic +materials.",1910.11200v1 +2020-06-30,Negative Gilbert damping in cavity optomagnonics,"Exceptional point (EP) associated with the parity-time (PT) symmetry breaking +is receiving considerable recent attention by the broad physics community. By +introducing balanced gain and loss, it has been realized in photonic, acoustic, +and electronic structures. However, the observation of magnonic EP remains +elusive. The major challenge is to experimentally generate the negative Gilbert +damping, which was thought to be highly unlikely but is demanded by the PT +symmetry. In this work, we study the magneto-optical interaction of +circularly-polarized lasers with a submicron magnet placed in an optical +cavity. We show that the off-resonant coupling between the driving laser and +cavity photon in the far-blue detuning can induce the magnetic gain (or +negative damping) exactly of the Gilbert type. A hyperbolic-tangent function +ansatz is found to well describe the time-resolved spin switching as the +intrinsic magnetization dissipation is overcome. When the optically pumped +magnet interacts with a purely lossy one, we observe a phase transition from +the imbalanced to passive PT symmetries by varying the detuning coeffcient. Our +findings provide a feasible way to manipulate the sign of the magnetic damping +parameter and to realize the EP in cavity optomagnonics.",2006.16510v1 +2017-11-20,Spin Pumping in Ion-beam Sputtered Co_{2}FeAl/Mo Bilayers:Interfacial Gilbert Damping,"The spin pumping mechanism and associated interfacial Gilbert damping are +demonstrated in ion-beam sputtered Co2FeAl (CFA) /Mo bilayer thin films +employing ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy. The dependence of the net spin +current transportation on Mo layer thickness, 0 to 10 nm, and the enhancement +of the net effective Gilbert damping are reported. The experimental data has +been analyzed using spin pumping theory in terms of spin current pumped through +the ferromagnet /nonmagnetic metal interface to deduce the effective spin +mixing conductance and the spin-diffusion length, which are estimated to be +1.16(0.19)x10^19 m^-2 and 3.50(0.35)nm, respectively. The damping constant is +found to be 8.4(0.3)x10^-3 in the Mo(3.5nm) capped CFA(8nm) sample +corresponding to a ~42% enhancement of the original Gilbert damping +(6.0(0.3)x10^-3) in the uncapped CFA layer. This is further confirmed by +inserting a Cu dusting layer which reduces the spin transport across the CFA +/Mo interface. The Mo layer thickness dependent net spin current density is +found to lie in the range of 1-3 MAm^-2, which also provides additional +quantitative evidence of spin pumping in this bilayer thin film system.",1711.07455v1 +2008-05-21,Non-equilibrium thermodynamic study of magnetization dynamics in the presence of spin-transfer torque,"The dynamics of magnetization in the presence of spin-transfer torque was +studied. We derived the equation for the motion of magnetization in the +presence of a spin current by using the local equilibrium assumption in +non-equilibrium thermodynamics. We show that, in the resultant equation, the +ratio of the Gilbert damping constant, $\alpha$, and the coefficient, $\beta$, +of the current-induced torque, called non-adiabatic torque, depends on the +relaxation time of the fluctuating field $\tau_{c}$. The equality +$\alpha=\beta$ holds when $\tau_c$ is very short compared to the time scale of +magnetization dynamics. We apply our theory to current-induced magnetization +reversal in magnetic multilayers and show that the switching time is a +decreasing function of $\tau_{c}$.",0805.3306v1 +2010-08-03,Determination of the spin-flip time in ferromagnetic SrRuO3 from time-resolved Kerr measurements,"We report time-resolved Kerr effect measurements of magnetization dynamics in +ferromagnetic SrRuO3. We observe that the demagnetization time slows +substantially at temperatures within 15K of the Curie temperature, which is ~ +150K. We analyze the data with a phenomenological model that relates the +demagnetization time to the spin flip time. In agreement with our observations +the model yields a demagnetization time that is inversely proportional to T-Tc. +We also make a direct comparison of the spin flip rate and the Gilbert damping +coefficient showing that their ratio very close to kBTc, indicating a common +origin for these phenomena.",1008.0674v1 +2015-03-26,Thermophoresis of an Antiferromagnetic Soliton,"We study dynamics of an antiferromagnetic soliton under a temperature +gradient. To this end, we start by phenomenologically constructing the +stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation for an antiferromagnet with the aid +of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. We then derive the Langevin equation +for the soliton's center of mass by the collective coordinate approach. An +antiferromagentic soliton behaves as a classical massive particle immersed in a +viscous medium. By considering a thermodynamic ensemble of solitons, we obtain +the Fokker-Planck equation, from which we extract the average drift velocity of +a soliton. The diffusion coefficient is inversely proportional to a small +damping constant $\alpha$, which can yield a drift velocity of tens of m/s +under a temperature gradient of $1$ K/mm for a domain wall in an easy-axis +antiferromagnetic wire with $\alpha \sim 10^{-4}$.",1503.07854v2 +2016-04-24,Coupled Spin-Light dynamics in Cavity Optomagnonics,"Experiments during the past two years have shown strong resonant +photon-magnon coupling in microwave cavities, while coupling in the optical +regime was demonstrated very recently for the first time. Unlike with +microwaves, the coupling in optical cavities is parametric, akin to +optomechanical systems. This line of research promises to evolve into a new +field of optomagnonics, aimed at the coherent manipulation of elementary +magnetic excitations by optical means. In this work we derive the microscopic +optomagnonic Hamiltonian. In the linear regime the system reduces to the +well-known optomechanical case, with remarkably large coupling. Going beyond +that, we study the optically induced nonlinear classical dynamics of a +macrospin. In the fast cavity regime we obtain an effective equation of motion +for the spin and show that the light field induces a dissipative term +reminiscent of Gilbert damping. The induced dissipation coefficient however can +change sign on the Bloch sphere, giving rise to self-sustained oscillations. +When the full dynamics of the system is considered, the system can enter a +chaotic regime by successive period doubling of the oscillations.",1604.07053v3 +2018-02-07,Breaking the current density threshold in spin-orbit-torque magnetic random access memory,"Spin-orbit-torque magnetic random access memory (SOT-MRAM) is a promising +technology for the next generation of data storage devices. The main bottleneck +of this technology is the high reversal current density threshold. This +outstanding problem of SOT-MRAM is now solved by using a current density of +constant magnitude and varying flow direction that reduces the reversal current +density threshold by a factor of more than the Gilbert damping coefficient. The +Euler-Lagrange equation for the fastest magnetization reversal path and the +optimal current pulse are derived for an arbitrary magnetic cell. The +theoretical limit of minimal reversal current density and current density for a +GHz switching rate of the new reversal strategy for CoFeB/Ta SOT-MRAMs are +respectively of the order of $10^5$ A/cm$^2$ and $10^6$ A/cm$^2$ far below +$10^7$ A/cm$^2$ and $10^8$ A/cm$^2$ in the conventional strategy. Furthermore, +no external magnetic field is needed for a deterministic reversal in the new +strategy.",1802.02415v1 +2022-04-22,A short-circuited coplanar waveguide for low-temperature single-port ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy set-up to probe the magnetic properties of ferromagnetic thin films,"A coplanar waveguide shorted in one end is proposed, designed, and +implemented successfully to measure the properties of magnetic thin films as a +part of the vector network analyzer ferromagnetic resonance (VNA-FMR) +spectroscopy set-up. Its simple structure, potential applications and easy +installation inside the cryostat chamber made it advantageous especially for +low-temperature measurements. It provides a wide band of frequencies in the +gigahertz range essential for FMR measurements. Our spectroscopy set-up with +short-circuited coplanar waveguide has been used to extract Gilbert damping +coefficient and effective magnetization values for standard ferromagnetic thin +films like Py and Co. The thickness and temperature dependent studies of those +magnetic parameters have also been done here for the afore mentioned magnetic +samples.",2204.10596v2 +2014-04-05,Gilbert damping in noncollinear ferromagnets,"The precession and damping of a collinear magnetization displaced from its +equilibrium are described by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. For a +noncollinear magnetization, it is not known how the damping should be +described. We use first-principles scattering theory to investigate the damping +in one-dimensional transverse domain walls (DWs) of the important ferromagnetic +alloy Ni$_{80}$Fe$_{20}$ and interpret the results in terms of phenomenological +models. The damping is found to depend not only on the magnetization texture +but also on the specific dynamic modes of Bloch and N\'eel DWs. Even in the +highly disordered Ni$_{80}$Fe$_{20}$ alloy, the damping is found to be +remarkably nonlocal.",1404.1488v2 +2019-11-21,Low damping and microstructural perfection of sub-40nm-thin yttrium iron garnet films grown by liquid phase epitaxy,"The field of magnon spintronics is experiencing an increasing interest in the +development of solutions for spin-wave-based data transport and processing +technologies that are complementary or alternative to modern CMOS +architectures. Nanometer-thin yttrium iron garnet (YIG) films have been the +gold standard for insulator-based spintronics to date, but a potential process +technology that can deliver perfect, homogeneous large-diameter films is still +lacking. We report that liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) enables the deposition of +nanometer-thin YIG films with low ferromagnetic resonance losses and +consistently high magnetic quality down to a thickness of 20 nm. The obtained +epitaxial films are characterized by an ideal stoichiometry and perfect film +lattices, which show neither significant compositional strain nor geometric +mosaicity, but sharp interfaces. Their magneto-static and dynamic behavior is +similar to that of single crystalline bulk YIG. We found, that the Gilbert +damping coefficient alpha is independent of the film thickness and close to 1 x +10-4, and that together with an inhomogeneous peak-to-peak linewidth broadening +of delta H0|| = 0.4 G, these values are among the lowest ever reported for YIG +films with a thickness smaller than 40 nm. These results suggest, that +nanometer-thin LPE films can be used to fabricate nano- and micro-scaled +circuits with the required quality for magnonic devices. The LPE technique is +easily scalable to YIG sample diameters of several inches.",1911.09400v1 +2003-04-04,Dynamic exchange coupling and Gilbert damping in magnetic multilayers,"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 absorbed by another ferromagnet. Relaxation of spins +outside the moving magnetization enhances the overall damping of the +magnetization dynamics in accordance with the Gilbert phenomenology. Transfer +of spins between different ferromagnets by these nonequilibrium spin currents +leads to a long-ranged dynamic exchange interaction and novel collective +excitation modes. Our predictions agree well with recent +ferromagnetic-resonance experiments on ultrathin magnetic films.",0304116v1 +2012-03-03,Scaling of intrinsic Gilbert damping with spin-orbital coupling strength,"We have experimentally and theoretically investigated the dependence of the +intrinsic Gilbert damping parameter $\alpha_0$ on the spin-orbital coupling +strength $\xi$ by using L1$_{\mathrm{0}}$ ordered +FePd$_{\mathrm{1-x}}$Pt$_{\mathrm{x}}$ ternary alloy films with perpendicular +magnetic anisotropy. With the time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect, +$\alpha_0$ is found to increase by more than a factor of ten when $x$ varies +from 0 to 1.0. Since changes of other leading parameters are found to be +neglected, the $\alpha_0$ has for the first time been proven to be proportional +to $\xi^2$.",1203.0607v1 +2013-03-20,Spin-pumping and Enhanced Gilbert Damping in Thin Magnetic Insulator Films,"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 in-plane wave vector. For long-wavelength spin waves, the enhanced +Gilbert damping for the transverse mode volume waves is twice that of the +macrospin mode, and for surface modes, the enhancement can be ten or more times +stronger. Spin-pumping is negligible for short-wavelength exchange spin waves. +We corroborate our analytical theory with numerical calculations in agreement +with recent experimental results.",1303.4922v1 +2022-06-10,Spin Pumping into Anisotropic Dirac Electrons,"We study spin pumping into an anisotropic Dirac electron system induced by +microwave irradiation to an adjacent ferromagnetic insulator theoretically. We +formulate the Gilbert damping enhancement due to the spin current flowing into +the Dirac electron system using second-order perturbation with respect to the +interfacial exchange coupling. As an illustration, we consider the anisotropic +Dirac system realized in bismuth to show that the Gilbert damping varies +according to the magnetization direction in the ferromagnetic insulator. Our +results indicate that this setup can provide helpful information on the +anisotropy of the Dirac electron system.",2206.04899v1 +2023-03-02,Spin Pumping into Carbon Nanotubes,"We theoretically study spin pumping from a ferromagnetic insulator (FI) into +a carbon nanotube (CNT). By employing the bosonization method, we formulate the +Gilbert damping induced by the FI/CNT junction, which can be measured by +ferromagnetic resonance. We show that the increase in the Gilbert damping has a +temperature dependence characteristic of a Luttinger liquid and is highly +sensitive to the Luttinger parameter of the spin sector for a clean interface. +We also discuss the experimental relevance of our findings based on numerical +estimates, using realistic parameters.",2303.01343v2 +2019-08-29,Enhancement of ultrafast demagnetization rate and Gilbert damping driven by femtosecond laser-induced spin currents in Fe81Ga19/Ir20Mn80 bilayers,"In spintronics applications, ultrafast spin dynamics have to be controlled at +femtosecond (fs) timescales via fs-laser radiation. At such ultrafast +timescales, the effect of the Gilbert damping factor {\alpha} on ultrafast +demagnetization time should be considered. In previous explorations for the +relationship between these two parameters, it was found that the theoretical +calculations based on the local spin-flip scattering model do not agree with +the experimental results. Here, we find that in Fe81Ga19(FeGa)/Ir20Mn80(IrMn) +bilayers, the unconventional IrMn thickness dependence of {\alpha} results from +the competition between spin currents pumped from the ferromagnetic (FM) FeGa +layer to the antiferromagnetic (AFM) IrMn layer and those pumped from the AFM +layer to the FM layer. More importantly, we establish a proportional +relationship between the change of the ultrafast demagnetization rate and the +enhancement of Gilbert damping induced by the spin currents via interfacial +spin chemical potential . Our work builds a bridge to connect the ultrafast +demagnetization time and Gilbert damping in ultrafast photo-induced spin +currents dominated systems, which not only explains the disagreement between +experimental and theoretical results in the relation of {\tau}_M with {\alpha}, +but provides further insight into ultrafast spin dynamics as well.",1908.11084v1 +2021-09-08,Room-Temperature Intrinsic and Extrinsic Damping in Polycrystalline Fe Thin Films,"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 of their microstructural properties. The remarkable invariance with +film microstructure strongly suggests that intrinsic Gilbert damping in +polycrystalline metals at room temperature is a local property of nanoscale +crystal grains, with limited impact from grain boundaries and film roughness. +By contrast, the in-plane FMR linewidths of the Fe films exhibit distinct +nonlinear frequency dependences, indicating the presence of strong extrinsic +damping. To fit our in-plane FMR data, we have used a grain-to-grain two-magnon +scattering model with two types of correlation functions aimed at describing +the spatial distribution of inhomogeneities in the film. However, neither of +the two correlation functions is able to reproduce the experimental data +quantitatively with physically reasonable parameters. Our findings advance the +fundamental understanding of intrinsic Gilbert damping in structurally +disordered films, while demonstrating the need for a deeper examination of how +microstructural disorder governs extrinsic damping.",2109.03684v2 +2006-06-09,Spin wave dynamics and the determination of intrinsic Gilbert damping in locally-excited Permalloy thin films,"Time-resolved scanning Kerr effect microscopy has been used to study +magnetization dynamics in Permalloy thin films excited by transient magnetic +pulses generated by a micrometer-scale transmission line structure. The results +are consistent with magnetostatic spin wave theory and are supported by +micromagnetic simulations. Magnetostatic volume and surface spin waves are +measured for the same specimen using different bias field orientations and can +be accurately calculated by k-space integrations over all excited plane wave +components. A single damping constant of Gilbert form is sufficient to describe +both scenarios. The nonuniform pulsed field plays a key role in the spin wave +dynamics, with its Fourier transform serving as a weighting function for the +participating modes. The intrinsic Gilbert damping parameter $\alpha$ is most +conveniently measured when the spin waves are effectively stationary.",0606235v3 +2007-05-10,Effective temperature and Gilbert damping of a current-driven localized spin,"Starting from a model that consists of a semiclassical spin coupled to two +leads we present a microscopic derivation of the Langevin equation for the +direction of the spin. For slowly-changing direction it takes on the form of +the stochastic Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert equation. We give expressions for the +Gilbert damping parameter and the strength of the fluctuations, including their +bias-voltage dependence. At nonzero bias-voltage the fluctuations and damping +are not related by the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. We find, however, that +in the low-frequency limit it is possible to introduce a voltage-dependent +effective temperature that characterizes the fluctuations in the direction of +the spin, and its transport-steady-state probability distribution function.",0705.1432v3 +2014-12-05,Calculating linear response functions for finite temperatures on the basis of the alloy analogy model,"A scheme is presented that is based on the alloy analogy model and allows to +account for thermal lattice vibrations as well as spin fluctuations when +calculating response quantities in solids. Various models to deal with spin +fluctuations are discussed concerning their impact on the resulting temperature +dependent magnetic moment, longitudinal conductivity and Gilbert damping +parameter. It is demonstrated that using the Monte Carlo (MC) spin +configuration as an input, the alloy analogy model is capable to reproduce +results of MC simulations on the average magnetic moment within all spin +fluctuation models under discussion. On the other hand, response quantities are +much more sensitive to the spin fluctuation model. Separate calculations +accounting for either the thermal effect due to lattice vibrations or spin +fluctuations show their comparable contributions to the electrical conductivity +and Gilbert damping. However, comparison to results accounting for both thermal +effects demonstrate violation of Matthiessen's rule, showing the non-additive +effect of lattice vibrations and spin fluctuations. The results obtained for +bcc Fe and fcc Ni are compared with the experimental data, showing rather good +agreement for the temperature dependent electrical conductivity and Gilbert +damping parameter.",1412.1988v1 +2015-10-13,Nonlocal torque operators in ab initio theory of the Gilbert damping in random ferromagnetic alloys,"We present an ab initio theory of the Gilbert damping in substitutionally +disordered ferromagnetic alloys. The theory rests on introduced nonlocal +torques which replace traditional local torque operators in the well-known +torque-correlation formula and which can be formulated within the atomic-sphere +approximation. The formalism is sketched in a simple tight-binding model and +worked out in detail in the relativistic tight-binding linear muffin-tin +orbital (TB-LMTO) method and the coherent potential approximation (CPA). The +resulting nonlocal torques are represented by nonrandom, non-site-diagonal and +spin-independent matrices, which simplifies the configuration averaging. The +CPA-vertex corrections play a crucial role for the internal consistency of the +theory and for its exact equivalence to other first-principles approaches based +on the random local torques. This equivalence is also illustrated by the +calculated Gilbert damping parameters for binary NiFe and FeCo random alloys, +for pure iron with a model atomic-level disorder, and for stoichiometric FePt +alloys with a varying degree of L10 atomic long-range order.",1510.03571v2 +2016-12-07,Gilbert damping of magnetostatic modes in a yttrium iron garnet sphere,"The magnetostatic mode (MSM) spectrum of a 300$\mu$m diameter single +crystalline sphere of yttrium iron garnet is investigated using broadband +ferromagnetic resonance (FMR). The individual MSMs are identified via their +characteristic dispersion relations and the corresponding mode number tuples +$(nmr)$ are assigned. Taking FMR data over a broad frequency and magnetic field +range allows to analyze both the Gilbert damping parameter~$\alpha$ and the +inhomogeneous line broadening contribution to the total linewidth of the MSMs +separately. The linewidth analysis shows that all MSMs share the same Gilbert +damping parameter $\alpha=2.7(5) \times 10^{-5}$ irrespective of their mode +index. In contrast, the inhomogeneous line broadening shows a pronounced mode +dependence. This observation is modeled in terms of two-magnon scattering +processes of the MSMs into the spin-wave manifold, mediated by surface and +volume defects.",1612.02360v1 +2018-05-29,Gilbert damping in non-collinear magnetic system,"The modification of the magnetization dissipation or Gilbert damping caused +by an inhomogeneous magnetic structure and expressed in terms of a wave vector +dependent tensor $\underline{\alpha}(\vec{q})$ is investigated by means of +linear response theory. A corresponding expression for +$\underline{\alpha}(\vec{q})$ in terms of the electronic Green function has +been developed giving in particular the leading contributions to the Gilbert +damping linear and quadratic in $q$. Numerical results for realistic systems +are presented that have been obtained by implementing the scheme within the +framework of the fully relativistic KKR (Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker) band structure +method. Using the multilayered system (Cu/Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$/Pt)$_n$ as an +example for systems without inversion symmetry we demonstrate the occurrence of +non-vanishing linear contributions. For the alloy system bcc Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$ +having inversion symmetry, on the other hand, only the quadratic contribution +is non-zero. As it is shown, this quadratic contribution does not vanish even +if the spin-orbit coupling is suppressed, i.e.\ it is a direct consequence of +the non-collinear spin configuration.",1805.11468v1 +2018-10-15,Localized spin waves in isolated $kπ$ skyrmions,"The localized magnon modes of isolated $k\pi$ skyrmions on a field-polarized +background are analyzed based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation within +the terms of an atomistic classical spin model, with system parameters based on +the Pd/Fe biatomic layer on Ir(111). For increasing skyrmion order $k$ a higher +number of excitation modes are found, including modes with nodes in the radial +eigenfunctions. It is shown that at low fields $2\pi$ and $3\pi$ skyrmions are +destroyed via a burst instability connected to a breathing mode, while $1\pi$ +skyrmions undergo an elliptic instability. At high fields all $k\pi$ skyrmions +collapse due to the instability of a breathing mode. The effective damping +parameters of the spin waves are calculated in the low Gilbert damping limit, +and they are found to diverge in the case of the lowest-lying modes at the +burst and collapse instabilities, but not at the elliptic instability. It is +shown that the breathing modes of $k\pi$ skyrmions may become overdamped at +higher Gilbert damping values.",1810.06471v1 +2018-10-24,Nearly isotropic spin-pumping related Gilbert damping in Pt/Ni$_{81}$Fe$_{19}$/Pt,"A recent theory by Chen and Zhang [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 126602 (2015)] +predicts strongly anisotropic damping due to interfacial spin-orbit coupling in +ultrathin magnetic films. Interfacial Gilbert-type relaxation, due to the spin +pumping effect, is predicted to be significantly larger for magnetization +oriented parallel to compared with perpendicular to the film plane. Here, we +have measured the anisotropy in the Pt/Ni$_{81}$Fe$_{19}$/Pt system via +variable-frequency, swept-field ferromagnetic resonance (FMR). We find a very +small anisotropy of enhanced Gilbert damping with sign opposite to the +prediction from the Rashba effect at the FM/Pt interface. The results are +contrary to the predicted anisotropy and suggest that a mechanism separate from +Rashba spin-orbit coupling causes the rapid onset of spin-current absorption in +Pt.",1810.10595v4 +2019-11-08,Giant anisotropy of Gilbert damping in a Rashba honeycomb antiferromagnet,"Giant Gilbert damping anisotropy is identified as a signature of strong +Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet on a honeycomb +lattice. The phenomenon originates in spin-orbit induced splitting of +conduction electron subbands that strongly suppresses certain spin-flip +processes. As a result, the spin-orbit interaction is shown to support an +undamped non-equilibrium dynamical mode that corresponds to an ultrafast +in-plane N\'eel vector precession and a constant perpendicular-to-the-plane +magnetization. The phenomenon is illustrated on the basis of a two dimensional +$s$-$d$ like model. Spin-orbit torques and conductivity are also computed +microscopically for this model. Unlike Gilbert damping these quantities are +shown to reveal only a weak anisotropy that is limited to the semiconductor +regime corresponding to the Fermi energy staying in a close vicinity of +antiferromagnetic gap.",1911.03408v1 +2005-05-10,Fluctuation-dissipation considerations and damping models for ferromagnetic materials,"The role of fluctuation-dissipation relations (theorems) for the +magnetization dynamics with Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert and Bloch-Bloembergen +damping terms are discussed. We demonstrate that the use of the Callen-Welton +fluctuation-dissipation theorem that was proven for Hamiltonian systems can +give an inconsistent result for magnetic systems with dissipation.",0505259v1 +2018-07-13,Gilbert damping of high anisotropy Co/Pt multilayers,"Using broadband ferromagnetic resonance, we measure the damping parameter of +[Co(5 \r{A})/Pt(3 \r{A})]${\times 6}$ multilayers whose growth was optimized to +maximize the perpendicular anisotropy. Structural characterizations indicate +abrupt interfaces essentially free of intermixing despite the miscible +character of Co and Pt. Gilbert damping parameters as low as 0.021 can be +obtained despite a magneto-crystalline anisotropy as large as +$10^6~\textrm{J/m}^3$. The inhomogeneous broadening accounts for part of the +ferromagnetic resonance linewidth, indicating some structural disorder leading +to a equivalent 20 mT of inhomogenity of the effective field. The unexpectedly +relatively low damping factor indicates that the presence of the Pt heavy metal +within the multilayer may not be detrimental to the damping provided that +intermixing is avoided at the Co/Pt interfaces.",1807.04977v1 +2019-08-23,Damping enhancement in coherent ferrite/insulating-paramagnet bilayers,"High-quality epitaxial ferrites, such as low-damping MgAl-ferrite (MAFO), are +promising nanoscale building blocks for all-oxide heterostructures driven by +pure spin current. However, the impact of oxide interfaces on spin dynamics in +such heterostructures remains an open question. Here, we investigate the spin +dynamics and chemical and magnetic depth profiles of 15-nm-thick MAFO +coherently interfaced with an isostructural $\approx$1-8-nm-thick overlayer of +paramagnetic CoCr$_2$O$_4$ (CCO) as an all-oxide model system. Compared to MAFO +without an overlayer, effective Gilbert damping in MAFO/CCO is enhanced by a +factor of $>$3, irrespective of the CCO overlayer thickness. We attribute this +damping enhancement to spin scattering at the $\sim$1-nm-thick chemically +disordered layer at the MAFO/CCO interface, rather than spin pumping or +proximity-induced magnetism. Our results indicate that damping in ferrite-based +heterostructures is strongly influenced by interfacial chemical disorder, even +if the thickness of the disordered layer is a small fraction of the ferrite +thickness.",1908.08629v2 +2006-11-23,Analytical solutions for two-level systems with damping,"A method is proposed to transform any analytic solution of the Bloch equation +into an analytic solution of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. This allows +for the analytical description of the dynamics of a two level system with +damping. This method shows that damping turns the linear Schr\""{o}dinger +equation of a two-level system into a nonlinear Schr\""{o}dinger equation. As +applications, it is shown that damping has a relatively mild influence on +self-induced transparency but destroys dynamical localization.",0611238v1 +2023-04-19,Thickness-dependent magnetic properties in Pt[CoNi]n multilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy,"We systematically investigated the Ni and Co thickness-dependent +perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) coefficient, magnetic domain +structures, and magnetization dynamics of Pt(5 nm)/[Co(t_Co nm)/Ni(t_Ni +nm)]5/Pt(1 nm) multilayers by combining the four standard magnetic +characterization techniques. The magnetic-related hysteresis loops obtained +from the field-dependent magnetization M and anomalous Hall resistivity (AHR) +\r{ho}_xy found that the two serial multilayers with t_Co = 0.2 and 0.3 nm have +the optimum PMA coefficient K_U well as the highest coercivity H_C at the Ni +thickness t_Ni = 0.6 nm. Additionally, the magnetic domain structures obtained +by Magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) microscopy also significantly depend on the +thickness and K_U of the films. Furthermore, the thickness-dependent linewidth +of ferromagnetic resonance is inversely proportional to K_U and H_C, indicating +that inhomogeneous magnetic properties dominate the linewidth. However, the +intrinsic Gilbert damping constant determined by a linear fitting of +frequency-dependent linewidth does not depend on Ni thickness and K_U. Our +results could help promote the PMA [Co/Ni] multilayer applications in various +spintronic and spin-orbitronic devices.",2304.09366v1 +2017-01-10,Magnetic properties in ultra-thin 3d transition metal alloys II: Experimental verification of quantitative theories of damping and spin-pumping,"A systematic experimental study of Gilbert damping is performed via +ferromagnetic resonance for the disordered crystalline binary 3d transition +metal alloys Ni-Co, Ni-Fe and Co-Fe over the full range of alloy compositions. +After accounting for inhomogeneous linewidth broadening, the damping shows +clear evidence of both interfacial damping enhancement (by spin pumping) and +radiative damping. We quantify these two extrinsic contributions and thereby +determine the intrinsic damping. The comparison of the intrinsic damping to +multiple theoretical calculations yields good qualitative and quantitative +agreement in most cases. Furthermore, the values of the damping obtained in +this study are in good agreement with a wide range of published experimental +and theoretical values. Additionally, we find a compositional dependence of the +spin mixing conductance.",1701.02475v1 +2004-12-18,Fluctuations of the Magnetization in Thin Films due to Conduction Electrons,"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 motion which differs from the the Gilbert equation and is extended to the +non-adiabatic regime. To lowest order in the exchange interaction and in the +limit where the Gilbert equation applies, we show that the damping term is +enhanced due to interfacial effects but it also shows oscillations as a +function of the film thickness. The noise calculation is however carried out to +all orders in the exchange coupling constant. The ellipticity of the precession +of the magnetization is taken into account. The damping is shown to have a +Gilbert form only in the adiabatic limit while the relaxation time becomes +strongly dependent on the geometry of the thin film. It is also shown that the +induced noise characteristic of sd-exchange is inherently colored in character +and depends on the symmetry of the Hamiltonian of the magnetization in the +film. We show that the sd-noise can be represented in terms of an external +stochastic field which is white only in the adiabatic regime. The temperature +is also renormalized by the spin accumulation in the system. For large +intra-atomic exchange interactions, the Gilbert-Brown equation is no longer +valid.",0412510v1 +2014-07-02,Spin Waves in Ferromagnetic Insulators Coupled via a Normal Metal,"Herein, we study the spin-wave dispersion and dissipation in a ferromagnetic +insulator--normal metal--ferromagnetic insulator system. Long-range dynamic +coupling because of spin pumping and spin transfer lead to collective magnetic +excitations in the two thin-film ferromagnets. In addition, the dynamic dipolar +field contributes to the interlayer coupling. By solving the +Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert-Slonczewski equation for macrospin excitations and the +exchange-dipole volume as well as surface spin waves, we compute the effect of +the dynamic coupling on the resonance frequencies and linewidths of the various +modes. The long-wavelength modes may couple acoustically or optically. In the +absence of spin-memory loss in the normal metal, the spin-pumping-induced +Gilbert damping enhancement of the acoustic mode vanishes, whereas the optical +mode acquires a significant Gilbert damping enhancement, comparable to that of +a system attached to a perfect spin sink. The dynamic coupling is reduced for +short-wavelength spin waves, and there is no synchronization. For intermediate +wavelengths, the coupling can be increased by the dipolar field such that the +modes in the two ferromagnetic insulators can couple despite possible small +frequency asymmetries. The surface waves induced by an easy-axis surface +anisotropy exhibit much greater Gilbert damping enhancement. These modes also +may acoustically or optically couple, but they are unaffected by thickness +asymmetries.",1407.0635v1 +2015-05-15,Reliable Damping of Free Surface Waves in Numerical Simulations,"This paper generalizes existing approaches for free-surface wave damping via +momentum sinks for flow simulations based on the Navier-Stokes equations. It is +shown in 2D flow simulations that, to obtain reliable wave damping, the +coefficients in the damping functions must be adjusted to the wave parameters. +A scaling law for selecting these damping coefficients is presented, which +enables similarity of the damping in model- and full-scale. The influence of +the thickness of the damping layer, the wave steepness, the mesh fineness and +the choice of the damping coefficients are examined. An efficient approach for +estimating the optimal damping setup is presented. Results of 3D ship +resistance computations show that the scaling laws apply to such simulations as +well, so the damping coefficients should be adjusted for every simulation to +ensure convergence of the solution in both model and full scale. Finally, +practical recommendations for the setup of reliable damping in flow simulations +with regular and irregular free surface waves are given.",1505.04087v2 +2010-12-20,Global attractors for the one dimensional wave equation with displacement dependent damping,"We study the long-time behavior of solutions of the one dimensional wave +equation with nonlinear damping coefficient. We prove that if the damping +coefficient function is strictly positive near the origin then this equation +possesses a global attractor.",1012.4455v1 +2009-04-21,Tensor damping in metallic magnetic multilayers,"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 that the spin-pumping-induced dynamic coupling between FM layers modifies +the linearized Gilbert equations in a way that replaces the scalar Gilbert +damping constant with a nonlocal matrix of Cartesian damping tensors. The +latter are shown to be methodically calculable from a matrix algebra solution +of the Valet-Fert transport equations. As an example, explicit analytical +results are obtained for a 5-layer (spin-valve) of form NM/FM/NM'/FM/NM. +Comparisons with earlier well known results of Tserkovnyak et al. for the +related 3-layer FM/NM/FM indicate that the latter inadvertently hid the tensor +character of the damping, and instead singled out the diagonal element of the +local damping tensor along the axis normal to the plane of the two +magnetization vectors. For spin-valve devices of technological interest, the +influence of the tensor components of the damping on thermal noise or +spin-torque critical currents are strongly weighted by the relative magnitude +of the elements of the nonlocal, anisotropic stiffness-field tensor-matrix, and +for in-plane magnetized spin-valves are generally more sensitive to the +in-plane element of the damping tensor.",0904.3150v2 +2023-12-20,An effective field theory of damped ferromagnetic systems,"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 naturally arises as the simplest leading-order symmetry-consistent +non-conservative contribution within the in-in framework. The EFT is easily +generalized to scenarios with anisotropy and inhomogeneity. In particular, we +find the classic Landau-Lifshitz damping term emerges when isotropy is broken +by a constant external background field. This provides a first principle +explanation for distinguishing the two types of damping dynamics that were +originally constructed phenomenologically. Furthermore, the EFT framework could +also incorporate intrinsic anisotropy of the material in a straightforward way +using the spurion method. For systems with inhomogeneity such as nontrivial +spin textures, we find that the leading order derivative correction yields the +generalized Gilbert damping equations that were found in condensed matter +literature. This shows that the EFT approach enables us to derive the form of +higher-derivative-order corrections in a systematic way. Lastly, using the +phonon-magnon coupling deduced in the magnetoelastic EFT, we are able to make a +prediction for the generic form of the phononic contribution to the damping +equation.",2312.13093v1 +2015-10-07,"Tunable damping, saturation magnetization, and exchange stiffness of half-Heusler NiMnSb thin films","The half-metallic half-Heusler alloy NiMnSb is a promising candidate for +applications in spintronic devices due to its low magnetic damping and its rich +anisotropies. Here we use ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) measurements and +calculations from first principles to investigate how the composition of the +epitaxially grown NiMnSb influences the magnetodynamic properties of saturation +magnetization $M_S$, Gilbert damping $\alpha$, and exchange stiffness $A$. +$M_S$ and $A$ are shown to have a maximum for stoichiometric composition, while +the Gilbert damping is minimum. We find excellent quantitative agreement +between theory and experiment for $M_S$ and $\alpha$. The calculated $A$ shows +the same trend as the experimental data, but has a larger magnitude. +Additionally to the unique in-plane anisotropy of the material, these +tunabilities of the magnetodynamic properties can be taken advantage of when +employing NiMnSb films in magnonic devices.",1510.01894v1 +2017-08-07,"Chiral damping, chiral gyromagnetism and current-induced torques in textured one-dimensional Rashba ferromagnets","We investigate Gilbert damping, spectroscopic gyromagnetic ratio and +current-induced torques in the one-dimensional Rashba model with an additional +noncollinear magnetic exchange field. We find that the Gilbert damping differs +between left-handed and right-handed N\'eel-type magnetic domain walls due to +the combination of spatial inversion asymmetry and spin-orbit interaction +(SOI), consistent with recent experimental observations of chiral damping. +Additionally, we find that also the spectroscopic $g$ factor differs between +left-handed and right-handed N\'eel-type domain walls, which we call chiral +gyromagnetism. We also investigate the gyromagnetic ratio in the Rashba model +with collinear magnetization, where we find that scattering corrections to the +$g$ factor vanish for zero SOI, become important for finite spin-orbit +coupling, and tend to stabilize the gyromagnetic ratio close to its +nonrelativistic value.",1708.02008v2 +2017-09-14,Intrinsic Damping Phenomena from Quantum to Classical Magnets:An ab-initio Study of Gilbert Damping in Pt/Co Bilayer,"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 calculations of classical Gilbert damping ($\alpha_{GD}$), we +demonstrate that $\alpha_{GD}$ in the quantum case does not diverge in the +ballistic regime due to the finite size of the total spin, $S$. In the limit of +$S\rightarrow\infty$ we show that the formalism recovers the torque correlation +expression for $\alpha_{GD}$ which we decompose into spin-pumping and +spin-orbital torque correlation contributions. The formalism is generalized to +take into account a self consistently determined dephasing mechanism which +preserves the conservation laws and allows the investigation of the effect of +disorder. The dependence of $\alpha_{GD}$ on Pt thickness and disorder strength +is calculated and the spin diffusion length of Pt and spin mixing conductance +of the bilayer are determined and compared with experiments.",1709.04911v2 +2018-04-02,Anisotropic Gilbert damping in perovskite La$_{0.7}$Sr$_{0.3}$MnO$_{3}$ thin film,"The viscous Gilbert damping parameter governing magnetization dynamics is of +primary importance for various spintronics applications. Although, the damping +constant is believed to be anisotropic by theories. It is commonly treated as a +scalar due to lack of experimental evidence. Here, we present an elaborate +angle dependent broadband ferromagnetic resonance study of high quality +epitaxial La$_{0.7}$Sr$_{0.3}$MnO$_{3}$ films. Extrinsic effects are suppressed +and we show convincing evidence of anisotropic damping with twofold symmetry at +room temperature. The observed anisotropic relaxation is attributed to the +magnetization orientation dependence of the band structure. In addition, we +demonstrated that such anisotropy can be tailored by manipulating the stain. +This work provides new insights to understand the mechanism of magnetization +relaxation.",1804.00554v1 +2006-02-03,Microscopic description of Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert type equation based on the s-d model,"A Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert type equation has been derived by using s-d model +in which the s-electron system is regarded as an environment coupled weakly +with the localized spins. Based on the irreducible linear response theory, we +show that the relaxation function of the s-electron spin leads to the Gilbert +type damping term which corresponds to the retarded resistance function in the +generalized Langevin equation. The Ohmic form of the Gilbert term stems from +the fact that the imaginary part of the response function (spin susceptibility) +of the itinerant electron system is proportional to the frequency (omega) in +the low omega region. It is confirmed that the Caldeira-Leggett theory based on +the path-integral approach gives the same result.",0602075v2 +2014-09-08,Self-similar solutions of the one-dimensional Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation,"We consider the one-dimensional Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation, a +model describing the dynamics for the spin in ferromagnetic materials. Our main +aim is the analytical study of the bi-parametric family of self-similar +solutions of this model. In the presence of damping, our construction provides +a family of global solutions of the LLG equation which are associated to a +discontinuous initial data of infinite (total) energy, and which are smooth and +have finite energy for all positive times. Special emphasis will be given to +the behaviour of this family of solutions with respect to the Gilbert damping +parameter. + We would like to emphasize that our analysis also includes the study of +self-similar solutions of the Schr\""odinger map and the heat flow for harmonic +maps into the 2-sphere as special cases. In particular, the results presented +here recover some of the previously known results in the setting of the +1d-Schr\""odinger map equation.",1409.2340v1 +2017-09-12,Green's function formalism for spin transport in metal-insulator-metal heterostructures,"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 focus on Gilbert damping. As an application, we consider +ballistic spin transport by exchange magnons in a metal-insulator-metal +heterostructure with and without disorder. For the former case, we show that +the interplay between disorder and Gilbert damping leads to spin current +fluctuations. For the case without disorder, we obtain the dependence of the +transmitted spin current on the thickness of the ferromagnet. Moreover, we show +that the results of the Green's function formalism agree in the clean and +continuum limit with those obtained from the linearized stochastic +Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. The developed Green's function formalism is a +natural starting point for numerical studies of magnon transport in +heterostructures that contain normal metals and magnetic insulators.",1709.03775v1 +2019-09-06,The interplay of large two-magnon ferromagnetic resonance linewidths and low Gilbert damping in Heusler thin films,"We report on broadband ferromagnetic resonance linewidth measurements +performed on epitaxial Heusler thin films. A large and anisotropic two-magnon +scattering linewidth broadening is observed for measurements with the +magnetization lying in the film plane, while linewidth measurements with the +magnetization saturated perpendicular to the sample plane reveal low Gilbert +damping constants of $(1.5\pm0.1)\times 10^{-3}$, $(1.8\pm0.2)\times 10^{-3}$, +and $<8\times 10^{-4}$ for Co$_2$MnSi/MgO, Co$_2$MnAl/MgO, and Co$_2$FeAl/MgO, +respectively. The in-plane measurements are fit to a model combining Gilbert +and two-magnon scattering contributions to the linewidth, revealing a +characteristic disorder lengthscale of 10-100 nm.",1909.02738v2 +2010-02-17,Measurement of Gilbert damping parameters in nanoscale CPP-GMR spin-valves,"In-situ, device level measurement of thermal mag-noise spectral linewidths in +60nm diameter CPP-GMR spin-valve stacks of IrMn/ref/Cu/free, with reference and +free layer of similar CoFe/CoFeGe alloy, are used to simultaneously determine +the intrinsic Gilbert damping for both magnetic layers. It is shown that +careful alignment at a ""magic-angle"" between free and reference layer static +equilibrium magnetization can allow direct measurement of the broadband +intrinsic thermal spectra in the virtual absence of spin-torque effects which +otherwise grossly distort the spectral line shapes and require linewidth +extrapolations to zero current (which are nonetheless also shown to agree well +with the direct method). The experimental magic-angle spectra are shown to be +in good qualitative and quantitative agreement with both macrospin calculations +and micromagnetic eigenmode analysis. Despite similar composition and +thickness, it is repeatedly found that the IrMn exchange pinned reference layer +has ten times larger intrinsic Gilbert damping (alpha ~ 0.1) than that of the +free-layer (alpha ~ 0.01). It is argued that the large reference layer damping +results from strong, off -resonant coupling to to lossy modes of an IrMn/ref +couple, rather than commonly invoked two-magnon processes.",1002.3295v1 +2018-09-28,Isotropic non-local Gilbert damping driven by spin currents in epitaxial Pd/Fe/MgO(001) films,"Although both theoretical predications and experimental observations +demonstrated that the damping factor is anisotropic at +ferromagnet/semiconductor interface with robust interfacial spin-orbit +coupling, it is not well understood whether non-local Gilbert damping driven by +spin currents in heavy metal/ferromagnetic metal (HM/FM) bilayers is +anisotropic or not. Here, we investigated the in-plane angular- and frequency- +dependence of magnetic relaxation of epitaxial Fe/MgO(001) films with different +capping layers of Pd and Cu. After disentangling the parasitic contributions, +such as two-magnon scattering (TMS), mosaicity, and field-dragging effect, we +unambiguously observed that both local and non-local Gilbert damping are +isotropic in Fe(001) plane, suggesting that the pure spin currents absorption +is independent of Fe magnetization orientation in the epitaxial Pd/Fe +heterostructure. First principles calculation reveals that the effective spin +mixing conductance of Pd/Fe interface is nearly invariant for different +magnetization directions in good agreement with the experimental observations. +These results offer a valuable insight into the transmission and absorption of +pure spin currents, and facilitate us to utilize next-generation spintronic +devices.",1809.11020v1 +2004-09-24,Minimal field requirement in precessional magnetization switching,"We investigate the minimal field strength in precessional magnetization +switching using the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in under-critically damped +systems. It is shown that precessional switching occurs when localized +trajectories in phase space become unlocalized upon application of field +pulses. By studying the evolution of the phase space, we obtain the analytical +expression of the critical switching field in the limit of small damping for a +magnetic object with biaxial anisotropy. We also calculate the switching times +for the zero damping situation. We show that applying field along the medium +axis is good for both small field and fast switching times.",0409671v1 +2011-11-04,Tunable magnetization relaxation in spin valves,"In spin values the damping parameters of the free layer are determined +non-locally by the entire magnetic configuration. In a dual spin valve +structure that comprises a free layer embedded between two pinned layers, the +spin pumping mechanism, in combination with the angular momentum conservation, +renders the tensor-like damping parameters tunable by varying the interfacial +and diffusive properties. Simulations based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert +phenomenology for a macrospin model are performed with the tensor-like damping +and the relaxation time of the free layer magnetization is found to be largely +dependent on while tunable through the magnetic configuration of the +source-drain magnetization.",1111.1219v1 +2012-05-25,Spin wave amplification driven by heat flow: the role of damping and exchange interaction,"In this article we report on micromagnetic simulations performed on a +permalloy nanostructure in presence of a uniform thermal gradient. Our +numerical simulations show that heat flow is an effective mean to compensate +the damping, and that the gradients at which spin-wave amplification is +observed are experimentally accessible. In particular, we have studied the role +of the Gilbert damping parameter on spin-wave amplification.",1205.5650v2 +2015-04-23,Magnetization damping in noncollinear spin valves with antiferromagnetic interlayer couplings,"We study the magnetic damping in the simplest of synthetic antiferromagnets, +i.e. antiferromagnetically exchange-coupled spin valves in which applied +magnetic fields tune the magnetic configuration to become noncollinear. We +formulate the dynamic exchange of spin currents in a noncollinear texture based +on the spindiffusion theory with quantum mechanical boundary conditions at the +ferrromagnet|normal-metal interfaces and derive the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert +equations coupled by the static interlayer non-local and the dynamic exchange +interactions. We predict non-collinearity-induced additional damping that can +be sensitively modulated by an applied magnetic field. The theoretical results +compare favorably with published experiments.",1504.06042v1 +2016-05-05,Theory of magnon motive force in chiral ferromagnets,"We predict that magnon motive force can lead to temperature dependent, +nonlinear chiral damping in both conducting and insulating ferromagnets. We +estimate that this damping can significantly influence the motion of skyrmions +and domain walls at finite temperatures. We also find that in systems with low +Gilbert damping moving chiral magnetic textures and resulting magnon motive +forces can induce large spin and energy currents in the transverse direction.",1605.01694v2 +2018-04-19,Damping of magnetization dynamics by phonon pumping,"We theoretically investigate pumping of phonons by the dynamics of a magnetic +film into a non-magnetic contact. The enhanced damping due to the loss of +energy and angular momentum shows interference patterns as a function of +resonance frequency and magnetic film thickness that cannot be described by +viscous (""Gilbert"") damping. The phonon pumping depends on magnetization +direction as well as geometrical and material parameters and is observable, +e.g., in thin films of yttrium iron garnet on a thick dielectric substrate.",1804.07080v2 +2024-01-22,Damping-Enhanced Magnon Transmission,"The inevitable Gilbert damping in magnetization dynamics is usually regarded +as detrimental to spin transport. Here we demonstrate in a +ferromagnetic-insulator--normal-metal heterostructure that the strong momentum +dependence and chirality of the eddy-current-induced damping causes also +beneficial scattering properties. Here we show that a potential barrier that +reflects magnon wave packets becomes transparent in the presence of a metallic +cap layer, but only in one direction. We formulate the unidirectional +transmission in terms of a generalized group velocity with an imaginary +component and the magnon skin effect. This trick to turn presumably harmful +dissipation into useful functionalities should be useful for future quantum +magnonic devices.",2401.12022v1 +2013-05-03,"Co2 FeAl thin films grown on MgO substrates: Correlation between static, dynamic and structural properties","Co2FeAl (CFA) thin films with thickness varying from 10 nm to 115 nm have +been deposited on MgO(001) substrates by magnetron sputtering and then capped +by Ta or Cr layer. X-rays diffraction (XRD) revealed that the cubic $[001]$ CFA +axis is normal to the substrate and that all the CFA films exhibit full +epitaxial growth. The chemical order varies from the $B2$ phase to the $A2$ +phase when decreasing the thickness. Magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) and +vibrating sample magnetometer measurements show that, depending on the field +orientation, one or two-step switchings occur. Moreover, the films present a +quadratic MOKE signal increasing with the CFA thickness, due to the increasing +chemical order. Ferromagnetic resonance, MOKE transverse bias initial inverse +susceptibility and torque (TBIIST) measurements reveal that the in-plane +anisotropy results from the superposition of a uniaxial and of a fourfold +symmetry term. The fourfold anisotropy is in accord with the crystal structure +of the samples and is correlated to the biaxial strain and to the chemical +order present in the films. In addition, a large negative perpendicular +uniaxial anisotropy is observed. Frequency and angular dependences of the FMR +linewidth show two magnon scattering and mosaicity contributions, which depend +on the CFA thickness. A Gilbert damping coefficient as low as 0.0011 is found.",1305.0714v1 +2016-08-29,Sub-micrometer yttrium iron garnet LPE films with low ferromagnetic resonance losses,"Using liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) technique (111) yttrium iron garnet (YIG) +films with thicknesses of ~100 nm and surface roughnesses as low as 0.3 nm have +been grown as a basic material for spin-wave propagation experiments in +microstructured waveguides. The continuously strained films exhibit nearly +perfect crystallinity without significant mosaicity and with effective lattice +misfits of delta a(perpendicular)/a(substrate) ~10-4 and below. The +film/substrate interface is extremely sharp without broad interdiffusion layer +formation. All LPE films exhibit a nearly bulk-like saturation magnetization of +(1800+-20) Gs and an `easy cone' anisotropy type with extremely small in-plane +coercive fields <0.2 Oe. There is a rather weak in-plane magnetic anisotropy +with a pronounced six-fold symmetry observed for saturation field <1.5 Oe. No +significant out-of-plane anisotropy is observed, but a weak dependence of the +effective magnetization on the lattice misfit is detected. The narrowest +ferromagnetic resonance linewidth is determined to be 1.4 Oe @ 6.5 GHz which is +the lowest value reported so far for YIG films of 100 nm thicknesses and below. +The Gilbert damping coefficient for investigated LPE films is estimated to be +close to 1 x 10-4.",1608.08043v1 +2019-09-12,Spin Transport in Thick Insulating Antiferromagnetic Films,"Spin transport of magnonic excitations in uniaxial insulating +antiferromagnets (AFs) is investigated. In linear response to spin biasing and +a temperature gradient, the spin transport properties of +normal-metal--insulating antiferromagnet--normal-metal heterostructures are +calculated. We focus on the thick-film regime, where the AF is thicker than the +magnon equilibration length. This regime allows the use of a drift-diffusion +approach, which is opposed to the thin-film limit considered by Bender {\it et +al.} 2017, where a stochastic approach is justified. We obtain the temperature- +and thickness-dependence of the structural spin Seebeck coefficient +$\mathcal{S}$ and magnon conductance $\mathcal{G}$. In their evaluation we +incorporate effects from field- and temperature-dependent spin conserving +inter-magnon scattering processes. Furthermore, the interfacial spin transport +is studied by evaluating the contact magnon conductances in a microscopic model +that accounts for the sub-lattice symmetry breaking at the interface. We find +that while inter-magnon scattering does slightly suppress the spin Seebeck +effect, transport is generally unaffected, with the relevant spin decay length +being determined by non-magnon-conserving processes such as Gilbert damping. In +addition, we find that while the structural spin conductance may be enhanced +near the spin flip transition, it does not diverge due to spin impedance at the +normal metal|magnet interfaces.",1909.05881v2 +2020-09-22,Magnon-mediated spin currents in Tm3Fe5O12/Pt with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy,"The control of pure spin currents carried by magnons in magnetic insulator +(MI) garnet films with a robust perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) is of +great interest to spintronic technology as they can be used to carry, transport +and process information. Garnet films with PMA present labyrinth domain +magnetic structures that enrich the magnetization dynamics, and could be +employed in more efficient wave-based logic and memory computing devices. In +MI/NM bilayers, where NM being a normal metal providing a strong spin-orbit +coupling, the PMA benefits the spin-orbit torque (SOT) driven magnetization's +switching by lowering the needed current and rendering the process faster, +crucial for developing magnetic random-access memories (SOT-MRAM). In this +work, we investigated the magnetic anisotropies in thulium iron garnet (TIG) +films with PMA via ferromagnetic resonance measurements, followed by the +excitation and detection of magnon-mediated pure spin currents in TIG/Pt driven +by microwaves and heat currents. TIG films presented a Gilbert damping constant +{\alpha}~0.01, with resonance fields above 3.5 kOe and half linewidths broader +than 60 Oe, at 300 K and 9.5 GHz. The spin-to-charge current conversion through +TIG/Pt was observed as a micro-voltage generated at the edges of the Pt film. +The obtained spin Seebeck coefficient was 0.54 {\mu}V/K, confirming also the +high interfacial spin transparency.",2009.10299v1 +2021-03-08,Emerging magnetic nutation,"Nutation has been recognized as of great significance for spintronics; but +justifying its presence has proven to be a hard problem. In this paper we show +that nutation can be understood as emerging from a systematic expansion of a +kernel that describes the history of the interaction of a magnetic moment with +a bath of colored noise. The parameter of the expansion is the ratio of the +colored noise timescale to the precession period. In the process we obtain the +Gilbert damping from the same expansion. We recover the known results, when the +coefficients of the two terms are proportional to one another, in the white +noise limit; and show how colored noise leads to situations where this simple +relation breaks down, but what replaces it can be understood by the appropriate +generalization of the fluctuation--dissipation theorem. Numerical simulations +of the stochastic equations support the analytic approach. In particular we +find that the equilibration time is about an order of magnitude longer than the +timescale set by the colored noise for a wide range of values of the latter and +we can identify the presence of nutation in the non-uniform way the +magnetization approaches equilibrium.",2103.04787v3 +2008-11-04,Amplitude-Phase Coupling in a Spin-Torque Nano-Oscillator,"The spin-torque nano-oscillator in the presence of thermal fluctuation is +described by the normal form of the Hopf bifurcation with an additive white +noise. By the application of the reduction method, the amplitude-phase coupling +factor, which has a significant effect on the power spectrum of the spin-torque +nano-oscillator, is calculated from the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert-Slonczewski +equation with the nonlinear Gilbert damping. The amplitude-phase coupling +factor exhibits a large variation depending on in-plane anisotropy under the +practical external fields.",0811.0425v1 +2013-09-28,High-efficiency GHz frequency doubling without power threshold in thin-film Ni81Fe19,"We demonstrate efficient second-harmonic generation at moderate input power +for thin film Ni81Fe19 undergoing ferromagnetic resonance (FMR). Powers of the +generated second-harmonic are shown to be quadratic in input power, with an +upconversion ratio three orders of magnitude higher than that demonstrated in +ferrite. The second harmonic signal generated exhibits a significantly lower +linewidth than that predicted by low-power Gilbert damping, and is excited +without threshold. Results are in good agreement with an analytic, approximate +expansion of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation.",1309.7483v1 +2016-06-30,Skyrmion dynamics in a chiral magnet driven by periodically varying spin currents,"In this work, we investigated the spin dynamics in a slab of chiral magnets +induced by an alternating (ac) spin current. Periodic trajectories of the +skyrmion in real space are discovered under the ac current as a result of the +Magnus and viscous forces, which originate from the Gilbert damping, the spin +transfer torque, and the $ \beta $-nonadiabatic torque effects. The results are +obtained by numerically solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation and can be +explained by the Thiele equation characterizing the skyrmion core motion.",1606.09326v2 +2018-03-19,Dynamics of a Magnetic Needle Magnetometer: Sensitivity to Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert Damping,"An analysis of a single-domain magnetic needle in the presence of an external +magnetic field ${\bf B}$ is carried out with the aim of achieving a high +precision magnetometer. We determine the uncertainty $\Delta B$ of such a +device due to Gilbert dissipation and the associated internal magnetic field +fluctuations that gives rise to diffusion of the magnetic needle axis direction +${\bf n}$ and the needle orbital angular momentum. The levitation of the +magnetic needle in a magnetic trap and its stability are also analyzed.",1803.10064v2 +2020-08-27,Nutation Resonance in Ferromagnets,"The inertial dynamics of magnetization in a ferromagnet is investigated +theoretically. The analytically derived dynamic response upon microwave +excitation shows two peaks: ferromagnetic and nutation resonances. The exact +analytical expressions of frequency and linewidth of the magnetic nutation +resonance are deduced from the frequency dependent susceptibility determined by +the inertial Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. The study shows that the +dependence of nutation linewidth on the Gilbert precession damping has a +minimum, which becomes more expressive with increase of the applied magnetic +field.",2008.12221v3 +2009-08-05,Persistence effects in deterministic diffusion,"In systems which exhibit deterministic diffusion, the gross parameter +dependence of the diffusion coefficient can often be understood in terms of +random walk models. Provided the decay of correlations is fast enough, one can +ignore memory effects and approximate the diffusion coefficient according to +dimensional arguments. By successively including the effects of one and two +steps of memory on this approximation, we examine the effects of +``persistence'' on the diffusion coefficients of extended two-dimensional +billiard tables and show how to properly account for these effects, using walks +in which a particle undergoes jumps in different directions with probabilities +that depend on where they came from.",0908.0600v1 +2009-08-10,Diffusion coefficients for multi-step persistent random walks on lattices,"We calculate the diffusion coefficients of persistent random walks on +lattices, where the direction of a walker at a given step depends on the memory +of a certain number of previous steps. In particular, we describe a simple +method which enables us to obtain explicit expressions for the diffusion +coefficients of walks with two-step memory on different classes of one-, two- +and higher-dimensional lattices.",0908.1271v1 +2007-02-01,Adiabatic Domain Wall Motion and Landau-Lifshitz Damping,"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 dissipative magnetization dynamics. In this paper, we argue that +(as in the past) experiment cannot distinguish the two, but that +Landau-Lifshitz damping nevertheless provides the most physically sensible +interpretation of the equation of motion. From this perspective, (i) adiabatic +spin-transfer torque dominates the dynamics with small corrections from +non-adiabatic effects; (ii) the damping always decreases the magnetic free +energy, and (iii) microscopic calculations of damping become consistent with +general statistical and thermodynamic considerations.",0702020v3 +2009-04-09,Evaluating the locality of intrinsic precession damping in transition metals,"The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert damping parameter is typically assumed to be a +local quantity, independent of magnetic configuration. To test the validity of +this assumption we calculate the precession damping rate of small amplitude +non-uniform mode magnons in iron, cobalt, and nickel. At scattering rates +expected near and above room temperature, little change in the damping rate is +found as the magnon wavelength is decreased from infinity to a length shorter +than features probed in recent experiments. This result indicates that +non-local effects due to the presence of weakly non-uniform modes, expected in +real devices, should not appreciably affect the dynamic response of the element +at typical operating temperatures. Conversely, at scattering rates expected in +very pure samples around cryogenic temperatures, non-local effects result in an +order of magnitude decrease in damping rates for magnons with wavelengths +commensurate with domain wall widths. While this low temperature result is +likely of little practical importance, it provides an experimentally testable +prediction of the non-local contribution of the spin-orbit torque-correlation +model of precession damping. None of these results exhibit strong dependence on +the magnon propagation direction.",0904.1455v1 +2018-02-15,Damping's effect on the magnetodynamics of spin Hall nano-oscillators,"We study the impact of spin wave damping ($\alpha$) on the auto-oscillation +properties of nano-constriction based spin Hall nano-oscillators (SHNOs). The +SHNOs are based on a 5 nm Pt layer interfaced to a 5 nm +Py$_{100-x-y}$Pt$_{x}$Ag$_{y}$ magnetic layer, where the Pt and Ag contents are +co-varied to keep the saturation magnetization constant (within 10 %), while +$\alpha$ varies close to a factor of three. We systematically investigate the +influence of the Gilbert damping on the magnetodynamics of these SHNOs by means +of electrical microwave measurements. Under the condition of a constant field, +the threshold current scales with the damping in the magnetic layer. The +threshold current as a function of field shows a parabolic-like behavior, which +we attribute to the evolution of the spatial profile of the auto-oscillation +mode. The signal linewidth is smaller for the high-damping materials in low +magnetic fields, although the lowest observed linewidth was measured for the +alloy with least damping.",1802.05548v1 +2004-05-02,Spin Dynamics and Multiple Reflections in Ferromagnetic Film in Contact with Normal Metal Layers,"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 using a spin-dependent potential with quantum well in the +ferromagnetic region. Owing to multiple reflections in the well, the excess +Gilbert damping and the gyromagnetic ratio exhibit quantum oscillations as a +function of the thickness of the ferromagnetic film. The wavelength of the +oscillations is given by the depth of the quantum well. For iron film imbedded +between gold layers, the amplitude of the oscillations of the Gilbert damping +is in an order of magnitude agreement with the damping observed by Urban et al. +[Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 217204 (2001)]. The results are compared with the linear +response theory of Mills [Phys. Rev. B 68, 0144419 (2003)].",0405020v1 +2004-06-18,Spin pumping and magnetization dynamics in ferromagnet-Luttinger liquid junctions,"We study spin transport between a ferromagnet with time-dependent +magnetization and a conducting carbon nanotube or quantum wire, modeled as a +Luttinger liquid. The precession of the magnetization vector of the ferromagnet +due for instance to an outside applied magnetic field causes spin pumping into +an adjacent conductor. Conversely, the spin injection causes increased +magnetization damping in the ferromagnet. We find that, if the conductor +adjacent to the ferromagnet is a Luttinger liquid, spin pumping/damping is +suppressed by interactions, and the suppression has clear Luttinger liquid +power law temperature dependence. We apply our result to a few particular +setups. First we study the effective Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) coupled +equations for the magnetization vectors of the two ferromagnets in a FM-LL-FM +junction. Also, we compute the Gilbert damping for a FM-LL and a FM-LL-metal +junction.",0406437v1 +2004-10-30,Dynamics of Domain Wall in a Biaxial Ferromagnet With Spin-torque,"The dynamics of the domain wall (DW) in a biaxial ferromagnet interacting +with a spin-polarized current are described by sine-gordon (SG) equation +coupled with Gilbert damping term in this paper. Within our frame-work of this +model, we obtain a threshold of the current in the motion of a single DW with +the perturbation theory on kink soliton solution to the corresponding +ferromagnetic system, and the threshold is shown to be dependent on the Gilbert +damping term. Also, the motion properties of the DW are discussed for the zero- +and nonzero-damping cases, which shows that our theory to describe the dynamics +of the DW are self-consistent.",0411005v3 +2005-10-31,Time-Resolved Spin Torque Switching and Enhanced Damping in Py/Cu/Py Spin-Valve Nanopillars,"We report time-resolved measurements of current-induced reversal of a free +magnetic layer in Py/Cu/Py elliptical nanopillars at temperatures T = 4.2 K to +160 K. Comparison of the data to Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert macrospin simulations +of the free layer switching yields numerical values for the spin torque and the +Gilbert damping parameters as functions of T. The damping is strongly +T-dependent, which we attribute to the antiferromagnetic pinning behavior of a +thin permalloy oxide layer around the perimeter of the free layer. This +adventitious antiferromagnetic pinning layer can have a major impact on spin +torque phenomena.",0510798v2 +2006-09-18,General Form of Magnetization Damping: Magnetization dynamics of a spin system evolving nonadiabatically and out of equilibrium,"Using an effective Hamiltonian including the Zeeman and internal +interactions, we describe the quantum theory of magnetization dynamics when the +spin system evolves non-adiabatically and out of equilibrium. The +Lewis-Riesenfeld dynamical invariant method is employed along with the +Liouville-von Neumann equation for the density matrix. We derive a dynamical +equation for magnetization defined with respect to the density operator with a +general form of magnetization damping that involves the non-equilibrium +contribution in addition to the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. Two special +cases of the radiation-spin interaction and the spin-spin exchange interaction +are considered. For the radiation-spin interaction, the damping term is shown +to be of the Gilbert type, while in the spin-spin exchange interaction case the +results depend on a coupled chain of correlation functions.",0609431v2 +2010-12-25,Screw-pitch effect and velocity oscillation of domain-wall in ferromagnetic nanowire driven by spin-polarized current,"We investigate the dynamics of domain wall in ferromagnetic nanowire with +spin-transfer torque. The critical current condition is obtained analytically. +Below the critical current, we get the static domain wall solution which shows +that the spin-polarized current can't drive domain wall moving continuously. In +this case, the spin-transfer torque plays both the anti-precession and +anti-damping roles, which counteracts not only the spin-precession driven by +the effective field but also Gilbert damping to the moment. Above the critical +value, the dynamics of domain wall exhibits the novel screw-pitch effect +characterized by the temporal oscillation of domain wall velocity and width, +respectively. Both the theoretical analysis and numerical simulation +demonstrate that this novel phenomenon arise from the conjunctive action of +Gilbert-damping and spin-transfer torque. We also find that the roles of +spin-transfer torque are entirely contrary for the cases of below and above the +critical current.",1012.5473v1 +2014-06-24,Interface enhancement of Gilbert damping from first-principles,"The enhancement of Gilbert damping observed for Ni80Fe20 (Py) films in +contact with the non-magnetic metals Cu, Pd, Ta and Pt, is quantitatively +reproduced using first-principles scattering theory. The ""spin-pumping"" theory +that qualitatively explains its dependence on the Py thickness is generalized +to include a number of factors known to be important for spin transport through +interfaces. Determining the parameters in this theory from first-principles +shows that interface spin-flipping makes an essential contribution to the +damping enhancement. Without it, a much shorter spin-flip diffusion length for +Pt would be needed than the value we calculate independently.",1406.6225v2 +2015-09-06,Study of spin dynamics and damping on the magnetic nanowire arrays with various nanowire widths,"We investigate the spin dynamics including Gilbert damping in the +ferromagnetic nanowire arrays. We have measured the ferromagnetic resonance of +ferromagnetic nanowire arrays using vector-network analyzer ferromagnetic +resonance (VNA-FMR) and analyzed the results with the micromagnetic +simulations. We find excellent agreement between the experimental VNA-FMR +spectra and micromagnetic simulations result for various applied magnetic +fields. We find that the demagnetization factor for longitudinal conditions, Nz +(Ny) increases (decreases) as decreasing the nanowire width in the +micromagnetic simulations. For the transverse magnetic field, Nz (Ny) increases +(decreases) as increasing the nanowire width. We also find that the Gilbert +damping constant increases from 0.018 to 0.051 as the increasing nanowire width +for the transverse case, while it is almost constant as 0.021 for the +longitudinal case.",1509.01807v1 +2016-03-25,Large spin pumping effect in antisymmetric precession of Ni$_{79}$Fe$_{21}$/Ru/Ni$_{79}$Fe$_{21}$,"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 resonances, where magnetization dynamics are excited +predominantly in one layer and the other layer acts as a spin sink. Here we +show that trilayer structures in which magnetizations are excited +simultaneously, antisymmetrically, show a spin-pumping effect roughly twice as +large. The antisymmetric (optical) mode of antiferromagnetically coupled +Ni$_{79}$Fe$_{21}$(8nm)/Ru/Ni$_{79}$Fe$_{21}$(8nm) trilayers shows a Gilbert +damping constant greater than that of the symmetric (acoustic) mode by an +amount as large as the intrinsic damping of Py ($\Delta +\alpha\simeq\textrm{0.006}$). The effect is shown equally in field-normal and +field-parallel to film plane geometries over 3-25 GHz. The results confirm a +prediction of the spin pumping model and have implications for the use of +synthetic antiferromagnets (SAF)-structures in GHz devices.",1603.07977v1 +2016-10-21,Spin transport and dynamics in all-oxide perovskite La$_{2/3}$Sr$_{1/3}$MnO$_3$/SrRuO$_3$ bilayers probed by ferromagnetic resonance,"Thin films of perovskite oxides offer the possibility of combining emerging +concepts of strongly correlated electron phenomena and spin current in magnetic +devices. However, spin transport and magnetization dynamics in these complex +oxide materials are not well understood. Here, we experimentally quantify spin +transport parameters and magnetization damping in epitaxial perovskite +ferromagnet/paramagnet bilayers of La$_{2/3}$Sr$_{1/3}$MnO$_3$/SrRuO$_3$ +(LSMO/SRO) by broadband ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy. From the SRO +thickness dependence of Gilbert damping, we estimate a short spin diffusion +length of $\lesssim$1 nm in SRO and an interfacial spin-mixing conductance +comparable to other ferromagnet/paramagnetic-metal bilayers. Moreover, we find +that anisotropic non-Gilbert damping due to two-magnon scattering also +increases with the addition of SRO. Our results demonstrate LSMO/SRO as a +spin-source/spin-sink system that may be a foundation for examining +spin-current transport in various perovskite heterostructures.",1610.06661v1 +2019-02-12,Ultra-low damping in lift-off structured yttrium iron garnet thin films,"We show that using maskless photolithography and the lift-off technique, +patterned yttrium iron garnet thin films possessing ultra-low Gilbert damping +can be accomplished. The films of 70 nm thickness were grown on (001)-oriented +gadolinium gallium garnet by means of pulsed laser deposition, and they exhibit +high crystalline quality, low surface roughness, and the effective +magnetization of 127 emu/cm3. The Gilbert damping parameter is as low as +5x10-4. The obtained structures have well-defined sharp edges which along with +good structural and magnetic film properties pave a path in the fabrication of +high-quality magnonic circuits and oxide-based spintronic devices.",1902.04605v1 +2019-02-20,CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB structures with orthogonal easy axes: perpendicular anisotropy and damping,"We report on the Gilbert damping parameter $\alpha$, the effective +magnetization $4\pi M_{eff}$, and the asymmetry of the $g$-factor in +bottom-CoFeB(0.93~nm)/MgO(0.90--1.25~nm)/CoFeB(1.31~nm)-top as-deposited +systems. + Magnetization of CoFeB layers exhibits a specific noncollinear configuration +with orthogonal easy axes and with $4\pi M_{eff}$ values of $+2.2$ kG and +$-2.3$ kG for the bottom and top layers, respectively. We show that $4\pi +M_{eff}$ depends on the asymmetry $g_\perp - g_\parallel$ of the $g$-factor +measured in the perpendicular and the in-plane directions revealing a highly +nonlinear relationship. In contrast, the Gilbert damping is practically the +same for both layers. Annealing of the films results in collinear easy axes +perpendicular to the plane for both layers. However, the linewidth is strongly +increased due to enhanced inhomogeneous broadening.",1902.07563v1 +2021-06-28,Stability of a Magnetically Levitated Nanomagnet in Vacuum: Effects of Gas and Magnetization Damping,"In the absence of dissipation a non-rotating magnetic nanoparticle can be +stably levitated in a static magnetic field as a consequence of the spin origin +of its magnetization. Here we study the effects of dissipation on the stability +of the system, considering the interaction with the background gas and the +intrinsic Gilbert damping of magnetization dynamics. At large applied magnetic +fields we identify magnetization switching induced by Gilbert damping as the +key limiting factor for stable levitation. At low applied magnetic fields and +for small particle dimensions magnetization switching is prevented due to the +strong coupling of rotation and magnetization dynamics, and the stability is +mainly limited by the gas-induced dissipation. In the latter case, high vacuum +should be sufficient to extend stable levitation over experimentally relevant +timescales. Our results demonstrate the possibility to experimentally observe +the phenomenon of quantum spin stabilized magnetic levitation.",2106.14858v3 +2021-10-31,Thermally induced all-optical ferromagnetic resonance in thin YIG films,"All-optical ferromagnetic resonance (AO-FMR) is a powerful tool for local +detection of micromagnetic parameters, such as magnetic anisotropy, Gilbert +damping or spin stiffness. In this work we demonstrate that the AO-FMR method +can be used in thin films of Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) if a metallic capping +layer (Au, Pt) is deposited on top of the film. Magnetization precession is +triggered by heating of the metallic layer with femtosecond laser pulses. The +heating modifies the magneto-crystalline anisotropy of the YIG film and shifts +the quasi-equilibrium orientation of magnetization, which results in +precessional magnetization dynamics. The laser-induced magnetization precession +corresponds to a uniform (Kittel) magnon mode, with the precession frequency +determined by the magnetic anisotropy of the material as well as the external +magnetic field, and the damping time set by a Gilbert damping parameter. The +AO-FMR method thus enables measuring local magnetic properties, with spatial +resolution given only by the laser spot size.",2111.00586v1 +2024-01-01,Calculation of Gilbert damping and magnetic moment of inertia using torque-torque correlation model within ab initio Wannier framework,"Magnetization dynamics in magnetic materials are well described by the +modified semiclassical Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation, which includes +the magnetic damping $\alpha$ and the magnetic moment of inertia $\mathrm{I}$ +tensors as key parameters. Both parameters are material-specific and physically +represent the time scales of damping of precession and nutation in +magnetization dynamics. $\alpha$ and $\mathrm{I}$ can be calculated quantum +mechanically within the framework of the torque-torque correlation model. The +quantities required for the calculation are torque matrix elements, the real +and imaginary parts of the Green's function and its derivatives. Here, we +calculate these parameters for the elemental magnets such as Fe, Co and Ni in +an ab initio framework using density functional theory and Wannier functions. +We also propose a method to calculate the torque matrix elements within the +Wannier framework. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the method by comparing +it with the experiments and the previous ab initio and empirical studies and +show its potential to improve our understanding of spin dynamics and to +facilitate the design of spintronic devices.",2401.00714v1 +2023-08-18,Large thermo-spin effects in Heusler alloy based spin-gapless semiconductor thin films,"Recently, Heusler alloys-based spin gapless semiconductors (SGSs) with high +Curie temperature (TC) and sizeable spin polarization have emerged as potential +candidates for tunable spintronic applications. We report comprehensive +investigation of the temperature dependent ANE and intrinsic longitudinal spin +Seebeck effect (LSSE) in CoFeCrGa thin films grown on MgO substrates. Our +findings show the anomalous Nernst coefficient for the MgO/CoFeCrGa (95 nm) +film is $\cong 1.86$ micro V/K at room temperature which is nearly two orders +of magnitude higher than that of the bulk polycrystalline sample of CoFeCrGa (= +0.018 micro V/K) but comparable to that of the magnetic Weyl semimetal Co2MnGa +thin film (2-3 micro V/K). Furthermore, the LSSE coefficient for our +MgO/CoFeCrGa(95nm)/Pt(5nm) heterostructure is $\cong 20.5$ $\mu$V/K/$\Omega$ at +room temperature which is twice larger than that of the half-metallic +ferromagnetic La$_{0.7}$Sr$_{0.3}$MnO$_3$ thin films ($\cong$ 20.5 +$\mu$V/K/$\Omega$). We show that both ANE and LSSE coefficients follow +identical temperature dependences and exhibit a maximum at $\cong$ 225 K which +is understood as the combined effects of inelastic magnon scatterings and +reduced magnon population at low temperatures. Our analyses not only indicate +that the extrinsic skew scattering is the dominating mechanism for ANE in these +films but also provide critical insights into the functional form of the +observed temperature dependent LSSE at low temperatures. Furthermore, by +employing radio frequency transverse susceptibility and broadband ferromagnetic +resonance in combination with the LSSE measurements, we establish a correlation +among the observed LSSE signal, magnetic anisotropy and Gilbert damping of the +CoFeCrGa thin films, which will be beneficial for fabricating tunable and +highly efficient Heusler alloys based spincaloritronic nanodevices.",2308.09843v1 +2017-12-20,Unifying ultrafast demagnetization and intrinsic Gilbert damping in Co/Ni bilayers with electronic relaxation near the Fermi surface,"The ability to controllably manipulate the laser-induced ultrafast magnetic +dynamics is a prerequisite for future high speed spintronic devices. The +optimization of devices requires the controllability of the ultrafast +demagnetization time, , and intrinsic Gilbert damping, . In previous attempts +to establish the relationship between and , the rare-earth doping of a +permalloy film with two different demagnetization mechanism is not a suitable +candidate. Here, we choose Co/Ni bilayers to investigate the relations between +and by means of time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect (TRMOKE) via +adjusting the thickness of the Ni layers, and obtain an approximately +proportional relation between these two parameters. The remarkable agreement +between TRMOKE experiment and the prediction of breathing Fermi-surface model +confirms that a large Elliott-Yafet spin-mixing parameter is relevant to the +strong spin-orbital coupling at the Co/Ni interface. More importantly, a +proportional relation between and in such metallic films or heterostructures +with electronic relaxation near Fermi surface suggests the local spin-flip +scattering domains the mechanism of ultrafast demagnetization, otherwise the +spin-current mechanism domains. It is an effective method to distinguish the +dominant contributions to ultrafast magnetic quenching in metallic +heterostructures by investigating both the ultrafast demagnetization time and +Gilbert damping simultaneously. Our work can open a novel avenue to manipulate +the magnitude and efficiency of Terahertz emission in metallic heterostructures +such as the perpendicular magnetic anisotropic Ta/Pt/Co/Ni/Pt/Ta multilayers, +and then it has an immediate implication of the design of high frequency +spintronic devices.",1712.07323v1 +2015-06-16,Fast energy decay for wave equations with variable damping coefficients in the 1-D half line,"We derive fast decay estimates of the total energy for wave equations with +localized variable damping coefficients, which are dealt with in the one +dimensional half line $(0,\infty)$. The variable damping coefficient vanishes +near the boundary $x = 0$, and is effective critically near spatial infinity $x += \infty$.",1506.04851v1 +2008-05-22,Intrinsic and non-local Gilbert damping in polycrystalline nickel studied by Ti:Sapphire laser fs spectroscopy,"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 is used to excite a polycrystalline nickel (Ni) film optically and +probe the dynamics afterwards. Different spin wave modes (the Kittel mode, +perpendicular standing spin-wave modes (PSSW) and dipolar spin-wave modes +(Damon-Eshbach modes)) are identified as the Ni thickness is increased. The +Kittel mode allows determination of the Gilbert damping parameter alpha +extracted from the magnetization relaxation time tau_alpha. The non-local +damping by spin currents emitted into a non-magnetic metallic layer of vanadium +(V), palladium (Pd) and the rare earth dysprosium (Dy) are studied for +wedge-shaped Ni films 1 nm-30 nm. The damping parameter increases from +alpha=0.045 intrinsic for nickel to alpha>0.10 for the heavy materials, such as +Pd and Dy, for the thinnest Ni films below 10 nm thickness. Also, for the +thinnest reference Ni film thickness, an increased magnetic damping below 4 nm +is observed. The origin of this increase is discussed within the framework of +line broadening by locally different precessional frequencies within the laser +spot region.",0805.3495v1 +2015-06-18,The absence of intraband scattering in a consistent theory of Gilbert damping in metallic ferromagnets,"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 to an intraband scattering term which is of third order +in the spin-orbit parameter xi This surprising result conflicts with recent +work by Costa and Muniz who study damping numerically by direct calculation of +the dynamical transverse spin susceptibility in the presence of spin-orbit +coupling. We resolve this inconsistency by following the Costa-Muniz approach +for a slightly simplified model where it is possible to calculate alpha +analytically. We show that to second order in the spin-orbit parameter xi one +retrieves the Kambersky result for alpha, but to higher order one does not +obtain any divergent intraband terms. The present work goes beyond that of +Costa and Muniz by pointing out the necessity of including the effect of +long-range Coulomb interaction in calculating damping for large xi. A direct +derivation of the Kambersky formula is given which shows clearly the +restriction of its validity to second order in xi so that no intraband +scattering terms appear. This restriction has an important effect on the +damping over a substantial range of impurity content and temperature. The +experimental situation is discussed.",1506.05622v2 +2020-02-07,"Engineering Co$_2$MnAl$_x$Si$_{1-x}$ Heusler compounds as a model system to correlate spin polarization, intrinsic Gilbert damping and ultrafast demagnetization","Engineering of magnetic materials for developing better spintronic +applications relies on the control of two key parameters: the spin polarization +and the Gilbert damping responsible for the spin angular momentum dissipation. +Both of them are expected to affect the ultrafast magnetization dynamics +occurring on the femtosecond time scale. Here, we use engineered Co2MnAlxSi1-x +Heusler compounds to adjust the degree of spin polarization P from 60 to 100% +and investigate how it correlates with the damping. We demonstrate +experimentally that the damping decreases when increasing the spin polarization +from 1.1 10-3 for Co2MnAl with 63% spin polarization to an ultra-low value of +4.10-4 for the half-metal magnet Co2MnSi. This allows us investigating the +relation between these two parameters and the ultrafast demagnetization time +characterizing the loss of magnetization occurring after femtosecond laser +pulse excitation. The demagnetization time is observed to be inversely +proportional to 1-P and as a consequence to the magnetic damping, which can be +attributed to the similarity of the spin angular momentum dissipation processes +responsible for these two effects. Altogether, our high quality Heusler +compounds allow controlling the band structure and therefore the channel for +spin angular momentum dissipation.",2002.02686v1 +2006-08-22,Simulation of stress-impedance effects in low magnetostrictive films,"A theoretical study of stress-impedance effect based on the solution of +Landau-Lifsitz-Gilbert equation has been carried out. The results show that +stress impedance effects depend largely on several extrinsic (external bias +field, external frequency) and intrinsic (orientation and magnitude of uniaxial +anisotropy, damping) parameters.",0608488v1 +2017-03-09,Material developments and domain wall based nanosecond-scale switching process in perpendicularly magnetized STT-MRAM cells,"We investigate the Gilbert damping and the magnetization switching of +perpendicularly magnetized FeCoB-based free layers embedded in tunnel junctions +adequate for spin-torque operated memories. We study the influence of the boron +content in MgO / FeCoB /Ta systems alloys on their Gilbert damping after +crystallization annealing. Increasing the boron content from 20 to 30\% +increases the crystallization temperature, thereby postponing the onset of +elemental diffusion within the free layer. This reduction of the interdiffusion +of the Ta atoms helps maintaining the Gilbert damping at a low level of 0.009 +without any penalty on the anisotropy and the magneto-transport properties up +to the 400$^\circ$C annealing required in CMOS back-end of line processing. In +addition, we show that dual MgO free layers of composition +MgO/FeCoB/Ta/FeCoB/MgO have a substantially lower damping than their +MgO/FeCoB/Ta counterparts, reaching damping parameters as low as 0.0039 for a 3 +\r{A} thick Tantalum spacer. This confirms that the dominant channel of damping +is the presence of Ta impurities within the FeCoB alloy. On optimized tunnel +junctions, we then study the duration of the switching events induced by +spin-transfer-torque. We focus on the sub-threshold thermally activated +switching in optimal applied field conditions. From the electrical signatures +of the switching, we infer that once the nucleation has occurred, the reversal +proceeds by a domain wall sweeping though the device at a few 10 m/s. The +smaller the device, the faster its switching. We present an analytical model to +account for our findings. The domain wall velocity is predicted to scale +linearly with the current for devices much larger than the wall width. The wall +velocity depends on the Bloch domain wall width, such that the devices with the +lowest exchange stiffness will be the ones that host the domain walls with the +slowest mobilities.",1703.03198v3 +2018-07-31,"Comparative study of methodologies to compute the intrinsic Gilbert damping: interrelations, validity and physical consequences","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 +calculating the intrinsic Gilbert damping within a unified theoretical +framework, mapping out their connections and the approximations required to +derive each formula. This scheme enables a direct comparison of the different +methods on the same footing and a consistent evaluation of their range of +validity. Most methods lead to very similar results for the bulk ferromagnets +Fe, Co and Ni, due to the low spin-orbit interaction strength and the absence +of the spin pumping mechanism. The effects of inhomogeneities, temperature and +other sources of finite electronic lifetime are often accounted for by an +empirical broadening of the electronic energy levels. We show that the +contribution to the damping introduced by this broadening is additive, and so +can be extracted by comparing the results of the calculations performed with +and without spin-orbit interaction. Starting from simulated ferromagnetic +resonance spectra based on the underlying electronic structure, we +unambiguously demonstrate that the damping parameter obtained within the +constant broadening approximation diverges for three-dimensional bulk magnets +in the clean limit, while it remains finite for monolayers. Our work puts into +perspective the several methods available to describe and compute the Gilbert +damping, building a solid foundation for future investigations of magnetic +relaxation effects in any kind of material.",1807.11808v3 +2002-07-30,Microscopic relaxation mechanisms and linear magnetization dynamics,"Linear magnetization dynamics in the presense of a thermal bath is analyzed +for two general classes of microscopic damping mechanisms. The resulting +stochastic differential equations are always in the form of a damped harmonic +oscillator driven by a thermal field. The damping term contains both the +interaction mechanisms and the symmetry of the magnetic system. Back +transformation from the oscillator coordinates to the magnetization variables +results in a macroscopic tensor form of damping that reflects the system +anisotropy. Scalar Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert damping term is valid only for +systems with axial symmetry. Analysis of FMR linewith measurements versus +frequency, temperature, and film thickness in NiFe films shows good agreement +with a combination of slow-relaxing impurity and magnon-electron confluence +processes.",0207721v1 +2014-05-09,Magnetization dynamics and damping due to electron-phonon scattering in a ferrimagnetic exchange model,"We present a microscopic calculation of magnetization damping for a magnetic +""toy model."" The magnetic system consists of itinerant carriers coupled +antiferromagnetically to a dispersionless band of localized spins, and the +magnetization damping is due to coupling of the itinerant carriers to a phonon +bath in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. Using a mean-field approximation +for the kinetic exchange model and assuming the spin-orbit coupling to be of +the Rashba form, we derive Boltzmann scattering integrals for the distributions +and spin coherences in the case of an antiferromagnetic exchange splitting, +including a careful analysis of the connection between lifetime broadening and +the magnetic gap. For the Elliott-Yafet type itinerant spin dynamics we extract +dephasing and magnetization times T_1 and T_2 from initial conditions +corresponding to a tilt of the magnetization vector, and draw a comparison to +phenomenological equations such as the Landau-Lifshitz or the Gilbert damping. +We also analyze magnetization precession and damping for this system including +an anisotropy field and find a carrier mediated dephasing of the localized spin +via the mean-field coupling.",1405.2347v1 +2015-11-13,Magnified Damping under Rashba Spin Orbit Coupling,"The spin orbit coupling spin torque consists of the field-like [REF: S.G. Tan +et al., arXiv:0705.3502, (2007).] and the damping-like terms [REF: H. +Kurebayashi et al., Nature Nanotechnology 9, 211 (2014).] that have been widely +studied for applications in magnetic memory. We focus, in this article, not on +the spin orbit effect producing the above spin torques, but on its magnifying +the damping constant of all field like spin torques. As first order precession +leads to second order damping, the Rashba constant is naturally co-opted, +producing a magnified field-like damping effect. The Landau-Liftshitz-Gilbert +equations are written separately for the local magnetization and the itinerant +spin, allowing the progression of magnetization to be self-consistently locked +to the spin.",1511.04227v1 +2022-05-13,Precession dynamics of a small magnet with non-Markovian damping: Theoretical proposal for an experiment to determine the correlation time,"Recent advances in experimental techniques have made it possible to +manipulate and measure the magnetization dynamics on the femtosecond time scale +which is the same order as the correlation time of the bath degrees of freedom. +In the equations of motion of magnetization, the correlation of the bath is +represented by the non-Markovian damping. For development of the science and +technologies based on the ultrafast magnetization dynamics it is important to +understand how the magnetization dynamics depend on the correlation time. It is +also important to determine the correlation time experimentally. Here we study +the precession dynamics of a small magnet with the non-Markovian damping. +Extending the theoretical analysis of Miyazaki and Seki [J. Chem. Phys. 108, +7052 (1998)] we obtain analytical expressions of the precession angular +velocity and the effective damping constant for any values of the correlation +time under assumption of small Gilbert damping constant. We also propose a +possible experiment for determination of the correlation time.",2205.06399v1 +2022-10-16,Magnetic damping anisotropy in the two-dimensional van der Waals material Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$ from first principles,"Magnetization relaxation in the two-dimensional itinerant ferromagnetic van +der Waals material Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$, below the Curie temperature, is +fundamentally important for applications to low-dimensional spintronics +devices. We use first-principles scattering theory to calculate the +temperature-dependent Gilbert damping for bulk and single-layer Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$. +The calculated damping frequency of bulk Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$ increases monotonically +with temperature because of the dominance of resistivitylike behavior. By +contrast, a very weak temperature dependence is found for the damping frequency +of a single layer, which is attributed to strong surface scattering in this +highly confined geometry. A systematic study of the damping anisotropy reveals +that orientational anisotropy is present in both bulk and single-layer +Fe3GeTe2. Rotational anisotropy is significant at low temperatures for both the +bulk and a single layer and is gradually diminished by temperature-induced +disorder. The rotational anisotropy can be significantly enhanced by up to 430% +in gated single-layer Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$.",2210.08429v1 +2016-09-26,Relativistic theory of spin relaxation mechanisms in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation of spin dynamics,"Starting from the Dirac-Kohn-Sham equation we derive the relativistic +equation of motion of spin angular momentum in a magnetic solid under an +external electromagnetic field. This equation of motion can be written in the +form of the well-known Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation for a harmonic external +magnetic field, and leads to a more general magnetization dynamics equation for +a general time-dependent magnetic field. In both cases with an electronic +spin-relaxation term which stems from the spin-orbit interaction. We thus +rigorously derive, from fundamental principles, a general expression for the +anisotropic damping tensor which is shown to contain an isotropic Gilbert +contribution as well as an anisotropic Ising-like and a chiral, +Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya-like contribution. The expression for the spin relaxation +tensor comprises furthermore both electronic interband and intraband +transitions. We also show that when the externally applied electromagnetic +field possesses spin angular momentum, this will lead to an optical spin torque +exerted on the spin moment.",1609.07901v1 +2023-08-07,$\textit{In situ}$ electric-field control of ferromagnetic resonance in the low-loss organic-based ferrimagnet V[TCNE]$_{x\sim 2}$,"We demonstrate indirect electric-field control of ferromagnetic resonance +(FMR) in devices that integrate the low-loss, molecule-based, room-temperature +ferrimagnet vanadium tetracyanoethylene (V[TCNE]$_{x \sim 2}$) mechanically +coupled to PMN-PT piezoelectric transducers. Upon straining the V[TCNE]$_x$ +films, the FMR frequency is tuned by more than 6 times the resonant linewidth +with no change in Gilbert damping for samples with $\alpha = 6.5 \times +10^{-5}$. We show this tuning effect is due to a strain-dependent magnetic +anisotropy in the films and find the magnetoelastic coefficient $|\lambda_S| +\sim (1 - 4.4)$ ppm, backed by theoretical predictions from DFT calculations +and magnetoelastic theory. Noting the rapidly expanding application space for +strain-tuned FMR, we define a new metric for magnetostrictive materials, +$\textit{magnetostrictive agility}$, given by the ratio of the magnetoelastic +coefficient to the FMR linewidth. This agility allows for a direct comparison +between magnetostrictive materials in terms of their comparative efficacy for +magnetoelectric applications requiring ultra-low loss magnetic resonance +modulated by strain. With this metric, we show V[TCNE]$_x$ is competitive with +other magnetostrictive materials including YIG and Terfenol-D. This combination +of ultra-narrow linewidth and magnetostriction in a system that can be directly +integrated into functional devices without requiring heterogeneous integration +in a thin-film geometry promises unprecedented functionality for electric-field +tuned microwave devices ranging from low-power, compact filters and circulators +to emerging applications in quantum information science and technology.",2308.03353v1 +2002-11-22,Nonlinear microscopic relaxation of uniform magnetization precession,"Dynamic relaxation for nonlinear magnetization excitation is analyzed. For +direct processes, such as magnon-electron scattering and two-magnon scattering, +the relaxation rate is determined from the linear case simply by utilizing the +magnetization oscillation frequency for nonlinear excitation. For an indirect +process, such as slow-relaxing impurities, the analysis gives an additional +relaxation term proportional to the excitation level. In all cases the +effective magnetization damping is increased compared to +Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert damping.",0211499v1 +2005-10-11,Non-damping magnetization oscillations in a single-domain ferromagnet,"Non-damped oscillations of the magnetization vector of a ferromagnetic system +subject to a spin polarized current and an external magnetic field are studied +theoretically by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. It is shown that +the frequency and amplitude of such oscillations can be controlled by means of +an applied magnetic field and a spin current. The possibility of injection of +the oscillating spin current into a non-magnetic system is also discussed.",0510280v1 +2007-03-27,Gauge Field Formulation of Adiabatic Spin Torques,"Previous calculation of spin torques for small-amplitude magnetization +dynamics around a uniformly magnetized state [J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. {\bf 75} +(2006) 113706] is extended here to the case of finite-amplitude dynamics. This +is achieved by introducing an `` adiabatic'' spin frame for conduction +electrons, and the associated SU(2) gauge field. In particular, the Gilbert +damping is shown to arise from the time variation of the spin-relaxation source +terms in this new frame, giving a new physical picture of the damping. The +present method will allow a `` first-principle'' derivation of spin torques +without any assumptions such as rotational symmetry in spin space.",0703705v1 +2008-05-09,"Spin dynamics in (III,Mn)V ferromagnetic semiconductors: the role of correlations","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 general theory that treats quantum fluctuations beyond the +Random Phase Approximation based on a correlation expansion of the Green's +function equations of motion. We calculate the spin susceptibility, spin--wave +excitation spectrum, and magnetization precession damping. We find that +correlations strongly affect the magnitude and carrier concentration dependence +of the spin stiffness and magnetization Gilbert damping.",0805.1320v2 +2010-01-16,Resonance Damping in Ferromagnets and Ferroelectrics,"The phenomenological equations of motion for the relaxation of ordered phases +of magnetized and polarized crystal phases can be developed in close analogy +with one another. For the case of magnetized systems, the driving magnetic +field intensity toward relaxation was developed by Gilbert. For the case of +polarized systems, the driving electric field intensity toward relaxation was +developed by Khalatnikov. The transport times for relaxation into thermal +equilibrium can be attributed to viscous sound wave damping via +magnetostriction for the magnetic case and electrostriction for the +polarization case.",1001.2845v1 +2016-05-15,Propagation of Thermally Induced Magnonic Spin Currents,"The propagation of magnons in temperature gradients is investigated within +the framework of an atomistic spin model with the stochastic +Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation as underlying equation of motion. We analyze +the magnon accumulation, the magnon temperature profile as well as the +propagation length of the excited magnons. The frequency distribution of the +generated magnons is investigated in order to derive an expression for the +influence of the anisotropy and the damping parameter on the magnon propagation +length. For soft ferromagnetic insulators with low damping a propagation length +in the range of some $\mu$m can be expected for exchange driven magnons.",1605.04543v1 +2021-03-05,Universal spin wave damping in magnetic Weyl semimetals,"We analyze the decay of spin waves into Stoner excitations in magnetic Weyl +semimetals. The lifetime of a mode is found to have a universal dependence on +its frequency and momentum, and on a few parameters that characterize the +relativistic Weyl spectrum. At the same time, Gilbert damping by Weyl electrons +is absent. The decay rate of spin waves is calculated perturbatively using the +s-d model of itinerant Weyl or Dirac electrons coupled to local moments. We +show that many details of the Weyl spectrum, such as the momentum-space +locations, dispersions and sizes of the Weyl Fermi pockets, can be deduced +indirectly by probing the spin waves of local moments using inelastic neutron +scattering.",2103.03885v1 +2023-02-17,Control of magnon-photon coupling by spin torque,"We demonstrate the influence of damping and field-like torques in the +magnon-photon coupling process by classically integrating the generalized +Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with RLC equation in which a phase correlation +between dynamic magnetization and microwave current through combined Amp\`ere +and Faraday effects are considered. We show that the gap between two hybridized +modes can be controlled in samples with damping parameter in the order of +$10^{-3}$ by changing the direction of the dc current density $J$ if a certain +threshold is reached. Our results suggest that an experimental realization of +the proposed magnon-photon coupling control mechanism is feasible in yttrium +iron garnet/Pt hybrid structures.",2302.08910v1 +2017-03-21,Using rf voltage induced ferromagnetic resonance to study the spin-wave density of states and the Gilbert damping in perpendicularly magnetized disks,"We study how the shape of the spinwave resonance lines in rf-voltage induced +FMR can be used to extract the spinwave density of states and the damping +within the precessing layer in nanoscale tunnel junctions that possess +perpendicular anisotropy. We work with a field applied along the easy axis to +preserve the uniaxial symmetry of the system. We describe the set-up to study +the susceptibility contributions of the spin waves in the field-frequency +space. We then identify the maximum device size above which the spinwaves can +no longer be studied in isolation as the linewidths of their responses make +them overlap. The rf-voltage induced signal is the sum of two voltages that +have comparable magnitudes: a first voltage that originates from the transverse +susceptibility and rectification by magnetoresistance and a second voltage that +arises from the non-linear longitudinal susceptibility and the resultant +time-averaged change of the micromagnetic configuration. The transverse and +longitudinal susceptibility signals have different dc bias dependences such +that they can be separated by measuring how the device rectifies the rf voltage +at different dc bias voltages. The transverse and longitudinal susceptibility +signals have different lineshapes; their joint studies can yield the Gilbert +damping of the free layer of the device with a degree of confidence that +compares well with standard FMR. Our method is illustrated on FeCoB-based free +layers in which the individual spin-waves can be sufficiently resolved only for +disk diameters below 200 nm. The resonance line shapes on devices with 90 nm +diameters are consistent with a Gilbert damping of 0.011. This damping of 0.011 +exceeds the value of 0.008 measured on the unpatterned films, which indicates +that device-level measurements are needed for a correct evaluation of +dissipation.",1703.07310v2 +2015-11-16,Determination of intrinsic damping of perpendicularly magnetized ultrathin films from time resolved precessional magnetization measurements,"Magnetization dynamics are strongly influenced by damping. An effective +damping constant {\alpha}eff is often determined experimentally from the +spectral linewidth of the free induction decay of the magnetization after the +system is excited to its non-equilibrium state. Such an {\alpha}eff, however, +reflects both intrinsic damping as well as inhomogeneous broadening. In this +paper we compare measurements of the magnetization dynamics in ultrathin +non-epitaxial films having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy using two +different techniques, time-resolved magneto optical Kerr effect (TRMOKE) and +hybrid optical-electrical ferromagnetic resonance (OFMR). By using an external +magnetic field that is applied at very small angles to the film plane in the +TRMOKE studies, we develop an explicit closed-form analytical expression for +the TRMOKE spectral linewidth and show how this can be used to reliably extract +the intrinsic Gilbert damping constant. The damping constant determined in this +way is in excellent agreement with that determined from the OFMR method on the +same samples. Our studies indicate that the asymptotic high-field approach that +is often used in the TRMOKE method to distinguish the intrinsic damping from +the effective damping may result in significant error, because such high +external magnetic fields are required to make this approach valid that they are +out of reach. The error becomes larger the lower is the intrinsic damping +constant, and thus may account for the anomalously high damping constants that +are often reported in TRMOKE studies. In conventional ferromagnetic resonance +(FMR) studies, inhomogeneous contributions can be readily distinguished from +intrinsic damping contributions from the magnetic field dependence of the FMR +linewidth. Using the analogous approach, we show how reliable values of the +intrinsic damping can be extracted from TRMOKE.",1511.04802v1 +2019-08-19,Spectral determinant for the damped wave equation on an interval,"We evaluate the spectral determinant for the damped wave equation on an +interval of length $T$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions, proving that it does +not depend on the damping. This is achieved by analysing the square of the +damped wave operator using the general result by Burghelea, Friedlander, and +Kappeler on the determinant for a differential operator with matrix +coefficients.",1908.06862v1 +2020-10-12,Decays rates for Kelvin-Voigt damped wave equations II: the geometric control condition,"We study in this article decay rates for Kelvin-Voigt damped wave equations +under a geometric control condition. We prove that when the damping coefficient +is sufficiently smooth ($C^1$ vanishing nicely) we show that exponential decay +follows from geometric control conditions (see~\cite{BuCh, Te12} for similar +results under stronger assumptions on the damping function).",2010.05614v2 +2019-06-21,Unique determination of the damping coefficient in the wave equation using point source and receiver data,"In this article, we consider the inverse problems of determining the damping +coefficient appearing in the wave equation. We prove the unique determination +of the coefficient from the data coming from a single coincident +source-receiver pair. Since our problem is under-determined, so some extra +assumption on the coefficient is required to prove the uniqueness.",1906.08987v1 +2002-07-19,Gilbert Damping in Magnetic Multilayers,"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 +ferromagnet-normal metal interface. For a slow precession, the enhancement of +Gilbert damping constant is proportional to the square of the s-d exchange +constant times the zero-frequency limit of the frequency derivative of the +local dynamic spin susceptibility of the normal metal at the interface. +Electron-electron interactions increase the relaxation rate by the Stoner +factor squared. We attribute the large anisotropic enhancements of the +relaxation rate observed recently in multilayers containing palladium to this +mechanism. For free electrons, the present theory compares favorably with +recent spin-pumping result of Tserkovnyak et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. +\textbf{88},117601 (2002)].",0207471v1 +2002-08-06,Spin pumping and magnetization dynamics in metallic multilayers,"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 adjacent nonmagnetic layers. This spin transfer affects the +magnetization dynamics similar to the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert phenomenology. +The additional Gilbert damping is significant for small ferromagnets, when the +nonmagnetic layers efficiently relax the injected spins, but the effect is +reduced when a spin accumulation build-up in the normal metal opposes the spin +pumping. The damping enhancement is governed by (and, in turn, can be used to +measure) the mixing conductance or spin-torque parameter of the +ferromagnet--normal-metal interface. Our theoretical findings are confirmed by +agreement with recent experiments in a variety of multilayer systems.",0208091v2 +2005-12-29,Current-induced magnetization dynamics in disordered itinerant ferromagnets,"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 equation, we derive Gilbert damping and spin-transfer torques entering +the Landau-Lifshitz equation to linear order in frequency and wave vector. +Gilbert damping and a current-driven dissipative torque scale identically and +compete, with the result that a steady current-driven domain-wall motion is +insensitive to spin dephasing in the limit of weak ferromagnetism. A uniform +magnetization is found to be much more stable against spin torques in the +itinerant than in the \textit{s}-\textit{d} model for ferromagnetism. A dynamic +spin-transfer torque reminiscent of the spin pumping in multilayers is +identified and shown to govern the current-induced domain-wall distortion.",0512715v4 +2006-11-22,Magnetization damping in a local-density approximation,"The linear response of itinerant transition metal ferromagnets to transverse +magnetic fields is studied in a self-consistent adiabatic local-density +approximation. The susceptibility is calculated from a microscopic Hamiltonian, +including spin-conserving impurities, impurity induced spin-orbit interaction +and magnetic impurities using the Keldysh formalism. The Gilbert damping +constant in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation is identified, parametrized by +an effective transverse spin dephasing rate, and is found to be inversely +proportional to the exchange splitting. Our result justify the phenomenological +treatment of transverse spin dephasing in the study of current-induced +magnetization dynamics in weak, itinerant ferromagnets by Tserkovnyak +\textit{et al.}. We show that neglect of gradient corrections in the +quasiclassical transport equations leads to incorrect results when the exchange +potential becomes of the order of the Fermi energy.",0611588v1 +2007-08-03,Strong spin-orbit induced Gilbert damping and g-shift in iron-platinum nanoparticles,"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 +anisotropy and superparamagnetic fluctuations. Upon decreasing temperature, the +LLG damping $\alpha(T)$ and a negative g-shift, g(T)-g_0, increase proportional +to the particle magnetic moments determined from the Langevin analysis of the +magnetization isotherms. These novel features are explained by the scattering +of the $q \to 0$ magnon from an electron-hole (e/h) pair mediated by the +spin-orbit coupling, while the sd-exchange can be ruled out. The large +saturation values, $\alpha(0)=0.76$ and $g(0)/g_0-1=-0.37$, indicate the +dominance of an overdamped 1 meV e/h-pair which seems to originate from the +discrete levels of the itinerant electrons in the d_p=3 nm nanoparticles.",0708.0463v1 +2008-05-01,Chaotic Spin Dynamics of a Long Nanomagnet Driven by a Current,"We study the spin dynamics of a long nanomagnet driven by an electrical +current. In the case of only DC current, the spin dynamics has a sophisticated +bifurcation diagram of attractors. One type of attractors is a weak chaos. On +the other hand, in the case of only AC current, the spin dynamics has a rather +simple bifurcation diagram of attractors. That is, for small Gilbert damping, +when the AC current is below a critical value, the attractor is a limit cycle; +above the critical value, the attractor is chaotic (turbulent). For normal +Gilbert damping, the attractor is always a limit cycle in the physically +interesting range of the AC current. We also developed a Melnikov integral +theory for a theoretical prediction on the occurrence of chaos. Our Melnikov +prediction seems performing quite well in the DC case. In the AC case, our +Melnikov prediction seems predicting transient chaos. The sustained chaotic +attractor seems to have extra support from parametric resonance leading to a +turbulent state.",0805.0147v1 +2010-10-08,"A unified first-principles study of Gilbert damping, spin-flip diffusion and resistivity in transition metal alloys","Using a formulation of first-principles scattering theory that includes +disorder and spin-orbit coupling on an equal footing, we calculate the +resistivity $\rho$, spin flip diffusion length $l_{sf}$ and the Gilbert damping +parameter $\alpha$ for Ni$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$ substitutional alloys as a function of +$x$. For the technologically important Ni$_{80}$Fe$_{20}$ alloy, permalloy, we +calculate values of $\rho = 3.5 \pm 0.15$ $\mu$Ohm-cm, $l_{sf}=5.5 \pm 0.3$ nm, +and $\alpha= 0.0046 \pm 0.0001$ compared to experimental low-temperature values +in the range $4.2-4.8$ $\mu$Ohm-cm for $\rho$, $5.0-6.0$ nm for $l_{sf}$, and +$0.004-0.013$ for $\alpha$ indicating that the theoretical formalism captures +the most important contributions to these parameters.",1010.1626v3 +2011-02-22,Ab-initio calculation of the Gilbert damping parameter via linear response formalism,"A Kubo-Greenwood-like equation for the Gilbert damping parameter $\alpha$ is +presented that is based on the linear response formalism. Its implementation +using the fully relativistic Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker (KKR) band structure method +in combination with Coherent Potential Approximation (CPA) alloy theory allows +it to be applied to a wide range of situations. This is demonstrated with +results obtained for the bcc alloy system Fe$_x$Co$_{1-x}$ as well as for a +series of alloys of permalloy with 5d transition metals. + To account for the thermal displacements of atoms as a scattering mechanism, +an alloy-analogy model is introduced. The corresponding calculations for Ni +correctly describe the rapid change of $\alpha$ when small amounts of +substitutional Cu are introduced.",1102.4551v1 +2012-08-07,Observation of Coherent Helimagnons and Gilbert damping in an Itinerant Magnet,"We study the magnetic excitations of itinerant helimagnets by applying +time-resolved optical spectroscopy to Fe0.8Co0.2Si. Optically excited +oscillations of the magnetization in the helical state are found to disperse to +lower frequency as the applied magnetic field is increased; the fingerprint of +collective modes unique to helimagnets, known as helimagnons. The use of +time-resolved spectroscopy allows us to address the fundamental magnetic +relaxation processes by directly measuring the Gilbert damping, revealing the +versatility of spin dynamics in chiral magnets. (*These authors contributed +equally to this work)",1208.1462v1 +2012-11-02,Dynamic Spin Injection into Chemical Vapor Deposited Graphene,"We demonstrate dynamic spin injection into chemical vapor deposition (CVD) +grown graphene by spin pumping from permalloy (Py) layers. Ferromagnetic +resonance measurements at room temperature reveal a strong enhancement of the +Gilbert damping at the Py/graphene interface, exceeding that observed in even +Py/platinum interfaces. Similar results are also shown on Co/graphene layers. +This enhancement in the Gilbert damping is understood as the consequence of +spin pumping at the interface driven by magnetization dynamics. Our +observations suggest a strong enhancement of spin-orbit coupling in CVD +graphene, in agreement with earlier spin valve measurements.",1211.0492v1 +2013-01-10,First-principles calculation of the Gilbert damping parameter via the linear response formalism with application to magnetic transition-metals and alloys,"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 +combination with the coherent potential approximation alloy theory. To account +for thermal displacements of atoms as a scattering mechanism, an alloy-analogy +model is introduced. This allows the determination of $\alpha$ for various +types of materials, such as elemental magnetic systems and ordered magnetic +compounds at finite temperature, as well as for disordered magnetic alloys at +$T = 0$ K and above. The effects of spin-orbit coupling, chemical and +temperature induced structural disorder are analyzed. Calculations have been +performed for the 3$d$ transition-metals bcc Fe, hcp Co, and fcc Ni, their +binary alloys bcc Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$, fcc Ni$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$, fcc +Ni$_{1-x}$Co$_x$ and bcc Fe$_{1-x}$V$_{x}$, and for 5d impurities in +transition-metal alloys. All results are in satisfying agreement with +experiment.",1301.2114v1 +2014-01-24,Wavenumber-dependent Gilbert damping in metallic ferromagnets,"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 leading to fieldlike and dampinglike torques on magnetization. Here we +show that three metallic ferromagnets possess an imaginary effective-field term +which mirrors the well-known real effective-field term associated with exchange +in spin waves. Using perpendicular standing spin wave resonance between 2-26 +GHz, we evaluate the magnitude of the finite-wavenumber ($k$) dependent Gilbert +damping $\alpha$ in three typical device ferromagnets, Ni$_{79}$Fe$_{21}$, Co, +and Co$_{40}$Fe$_{40}$B$_{20}$, and demonstrate for the first time the presence +of a $k^2$ term as $\Delta\alpha=\Delta\alpha_0+A_{k}\cdot k^2$ in all three +metals. We interpret the new term as the continuum analog of spin pumping, +predicted recently, and show that its magnitude, $A_{k}$=0.07-0.1 nm$^2$, is +consistent with transverse spin relaxation lengths as measured by conventional +(interlayer) spin pumping.",1401.6467v2 +2014-12-11,Deviation From the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in the Inertial regime of the Magnetization,"We investigate in details the inertial dynamics of a uniform magnetization in +the ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) context. Analytical predictions and numerical +simulations of the complete equations within the Inertial +Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (ILLG) model are presented. In addition to the usual +precession resonance, the inertial model gives a second resonance peak +associated to the nutation dynamics provided that the damping is not too large. +The analytical resolution of the equations of motion yields both the precession +and nutation angular frequencies. They are function of the inertial dynamics +characteristic time $\tau$, the dimensionless damping $\alpha$ and the static +magnetic field $H$. A scaling function with respect to $\alpha\tau\gamma H$ is +found for the nutation angular frequency, also valid for the precession angular +frequency when $\alpha\tau\gamma H\gg 1$. Beyond the direct measurement of the +nutation resonance peak, we show that the inertial dynamics of the +magnetization has measurable effects on both the width and the angular +frequency of the precession resonance peak when varying the applied static +field. These predictions could be used to experimentally identify the inertial +dynamics of the magnetization proposed in the ILLG model.",1412.3783v1 +2015-08-04,A Critical Analysis of the Feasibility of Pure Strain-Actuated Giant Magnetostrictive Nanoscale Memories,"Concepts for memories based on the manipulation of giant magnetostrictive +nanomagnets by stress pulses have garnered recent attention due to their +potential for ultra-low energy operation in the high storage density limit. +Here we discuss the feasibility of making such memories in light of the fact +that the Gilbert damping of such materials is typically quite high. We report +the results of numerical simulations for several classes of toggle precessional +and non-toggle dissipative magnetoelastic switching modes. Material candidates +for each of the several classes are analyzed and forms for the anisotropy +energy density and ranges of material parameters appropriate for each material +class are employed. Our study indicates that the Gilbert damping as well as the +anisotropy and demagnetization energies are all crucial for determining the +feasibility of magnetoelastic toggle-mode precessional switching schemes. The +roles of thermal stability and thermal fluctuations for stress-pulse switching +of giant magnetostrictive nanomagnets are also discussed in detail and are +shown to be important in the viability, design, and footprint of +magnetostrictive switching schemes.",1508.00629v2 +2015-12-16,Parity-time symmetry breaking in magnetic systems,"The understanding of out-of-equilibrium physics, especially dynamic +instabilities and dynamic phase transitions, is one of the major challenges of +contemporary science, spanning the broadest wealth of research areas that range +from quantum optics to living organisms. Focusing on nonequilibrium dynamics of +an open dissipative spin system, we introduce a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian +approach, in which non-Hermiticity reflects dissipation and deviation from +equilibrium. The imaginary part of the proposed spin Hamiltonian describes the +effects of Gilbert damping and applied Slonczewski spin-transfer torque. In the +classical limit, our approach reproduces Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert-Slonczewski +dynamics of a large macrospin. We reveal the spin-transfer torque-driven +parity-time symmetry-breaking phase transition corresponding to a transition +from precessional to exponentially damped spin dynamics. Micromagnetic +simulations for nanoscale ferromagnetic disks demonstrate the predicted effect. +Our findings can pave the way to a general quantitative description of +out-of-equilibrium phase transitions driven by spontaneous parity-time symmetry +breaking.",1512.05408v2 +2017-01-11,The Cauchy problem for the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in BMO and self-similar solutions,"We prove a global well-posedness result for the Landau-Lifshitz equation with +Gilbert damping provided that the BMO semi-norm of the initial data is small. +As a consequence, we deduce the existence of self-similar solutions in any +dimension. In the one-dimensional case, we characterize the self-similar +solutions associated with an initial data given by some ($\mathbb{S}^2$-valued) +step function and establish their stability. We also show the existence of +multiple solutions if the damping is strong enough. Our arguments rely on the +study of a dissipative quasilinear Schr\""odinger obtained via the stereographic +projection and techniques introduced by Koch and Tataru.",1701.03083v2 +2017-01-27,Structural scale $q-$derivative and the LLG-Equation in a scenario with fractionality,"In the present contribution, we study the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation +with two versions of structural derivatives recently proposed: the scale +$q-$derivative in the non-extensive statistical mechanics and the axiomatic +metric derivative, which presents Mittag-Leffler functions as eigenfunctions. +The use of structural derivatives aims to take into account long-range forces, +possible non-manifest or hidden interactions and the dimensionality of space. +Having this purpose in mind, we build up an evolution operator and a deformed +version of the LLG equation. Damping in the oscillations naturally show up +without an explicit Gilbert damping term.",1701.08076v2 +2018-10-17,Perpendicularly magnetized YIG films with small Gilbert damping constant and anomalous spin transport properties,"The Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) have +recently attracted a great deal of attention for spintronics applications. +Here, we report the induced PMA in the ultrathin YIG films grown on +(Gd2.6Ca0.4)(Ga4.1Mg0.25Zr0.65)O12 (SGGG) substrates by epitaxial strain +without preprocessing. Reciprocal space mapping shows that the films are +lattice-matched to the substrates without strain relaxation. Through +ferromagnetic resonance and polarized neutron reflectometry measurements, we +find that these YIG films have ultra-low Gilbert damping constant with a +magnetic dead layer as thin as about 0.3 nm at the YIG/SGGG interfaces. +Moreover, the transport behavior of the Pt/YIG/SGGG films reveals an +enhancement of spin mixing conductance and a large non-monotonic magnetic field +dependence of anomalous Hall effect as compared with the Pt/YIG/Gd3Ga5O12 (GGG) +films. The non-monotonic anomalous Hall signal is extracted in the temperature +range from 150 to 350 K, which has been ascribed to the possible non-collinear +magnetic order at the Pt/YIG interface induced by uniaxial strain.",1810.07384v2 +2019-03-07,Current-induced motion of twisted skyrmions,"Twisted skyrmions, whose helicity angles are different from that of Bloch +skyrmions and N\'eel skyrmions, have already been demonstrated in experiments +recently. In this work, we first contrast the magnetic structure and origin of +the twisted skyrmion with other three types of skyrmion including Bloch +skyrmion, N\'eel skyrmion and antiskyrmion. Following, we investigate the +dynamics of twisted skyrmions driven by the spin transfer toque (STT) and the +spin Hall effect (SHE) by using micromagnetic simulations. It is found that the +spin Hall angle of the twisted skyrmion is related to the dissipative force +tensor and the Gilbert damping both for the motions induced by the STT and the +SHE, especially for the SHE induced motion, the skyrmion Hall angle depends +substantially on the skyrmion helicity. At last, we demonstrate that the +trajectory of the twisted skyrmion can be controlled in a two dimensional plane +with a Gilbert damping gradient. Our results provide the understanding of +current-induced motion of twisted skyrmions, which may contribute to the +applications of skyrmion-based racetrack memories.",1903.02812v1 +2019-07-03,Anisotropy of spin-transfer torques and Gilbert damping induced by Rashba coupling,"Spin-transfer torques (STT), Gilbert damping (GD), and effective spin +renormalization (ESR) are investigated microscopically in a 2D Rashba +ferromagnet with spin-independent Gaussian white-noise disorder. Rashba +spin-orbit coupling induced anisotropy of these phenomena is thoroughly +analysed. For the case of two partly filled spin subbands, a remarkable +relation between the anisotropic STT, GD, and ESR is established. In the +absence of magnetic field and other torques on magnetization, this relation +corresponds to a current-induced motion of a magnetic texture with the +classical drift velocity of conduction electrons. Finally, we compute spin +susceptibility of the system and generalize the notion of spin-polarized +current.",1907.02041v3 +2021-11-05,Giant oscillatory Gilbert damping in superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junctions,"Interfaces between materials with differently ordered phases present unique +opportunities for exotic physical properties, especially the interplay between +ferromagnetism and superconductivity in the ferromagnet/superconductor +heterostructures. The investigation of zero- and pi-junctions has been of +particular interest for both fundamental physical science and emerging +technologies. Here, we report the experimental observation of giant oscillatory +Gilbert damping in the superconducting Nb/NiFe/Nb junctions with respect to the +NiFe thickness. This observation suggests an unconventional spin pumping and +relaxation via zero-energy Andreev bound states that exist only in the +Nb/NiFe/Nb pi-junctions, but not in the Nb/NiFe/Nb zero-junctions. Our findings +could be important for further exploring the exotic physical properties of +ferromagnet/superconductor heterostructures, and potential applications of +ferromagnet pi-junctions in quantum computing, such as half-quantum flux +qubits.",2111.03233v1 +2022-11-14,Magnetization Dynamics in Synthetic Antiferromagnets with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy,"Understanding the rich physics of magnetization dynamics in perpendicular +synthetic antiferromagnets (p-SAFs) is crucial for developing next-generation +spintronic devices. In this work, we systematically investigate the +magnetization dynamics in p-SAFs combining time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr +effect (TR-MOKE) measurements with theoretical modeling. These model analyses, +based on a Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert approach incorporating exchange coupling, +provide details about the magnetization dynamic characteristics including the +amplitudes, directions, and phases of the precession of p-SAFs under varying +magnetic fields. These model-predicted characteristics are in excellent +quantitative agreement with TR-MOKE measurements on an asymmetric p-SAF. We +further reveal the damping mechanisms of two procession modes co-existing in +the p-SAF and successfully identify individual contributions from different +sources, including Gilbert damping of each ferromagnetic layer, spin pumping, +and inhomogeneous broadening. Such a comprehensive understanding of +magnetization dynamics in p-SAFs, obtained by integrating high-fidelity TR-MOKE +measurements and theoretical modeling, can guide the design of p-SAF-based +architectures for spintronic applications.",2211.07744v2 +2023-05-17,Material Parameters for Faster Ballistic Switching of an In-plane Magnetized Nanomagnet,"High-speed magnetization switching of a nanomagnet is necessary for faster +information processing. The ballistic switching by a pulsed magnetic filed is a +promising candidate for the high-speed switching. It is known that the +switching speed of the ballistic switching can be increased by increasing the +magnitude of the pulsed magnetic field. However it is difficult to generate a +strong and short magnetic field pulse in a small device. Here we explore +another direction to achieve the high-speed ballistic switching by designing +material parameters such as anisotropy constant, saturation magnetization, and +the Gilbert damping constant. We perform the macrospin simulations for the +ballistic switching of in-plane magnetized nano magnets with varying material +parameters. The results are analyzed based on the switching dynamics on the +energy density contour. We show that the pulse width required for the ballistic +switching can be reduced by increasing the magnetic anisotropy constant or by +decreasing the saturation magnetization. We also show that there exists an +optimal value of the Gilbert damping constant that minimizes the pulse width +required for the ballistic switching.",2305.10111v1 +2023-05-23,Current-driven motion of magnetic topological defects in ferromagnetic superconductors,"Recent years have seen a number of instances where magnetism and +superconductivity intrinsically coexist. Our focus is on the case where +spin-triplet superconductivity arises out of ferromagnetism, and we make a +hydrodynamic analysis of the effect of a charge supercurrent on magnetic +topological defects like domain walls and merons. We find that the emergent +electromagnetic field that arises out of the superconducting order parameter +provides a description for not only the physical quantities such as the local +energy flux density and the interaction between current and defects but also +the energy dissipation through magnetic dynamics of the Gilbert damping, which +becomes more prominent compared to the normal state as superconductivity +attenuates the energy dissipation through the charge sector. In particular, we +reveal that the current-induced dynamics of domain walls and merons in the +presence of the Gilbert damping give rise to the nonsingular $4\pi$ and $2\pi$ +phase slips, respectively, revealing the intertwined dynamics of spin and +charge degrees of freedom in ferromagnetic superconductors.",2305.13564v1 +2023-07-03,Magnetic lump motion in saturated ferromagnetic films,"In this paper, we study in detail the nonlinear propagation of magnetic +soliton in a ferromagnetic film. The sample is magnetized to saturation by an +external field perpendicular to film plane. A new generalized (2+1)-dimensional +short-wave asymptotic model is derived. The bilinear-like forms of this +equation are constructed, and exact magnetic line soliton solutions are +exhibited. It is observed that a series of stable lumps can be generated by an +unstable magnetic soliton under Gaussian disturbance. Such magnetic lumps are +highly stable and can maintain their shapes and velocities during evolution or +collision. The interaction between lump and magnetic soliton, as well as +interaction between two lumps, are numerically investigated. We further discuss +the nonlinear motion of lumps in ferrites with Gilbert-damping and +inhomogeneous exchange effects. The results show that the Gilbert-damping +effects make the amplitude and velocity of the magnetic lump decay +exponentially during propagation. And the shock waves are generated from a lump +when quenching the strength of inhomogeneous exchange.",2307.00903v1 +2005-03-24,Fast magnetization switching of Stoner particles: A nonlinear dynamics picture,"The magnetization reversal of Stoner particles is investigated from the point +of view of nonlinear dynamics within the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert formulation. +The following results are obtained. 1) We clarify that the so-called +Stoner-Wohlfarth (SW) limit becomes exact when damping constant is infinitely +large. Under the limit, the magnetization moves along the steepest energy +descent path. The minimal switching field is the one at which there is only one +stable fixed point in the system. 2) For a given magnetic anisotropy, there is +a critical value for the damping constant, above which the minimal switching +field is the same as that of the SW-limit. 3) We illustrate how fixed points +and their basins change under a field along different directions. This change +explains well why a non-parallel field gives a smaller minimal switching field +and a short switching time. 4) The field of a ballistic magnetization reversal +should be along certain direction window in the presence of energy dissipation. +The width of the window depends on both of the damping constant and the +magnetic anisotropy. The upper and lower bounds of the direction window +increase with the damping constant. The window width oscillates with the +damping constant for a given magnetic anisotropy. It is zero for both zero and +infinite damping. Thus, the perpendicular field configuration widely employed +in the current experiments is not the best one since the damping constant in a +real system is far from zero.",0503594v1 +2022-03-03,Stability results of locally coupled wave equations with local Kelvin-Voigt damping: Cases when the supports of damping and coupling coefficients are disjoint,"In this paper, we study the direct/indirect stability of locally coupled wave +equations with local Kelvin-Voigt dampings/damping and by assuming that the +supports of the dampings and the coupling coefficients are disjoint. First, we +prove the well-posedness, strong stability, and polynomial stability for some +one dimensional coupled systems. Moreover, under some geometric control +condition, we prove the well-posedness and strong stability in the +multi-dimensional case.",2203.01632v1 +2020-09-16,Fast convex optimization via inertial dynamics combining viscous and Hessian-driven damping with time rescaling,"In a Hilbert setting, we develop fast methods for convex unconstrained +optimization. We rely on the asymptotic behavior of an inertial system +combining geometric damping with temporal scaling. The convex function to +minimize enters the dynamic via its gradient. The dynamic includes three +coefficients varying with time, one is a viscous damping coefficient, the +second is attached to the Hessian-driven damping, the third is a time scaling +coefficient. We study the convergence rate of the values under general +conditions involving the damping and the time scale coefficients. The obtained +results are based on a new Lyapunov analysis and they encompass known results +on the subject. We pay particular attention to the case of an asymptotically +vanishing viscous damping, which is directly related to the accelerated +gradient method of Nesterov. The Hessian-driven damping significantly reduces +the oscillatory aspects. As a main result, we obtain an exponential rate of +convergence of values without assuming the strong convexity of the objective +function. The temporal discretization of these dynamics opens the gate to a +large class of inertial optimization algorithms.",2009.07620v1 +2021-08-04,Nonlinear fluid damping of elastically mounted pitching wings in quiescent water,"We experimentally study the nonlinear fluid damping of a rigid but +elastically mounted pitching wing in the absence of a freestream flow. The +dynamics of the elastic mount are simulated using a cyber-physical system. We +perturb the wing and measure the fluid damping coefficient from damped +oscillations over a large range of pitching frequencies, pitching amplitudes, +pivot locations and sweep angles. A universal fluid damping scaling is proposed +to incorporate all these parameters. Flow fields obtained using particle image +velocimetry are analyzed to explain the nonlinear behaviors of the fluid +damping.",2108.02090v1 +2023-07-05,Optimal damping of vibrating systems: dependence on initial conditions,"Common criteria used for measuring performance of vibrating systems have one +thing in common: they do not depend on initial conditions of the system. In +some cases it is assumed that the system has zero initial conditions, or some +kind of averaging is used to get rid of initial conditions. The aim of this +paper is to initiate rigorous study of the dependence of vibrating systems on +initial conditions in the setting of optimal damping problems. We show that, +based on the type of initial conditions, especially on the ratio of potential +and kinetic energy of the initial conditions, the vibrating system will have +quite different behavior and correspondingly the optimal damping coefficients +will be quite different. More precisely, for single degree of freedom systems +and the initial conditions with mostly potential energy, the optimal damping +coefficient will be in the under-damped regime, while in the case of the +predominant kinetic energy the optimal damping coefficient will be in the +over-damped regime. In fact, in the case of pure kinetic initial energy, the +optimal damping coefficient is $+\infty$! Qualitatively, we found the same +behavior in multi degree of freedom systems with mass proportional damping. We +also introduce a new method for determining the optimal damping of vibrating +systems, which takes into account the peculiarities of initial conditions and +the fact that, although in theory these systems asymptotically approach +equilibrium and never reach it exactly, in nature and in experiments they +effectively reach equilibrium in some finite time.",2307.02352v2 +2021-06-25,Perturbed primal-dual dynamics with damping and time scaling coefficients for affine constrained convex optimization problems,"In Hilbert space, we propose a family of primal-dual dynamical system for +affine constrained convex optimization problem. Several damping coefficients, +time scaling coefficients, and perturbation terms are thus considered. By +constructing the energy functions, we investigate the convergence rates with +different choices of the damping coefficients and time scaling coefficients. +Our results extend the inertial dynamical approaches for unconstrained convex +optimization problems to affine constrained convex optimization problems.",2106.13702v1 +2020-06-24,Stability of a star-shaped network with local Kelvin-Voigt damping and non-smooth coefficient at interface,"In this paper, we study the stability problem of a star-shaped network of +elastic strings with a local Kelvin-Voigt damping. Under the assumption that +the damping coefficients have some singularities near the transmission point, +we prove that the semigroup corresponding to the system is polynomially stable +and the decay rates depends on the speed of the degeneracy. This result +improves the decay rate of the semigroup associated to the system on an earlier +result of Z.~Liu and Q.~Zhang in \cite{LZ} involving the wave equation with +local Kelvin-Voigt damping and non-smooth coefficient at interface.",2006.14949v1 +2008-05-07,Comparison Between Damping Coefficients of Measured Perforated Micromechanical Test Structures and Compact Models,"Measured damping coefficients of six different perforated micromechanical +test structures are compared with damping coefficients given by published +compact models. The motion of the perforated plates is almost translational, +the surface shape is rectangular, and the perforation is uniform validating the +assumptions made for compact models. In the structures, the perforation ratio +varies from 24% - 59%. The study of the structure shows that the +compressibility and inertia do not contribute to the damping at the frequencies +used (130kHz - 220kHz). The damping coefficients given by all four compact +models underestimate the measured damping coefficient by approximately 20%. The +reasons for this underestimation are discussed by studying the various flow +components in the models.",0805.0893v1 +2003-02-17,Magnetization dynamics with a spin-transfer torque,"The magnetization reversal and dynamics of a spin valve pillar, whose lateral +size is 64$\times$64 nm$^2$, are studied by using micromagnetic simulation in +the presence of spin transfer torque. Spin torques display both characteristics +of magnetic damping (or anti-damping) and of an effective magnetic field. For a +steady-state current, both M-I and M-H hysteresis loops show unique features, +including multiple jumps, unusual plateaus and precessional states. These +states originate from the competition between the energy dissipation due to +Gilbert damping and the energy accumulation due to the spin torque supplied by +the spin current. The magnetic energy oscillates as a function of time even for +a steady-state current. For a pulsed current, the minimum width and amplitude +of the spin torque for achieving current-driven magnetization reversal are +quantitatively determined. The spin torque also shows very interesting thermal +activation that is fundamentally different from an ordinary damping effect.",0302337v1 +2003-10-13,Domain wall mobility in nanowires: transverse versus vortex walls,"The motion of domain walls in ferromagnetic, cylindrical nanowires is +investigated numerically by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation for a +classical spin model in which energy contributions from exchange, crystalline +anisotropy, dipole-dipole interaction, and a driving magnetic field are +considered. Depending on the diameter, either transverse domain walls or vortex +walls are found. The transverse domain wall is observed for diameters smaller +than the exchange length of the given material. Here, the system behaves +effectively one-dimensional and the domain wall mobility agrees with a result +derived for a one-dimensional wall by Slonczewski. For low damping the domain +wall mobility decreases with decreasing damping constant. With increasing +diameter, a crossover to a vortex wall sets in which enhances the domain wall +mobility drastically. For a vortex wall the domain wall mobility is described +by the Walker-formula, with a domain wall width depending on the diameter of +the wire. The main difference is the dependence on damping: for a vortex wall +the domain wall mobility can be drastically increased for small values of the +damping constant up to a factor of $1/\alpha^2$.",0310277v1 +2013-10-29,Observational Study of Large Amplitude Longitudinal Oscillations in a Solar Filament,"On 20 August 2010 an energetic disturbance triggered damped large-amplitude +longitudinal (LAL) oscillations in almost an entire filament. In the present +work we analyze this periodic motion in the filament to characterize the +damping and restoring mechanism of the oscillation. Our method involves placing +slits along the axis of the filament at different angles with respect to the +spine of the filament, finding the angle at which the oscillation is clearest, +and fitting the resulting oscillation pattern to decaying sinusoidal and Bessel +functions. These functions represent the equations of motion of a pendulum +damped by mass accretion. With this method we determine the period and the +decaying time of the oscillation. Our preliminary results support the theory +presented by Luna and Karpen (2012) that the restoring force of LAL +oscillations is solar gravity in the tubes where the threads oscillate, and the +damping mechanism is the ongoing accumulation of mass onto the oscillating +threads. Following an earlier paper, we have determined the magnitude and +radius of curvature of the dipped magnetic flux tubes hosting a thread along +the filament, as well as the mass accretion rate of the filament threads, via +the fitted parameters.",1310.7657v1 +2014-12-08,Magnetization Dynamics driven by Non-equilibrium Spin-Orbit Coupled Electron Gas,"The dynamics of magnetization coupled to an electron gas via s-d exchange +interaction is investigated by using density matrix technique. Our theory shows +that non-equilibrium spin accumulation induces a spin torque and the electron +bath leads to a damping of the magnetization. For the two-dimensional +magnetization thin film coupled to the electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit +coupling, the result for the spin-orbit torques is consistent with the previous +semi-classical theory. Our theory predicts a damping of the magnetization, +which is absent in the semi-classical theory. The magnitude of the damping due +to the electron bath is comparable to the intrinsic Gilbert damping and may be +important in describing the magnetization dynamics of the system.",1412.2479v1 +2017-03-06,Damping dependence of spin-torque effects in thermally assisted magnetization reversal,"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 +magnetization reversal time of such a nanomagnet is then evaluated for wide +ranges of damping by using a method which generalizes the solution of the +so-called Kramers turnover problem for mechanical Brownian particles, thereby +bridging the very low damping and intermediate damping Kramers escape rates, to +the analogous magnetic turnover problem. The reversal time is then evaluated +for a nanomagnet with the free energy density given in the standard form of +superimposed easy-plane and in-plane easy-axis anisotropies with the dc bias +field along the easy axis.",1703.01879v5 +2017-05-09,Low spin wave damping in the insulating chiral magnet Cu$_{2}$OSeO$_{3}$,"Chiral magnets with topologically nontrivial spin order such as Skyrmions +have generated enormous interest in both fundamental and applied sciences. We +report broadband microwave spectroscopy performed on the insulating chiral +ferrimagnet Cu$_{2}$OSeO$_{3}$. For the damping of magnetization dynamics we +find a remarkably small Gilbert damping parameter of about $1\times10^{-4}$ at +5 K. This value is only a factor of 4 larger than the one reported for the best +insulating ferrimagnet yttrium iron garnet. We detect a series of sharp +resonances and attribute them to confined spin waves in the mm-sized samples. +Considering the small damping, insulating chiral magnets turn out to be +promising candidates when exploring non-collinear spin structures for high +frequency applications.",1705.03416v1 +2018-09-04,Separation of the two-magnon scattering contribution to damping for the determination of the spin mixing conductance,"We present angle dependent measurements of the damping properties of +epitaxial Fe layers with MgO, Al and Pt capping layers. Based on the +preferential distribution of lattice defects following the crystal symmetry, we +make use of a model of the defect density to separate the contribution of +two-magnon scattering to the damping from the isotropic contribution +originating in the spin pumping effect, the viscous Gilbert damping and the +magnetic proximity effect. The separation of the two-magnon contribution, which +depends strongly on the defect density, allows for the measurement of a value +of the effective spin mixing conductance which is closer to the value +exclusively due to spin pumping. The influence of the defect density for +bilayers systems due to the different capping layers and to the unavoidable +spread in defect density from sample to sample is thus removed. This shows the +potential of studying spin pumping phenomena in fully ordered systems in which +this separation is possible, contrary to polycrystalline or amorphous metallic +thin films.",1809.01042v1 +2011-11-27,A two-stage approach to relaxation in billiard systems of locally confined hard spheres,"We consider the three-dimensional dynamics of systems of many interacting +hard spheres, each individually confined to a dispersive environment, and show +that the macroscopic limit of such systems is characterized by a coefficient of +heat conduction whose value reduces to a dimensional formula in the limit of +vanishingly small rate of interaction. It is argued that this limit arises from +an effective loss of memory. Similarities with the diffusion of a tagged +particle in binary mixtures are emphasized.",1111.6272v1 +2014-03-16,Interpolating local constants in families,"We extend the theory of local constants to l-adic families of representations +of GL_n(F) where F is a p-adic field with l not equal to p. We construct zeta +integrals and gamma factors for representations coming from the conjectural +""local Langlands correspondence in families"" of Emerton-Helm, proving a +rationality result and functional equation. We also construct a universal gamma +factor with coefficients in the integral Bernstein center.",1403.3914v2 +2014-08-02,Machta-Zwanzig regime of anomalous diffusion in infinite-horizon billiards,"We study diffusion on a periodic billiard table with infinite horizon in the +limit of narrow corridors. An effective trapping mechanism emerges according to +which the process can be modeled by a L\'evy walk combining +exponentially-distributed trapping times with free propagation along paths +whose precise probabilities we compute. This description yields an +approximation of the mean squared displacement of infinite-horizon billiards in +terms of two transport coefficients which generalizes to this anomalous regime +the Machta-Zwanzig approximation of normal diffusion in finite-horizon +billiards [Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 1959 (1983)].",1408.0349v1 +2022-12-22,Novel Bottomonium Results,"We present the latest results from the use of the Backus-Gilbert method for +reconstructing the spectra of NRQCD bottomonium mesons using anisotropic +FASTSUM ensembles at non-zero temperature. We focus in particular on results +from the $\eta_b$, $\Upsilon$, $\chi_{b1}$ and $h_b$ generated from +Tikhonov-regularized Backus-Gilbert coefficient sets. We extend previous work +on the Laplace shifting theorem as a means of resolution improvement and +present new results from its use. We conclude with a discussion of the +limitations of the improvement routine and elucidate a connection with +Parisi-Lepage statistical scaling.",2212.12016v1 +2023-11-29,Bayesian interpretation of Backus-Gilbert methods,"The extraction of spectral densities from Euclidean correlators evaluated on +the lattice is an important problem, as these quantities encode physical +information on scattering amplitudes, finite-volume spectra, inclusive decay +rates, and transport coefficients. In this contribution, we show that the +Bayesian approach to this ""inverse"" problem, based on Gaussian processes, can +be reformulated in a way that yields a solution equivalent, up to statistical +uncertainties, to the one obtained in a Backus-Gilbert approach. After +discussing this equivalence, we point out its implications for a reliable +determination of spectral densities from lattice simulations.",2311.18125v1 +2006-02-09,Magnetization damping in polycrystalline Co ultra-thin films: Evidence for non-local effects,"The magnetic properties and magnetization dynamics of polycrystalline +ultra-thin Co layers were investigated using a broadband ferromagnetic +resonance (FMR) technique at room temperature. A variable thickness (1 nm $\leq +t \leq$ 10 nm) Co layer is sandwiched between 10 nm thick Cu layers (10 nm Cu| +t Co|10 nm Cu), while materials in contact with the Cu outer interfaces are +varied to determine their influence on the magnetization damping. The resonance +field and the linewidth were studied for in-plane magnetic fields in field +swept experiments at a fixed frequency, from 4 to 25 GHz. The Co layers have a +lower magnetization density than the bulk, and an interface contribution to the +magnetic anisotropy normal to the film plane. The Gilbert damping, as +determined from the frequency dependence of the linewidth, increases with +decreasing Co layer thickness for films with outer Pt layers. This enhancement +is not observed in structures without Pt layers. The result can be understood +in terms of a non-local contribution to the damping due to spin pumping from Co +through the Cu layer and spin relaxation in Pt layers. Pt layers just 1.5 nm +thick are found to be sufficient to enhance the damping and thus act as +efficient ""spin-sinks"". In structures with Pt outer layers, this non-local +contribution to the damping becomes predominant when the Co layer is thinner +than 4 nm.",0602243v2 +2020-04-09,Magnetic Damping in Epitaxial Fe Alloyed with Vanadium and Aluminum,"To develop low-moment, low-damping metallic ferromagnets for power-efficient +spintronic devices, it is crucial to understand how magnetic relaxation is +impacted by the addition of nonmagnetic elements. Here, we compare magnetic +relaxation in epitaxial Fe films alloyed with light nonmagnetic elements of V +and Al. FeV alloys exhibit lower intrinsic damping compared to pure Fe, reduced +by nearly a factor of 2, whereas damping in FeAl alloys increases with Al +content. Our experimental and computational results indicate that reducing the +density of states at the Fermi level, rather than the average atomic number, +has a more significant impact in lowering damping in Fe alloyed with light +elements. Moreover, FeV is confirmed to exhibit an intrinsic Gilbert damping +parameter of $\simeq$0.001, among the lowest ever reported for ferromagnetic +metals.",2004.04840v3 +2016-05-17,Simultaneous Identification of Damping Coefficient and Initial Value in PDEs from boundary measurement,"In this paper, the simultaneous identification of damping or anti-damping +coefficient and initial value for some PDEs is considered. An identification +algorithm is proposed based on the fact that the output of system happens to be +decomposed into a product of an exponential function and a periodic function. +The former contains information of the damping coefficient, while the latter +does not. The convergence and error analysis are also developed. Three +examples, namely an anti-stable wave equation with boundary anti-damping, the +Schr\""odinger equation with internal anti-damping, and two connected strings +with middle joint anti-damping, are investigated and demonstrated by numerical +simulations to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.",1605.05063v1 +2020-03-13,Anharmonic phonon damping enhances the $T_c$ of BCS-type superconductors,"A theory of superconductivity is presented where the effect of anharmonicity, +as entailed in the acoustic, or optical, phonon damping, is explicitly +considered in the pairing mechanism. The gap equation is solved including +diffusive Akhiezer damping for longitudinal acoustic phonons or Klemens damping +for optical phonons, with a damping coefficient which, in either case, can be +directly related to the Gruneisen parameter and hence to the anharmonic +coefficients in the interatomic potential. The results show that the increase +of anharmonicity has a strikingly non-monotonic effect on the critical +temperature $T_{c}$. The optimal damping coefficient yielding maximum $T_c$ is +set by the velocity of the bosonic mediator. This theory may open up +unprecedented opportunities for material design where $T_{c}$ may be tuned via +the anharmonicity of the interatomic potential, and presents implications for +the superconductivity in the recently discovered hydrides, where anharmonicity +is very strong and for which the anharmonic damping is especially relevant.",2003.06220v2 +2014-05-19,"Comparison of micromagnetic parameters of ferromagnetic semiconductors (Ga,Mn)(As,P) and (Ga,Mn)As","We report on the determination of micromagnetic parameters of epilayers of +the ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As, which has easy axis in the sample +plane, and (Ga,Mn)(As,P) which has easy axis perpendicular to the sample plane. +We use an optical analog of ferromagnetic resonance where the +laser-pulse-induced precession of magnetization is measured directly in the +time domain. By the analysis of a single set of pump-and-probe magneto-optical +data we determined the magnetic anisotropy fields, the spin stiffness and the +Gilbert damping constant in these two materials. We show that incorporation of +10% of phosphorus in (Ga,Mn)As with 6% of manganese leads not only to the +expected sign change of the perpendicular to plane anisotropy field but also to +an increase of the Gilbert damping and to a reduction of the spin stiffness. +The observed changes in the micromagnetic parameters upon incorporating P in +(Ga,Mn)As are consistent with the reduced hole density, conductivity, and Curie +temperature of the (Ga,Mn)(As,P) material. We report that the magnetization +precession damping is stronger for the n = 1 spin wave resonance mode than for +the n = 0 uniform magnetization precession mode.",1405.4677v1 +2015-03-24,Spin dynamics and frequency dependence of magnetic damping study in soft ferromagnetic FeTaC film with a stripe domain structure,"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 in soft ferromagnetic FeTaC thin film with a stripe domain structure +was explored in broad band frequency range by employing micro-strip +ferromagnetic resonance technique. The polar angular variation of resonance +field and linewidth at different frequencies have been analyzed numerically +using Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation by taking into account the total free +energy density of the film. The numerically estimated parameters Land\'{e} +$g$-factor, PMA constant, and effective magnetization are found to be 2.1, +2$\times10^{5}$ erg/cm$^{3}$ and 7145 Oe, respectively. The frequency +dependence of Gilbert damping parameter ($\alpha$) is evaluated by considering +both intrinsic and extrinsic effects into the total linewidth analysis. The +value of $\alpha$ is found to be 0.006 at 10 GHz and it increases with +decreasing precessional frequency.",1503.07043v5 +2016-05-22,Low Gilbert damping in Co2FeSi and Fe2CoSi films,"Thin highly textured Fe$_{\mathrm{1+x}}$Co$_{\mathrm{2-x}}$Si ($0 \leq$ x +$\leq 1$) films were prepared on MgO (001) substrates by magnetron +co-sputtering. The magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) and ferromagnetic resonance +(FMR) measurements were used to investigate the composition dependence of the +magnetization, the magnetic anisotropy, the gyromagnetic ratio and the +relaxation of the films. The effective magnetization for the thin +Fe$_{\mathrm{1+x}}$Co$_{\mathrm{2-x}}$Si films, determined by FMR measurements, +are consistent with the Slater Pauling prediction. Both MOKE and FMR +measurements reveal a pronounced fourfold anisotropy distribution for all +films. In addition we found a strong influence of the stoichiometry on the +anisotropy as the cubic anisotropy strongly increases with increasing Fe +concentration. The gyromagnetic ratio is only weakly dependent on the +composition. We find low Gilbert damping parameters for all films with values +down to $0.0012\pm0.00012$ for Fe$_{1.75}$Co$_{1.25}$Si. The effective damping +parameter for Co$_2$FeSi is found to be $0.0018\pm 0.0004$. We also find a +pronounced anisotropic relaxation, which indicates significant contributions of +two-magnon scattering processes that is strongest along the easy axes of the +films. This makes thin Fe$_{\mathrm{1+x}}$Co$_{\mathrm{2-x}}$Si films ideal +materials for the application in STT-MRAM devices.",1605.06797v1 +2017-09-21,Low Gilbert Damping Constant in Perpendicularly Magnetized W/CoFeB/MgO Films with High Thermal Stability,"Perpendicular magnetic materials with low damping constant and high thermal +stability have great potential for realizing high-density, non-volatile, and +low-power consumption spintronic devices, which can sustain operation +reliability for high processing temperatures. In this work, we study the +Gilbert damping constant ({\alpha}) of perpendicularly magnetized W/CoFeB/MgO +films with a high perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) and superb thermal +stability. The {\alpha} of these PMA films annealed at different temperatures +is determined via an all-optical Time-Resolved Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect +method. We find that {\alpha} of these W/CoFeB/MgO PMA films decreases with +increasing annealing temperature, reaches a minimum of {\alpha} = 0.016 at an +annealing temperature of 350 {\deg}C, and then increases to 0.024 after +post-annealing at 400 {\deg}C. The minimum {\alpha} observed at 350 {\deg}C is +rationalized by two competing effects as the annealing temperature becomes +higher: the enhanced crystallization of CoFeB and dead-layer growth occurring +at the two interfaces of the CoFeB layer. We further demonstrate that {\alpha} +of the 400 {\deg}C-annealed W/CoFeB/MgO film is comparable to that of a +reference Ta/CoFeB/MgO PMA film annealed at 300 {\deg}C, justifying the +enhanced thermal stability of the W-seeded CoFeB films.",1709.07483v1 +2022-02-06,Enhancing Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy in Garnet Ferrimagnet by Interfacing with Few-Layer WTe2,"Engineering magnetic anisotropy in a ferro- or ferrimagnetic (FM) thin film +is crucial in spintronic device. One way to modify the magnetic anisotropy is +through the surface of the FM thin film. Here, we report the emergence of a +perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) induced by interfacial interactions in +a heterostructure comprised of a garnet ferrimagnet, Y3Fe5O12 (YIG), and the +low-symmetry, high spin orbit coupling (SOC) transition metal dichalcogenide, +WTe2. At the same time, we also observed an enhancement in Gilbert damping in +the WTe2 covered YIG area. Both the magnitude of interface-induced PMA and the +Gilbert damping enhancement have no observable WTe2 thickness dependence down +to single quadruple-layer, indicating that the interfacial interaction plays a +critical role. The ability of WTe2 to enhance the PMA in FM thin film, combined +with its previously reported capability to generate out-of-plane damping like +spin torque, makes it desirable for magnetic memory applications.",2202.02834v1 +2022-05-27,Scalar field damping at high temperatures,"The motion of a scalar field that interacts with a hot plasma, like the +inflaton during reheating, is damped, which is a dissipative process. At high +temperatures the damping can be described by a local term in the effective +equation of motion. The damping coefficient is sensitive to multiple +scattering. In the loop expansion its computation would require an all-order +resummation. Instead we solve an effective Boltzmann equation, similarly to the +computation of transport coefficients. For an interaction with another scalar +field we obtain a simple relation between the damping coefficient and the bulk +viscosity, so that one can make use of known results for the latter. The +numerical prefactor of the damping coefficient turns out to be rather large, of +order $ 10 ^ 4 $.",2205.14166v2 +2022-12-02,Equivalence between the energy decay of fractional damped Klein-Gordon equations and geometric conditions for damping coefficients,"We consider damped $s$-fractional Klein--Gordon equations on $\mathbb{R}^d$, +where $s$ denotes the order of the fractional Laplacian. In the one-dimensional +case $d = 1$, Green (2020) established that the exponential decay for $s \geq +2$ and the polynomial decay of order $s/(4-2s)$ hold if and only if the damping +coefficient function satisfies the so-called geometric control condition. In +this note, we show that the $o(1)$ energy decay is also equivalent to these +conditions in the case $d=1$. Furthermore, we extend this result to the +higher-dimensional case: the logarithmic decay, the $o(1)$ decay, and the +thickness of the damping coefficient are equivalent for $s \geq 2$. In +addition, we also prove that the exponential decay holds for $0 < s < 2$ if and +only if the damping coefficient function has a positive lower bound, so in +particular, we cannot expect the exponential decay under the geometric control +condition.",2212.01029v4 +2017-06-13,Uniform energy decay for wave equations with unbounded damping coefficients,"We consider the Cauchy problem for wave equations with unbounded damping +coefficients in the whole space. For a general class of unbounded damping +coefficients, we derive uniform total energy decay estimates together with a +unique existence result of a weak solution. In this case we never impose strong +assumptions such as compactness of the support of the initial data. This means +that we never rely on the finite propagation speed property of the solution, +and we try to deal with an essential unbounded coefficient case.",1706.03942v1 +2021-06-09,Grammage of cosmic rays in the proximity of supernova remnants embedded in a partially ionized medium,"We investigate the damping of Alfv\'en waves generated by the cosmic ray +resonant streaming instability in the context of the cosmic ray escape and +propagation in the proximity of supernova remnants. We consider ion-neutral +damping, turbulent damping and non linear Landau damping in the warm ionized +and warm neutral phases of the interstellar medium. For the ion-neutral +damping, up-to-date damping coefficients are used. We investigate in particular +whether the self-confinement of cosmic rays nearby sources can appreciably +affect the grammage. We show that the ion-neutral damping and the turbulent +damping effectively limit the residence time of cosmic rays in the source +proximity, so that the grammage accumulated near sources is found to be +negligible. Contrary to previous results, this also happens in the most extreme +scenario where ion-neutral damping is less effective, namely in a medium with +only neutral helium and fully ionized hydrogen. Therefore, the standard +picture, in which CR secondaries are produced during the whole time spent by +cosmic rays throughout the Galactic disk, need not to be deeply revisited.",2106.04948v1 +2023-02-23,Buckling Metamaterials for Extreme Vibration Damping,"Damping mechanical resonances is a formidable challenge in an increasing +number of applications. Many of the passive damping methods rely on using low +stiffness dissipative elements, complex mechanical structures or electrical +systems, while active vibration damping systems typically add an additional +layer of complexity. However, in many cases, the reduced stiffness or +additional complexity and mass render these vibration damping methods +unfeasible. Here, we introduce a method for passive vibration damping by +allowing buckling of the primary load path, which sets an upper limit for +vibration transmission: the transmitted acceleration saturates at a maximum +value, no matter what the input acceleration is. This nonlinear mechanism leads +to an extreme damping coefficient tan delta ~0.23 in our metal +metamaterial|orders of magnitude larger than the linear damping of traditional +lightweight structural materials. We demonstrate this principle experimentally +and numerically in free-standing rubber and metal mechanical metamaterials over +a range of accelerations, and show that bi-directional buckling can further +improve its performance. Buckling metamaterials pave the way towards extreme +vibration damping without mass or stiffness penalty, and as such could be +applicable in a multitude of high-tech applications, including aerospace +structures, vehicles and sensitive instruments.",2302.11968v1 +2014-03-19,The effects of time-dependent dissipation on the basins of attraction for the pendulum with oscillating support,"We consider a pendulum with vertically oscillating support and time-dependent +damping coefficient which varies until reaching a finite final value. The sizes +of the corresponding basins of attraction are found to depend strongly on the +full evolution of the dissipation. In order to predict the behaviour of the +system, it is essential to understand how the sizes of the basins of attraction +for constant dissipation depend on the damping coefficient. For values of the +parameters in the perturbation regime, we characterise analytically the +conditions under which the attractors exist and study numerically how the sizes +of their basins of attraction depend on the damping coefficient. Away from the +perturbation regime, a numerical study of the attractors and the corresponding +basins of attraction for different constant values of the damping coefficient +produces a much more involved scenario: changing the magnitude of the +dissipation causes some attractors to disappear either leaving no trace or +producing new attractors by bifurcation, such as period doubling and +saddle-node bifurcation. For an initially non-constant damping coefficient, +both increasing and decreasing to some finite final value, we numerically +observe that, when the damping coefficient varies slowly from a finite initial +value to a different final value, without changing the set of attractors, the +slower the variation the closer the sizes of the basins of attraction are to +those they have for constant damping coefficient fixed at the initial value. If +during the variation of the damping coefficient attractors appear or disappear, +remarkable additional phenomena may occur. For instance, a fixed point +asymptotically may attract the entire phase space, up to a zero measure set, +even though no attractor with such a property exists for any value of the +damping coefficient between the extreme values.",1403.4996v1 +2016-08-14,Mechanical energy and mean equivalent viscous damping for SDOF fractional oscillators,"This paper addresses the total mechanical energy of a single degree of +freedom fractional oscillator. Based on the energy storage and dissipation +properties of the Caputo fractional derivatives, the expression for total +mechanical energy in the single degree of freedom fractional oscillator is +firstly presented. The energy regeneration due to the external exciting force +and the energy loss due to the fractional damping force during the vibratory +motion are analyzed. Furthermore, based on the mean energy dissipation of the +fractional damping element in steady-state vibration, a new concept of mean +equivalent viscous damping is suggested and the value of the damping +coefficient is evaluated.",1608.04071v1 +2023-09-26,Qualitative properties of solutions to a nonlinear transmission problem for an elastic Bresse beam,"We consider a nonlinear transmission problem for a Bresse beam, which +consists of two parts, damped and undamped. The mechanical damping in the +damped part is present in the shear angle equation only, and the damped part +may be of arbitrary positive length. We prove well-posedness of the +corresponding PDE system in energy space and establish existence of a regular +global attractor under certain conditions on nonlinearities and coefficients of +the damped part only. Moreover, we study singular limits of the problem when +$l\to 0$ or $l\to 0$ simultaneously with $k_i\to +\infty$ and perform numerical +modelling for these processes.",2309.15171v2 +2016-09-05,Remarks on an elliptic problem arising in weighted energy estimates for wave equations with space-dependent damping term in an exterior domain,"This paper is concerned with weighted energy estimates and diffusion +phenomena for the initial-boundary problem of the wave equation with +space-dependent damping term in an exterior domain. In this analysis, an +elliptic problem was introduced by Todorova and Yordanov. This attempt was +quite useful when the coefficient of the damping term is radially symmetric. In +this paper, by modifying their elliptic problem, we establish weighted energy +estimates and diffusion phenomena even when the coefficient of the damping term +is not radially symmetric.",1609.01063v2 +2017-03-09,Long-time dynamics of the strongly damped semilinear plate equation in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$,"We investigate the initial-value problem for the semilinear plate equation +containing localized strong damping, localized weak damping and nonlocal +nonlinearity. We prove that if nonnegative damping coefficients are strictly +positive almost everywhere in the exterior of some ball and the sum of these +coefficients is positive a.e. in $% + \mathbb{R} + ^{n}$, then the semigroup generated by the considered problem possesses a +global attractor in $H^{2}\left( + \mathbb{R} + ^{n}\right) \times L^{2}\left( + \mathbb{R} + ^{n}\right) $. We also establish boundedness of this attractor in $ +H^{3}\left( + \mathbb{R} + ^{n}\right) \times H^{2}\left( + \mathbb{R} ^{n}\right) $.",1703.03485v2 +2020-11-06,A generalized finite element method for the strongly damped wave equation with rapidly varying data,"We propose a generalized finite element method for the strongly damped wave +equation with highly varying coefficients. The proposed method is based on the +localized orthogonal decomposition introduced and is designed to handle +independent variations in both the damping and the wave propagation speed +respectively. The method does so by automatically correcting for the damping in +the transient phase and for the propagation speed in the steady state phase. +Convergence of optimal order is proven in $L_2(H^1)$-norm, independent of the +derivatives of the coefficients. We present numerical examples that confirm the +theoretical findings.",2011.03311v1 +2022-10-30,Intrinsic polynomial squeezing for Balakrishnan-Taylor beam models,"We explore the energy decay properties related to a model in extensible beams +with the so-called energy damping. We investigate the influence of the +nonloncal damping coefficient in the stability of the model. We prove, for the +first time, that the corresponding energy functional is squeezed by +polynomial-like functions involving the power of the damping coefficient, which +arises intrinsically from the Balakrishnan-Taylor beam models. As a +consequence, it is shown that such models with nonlocal energy damping are +never exponentially stable in its essence.",2210.16931v1 +2020-11-16,Technology to Counter Online Flaming Based on the Frequency-Dependent Damping Coefficient in the Oscillation Model,"Online social networks, which are remarkably active, often experience +explosive user dynamics such as online flaming, which can significantly impact +the real world. However, countermeasures based on social analyses of the +individuals causing flaming are too slow to be effective because of the +rapidity with which the influence of online user dynamics propagates. A +countermeasure technology for the flaming phenomena based on the oscillation +model, which describes online user dynamics, has been proposed; it is an +immediate solution as it does not depend on social analyses of individuals. +Conventional countermeasures based on the oscillation model assume that the +damping coefficient is a constant regardless of the eigenfrequency. This +assumption is, however, problematic as the damping coefficients are, in +general, inherently frequency-dependent; the theory underlying the dependence +is being elucidated. This paper discusses a design method that uses the damping +coefficient to prevent flaming under general conditions considering the +frequency-dependence of the damping coefficient and proposes a countermeasure +technology for the flaming phenomena.",2011.08117v1 +2018-10-25,Time-retarded damping and magnetic inertia in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation self-consistently coupled to electronic time-dependent nonequilibrium Green functions,"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 +cause. Here we demonstrate that recently developed [M. D. Petrovi\'{c} {\em et +al.}, {\tt arXiv:1802.05682}] self-consistent coupling of the LLG equation to +time-dependent quantum-mechanical description of electrons microscopically +generates time-retarded damping in the LLG equation described by a memory +kernel which is also spatially dependent. For sufficiently slow dynamics of +local magnetic moments, the memory kernel can be expanded to extract the +Gilbert damping (proportional to first time derivative of magnetization) and +magnetic inertia (proportional to second time derivative of magnetization) +terms whose parameters, however, are time-dependent in contrast to +time-independent parameters used in the conventional LLG equation. We use +examples of single or multiple magnetic moments precessing in an external +magnetic field, as well as field-driven motion of a magnetic domain wall (DW), +to quantify the difference in their time evolution computed from conventional +LLG equation vs. TDNEGF+LLG quantum-classical hybrid approach. The faster DW +motion predicted by TDNEGF+LLG approach reveals that important quantum effects, +stemming from finite amount of time which it takes for conduction electron spin +to react to the motion of classical local magnetic moments, are missing from +conventional classical micromagnetics simulations. We also demonstrate large +discrepancy between TDNEGF+LLG-computed numerically exact and, therefore, +nonperturbative result for charge current pumped by a moving DW and the same +quantity computed by perturbative spin motive force formula combined with the +conventional LLG equation.",1810.11016v2 +2019-08-08,Annihilation of topological solitons in magnetism with spin wave burst finale: The role of nonequilibrium electrons causing nonlocal damping and spin pumping over ultrabroadband frequency range,"We not only reproduce burst of short-wavelength spin waves (SWs) observed in +recent experiment [S. Woo et al., Nat. Phys. 13, 448 (2017)] on +magnetic-field-driven annihilation of two magnetic domain walls (DWs) but, +furthermore, we predict that this setup additionally generates highly unusual} +pumping of electronic spin currents in the absence of any bias voltage. Prior +to the instant of annihilation, their power spectrum is ultrabroadband, so they +can be converted into rapidly changing in time charge currents, via the inverse +spin Hall effect, as a source of THz radiation of bandwidth $\simeq 27$ THz +where the lowest frequency is controlled by the applied magnetic field. The +spin pumping stems from time-dependent fields introduced into the quantum +Hamiltonian of electrons by the classical dynamics of localized magnetic +moments (LMMs) comprising the domains. The pumped currents carry spin-polarized +electrons which, in turn, exert backaction on LMMs in the form of nonlocal +damping which is more than twice as large as conventional local Gilbert +damping. The nonlocal damping can substantially modify the spectrum of emitted +SWs when compared to widely-used micromagnetic simulations where conduction +electrons are completely absent. Since we use fully microscopic (i.e., +Hamiltonian-based) framework, self-consistently combining time-dependent +electronic nonequilibrium Green functions with the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert +equation, we also demonstrate that previously derived phenomenological formulas +miss ultrabroadband spin pumping while underestimating the magnitude of +nonlocal damping due to nonequilibrium electrons.",1908.03194v5 +2020-09-23,Remark on the exponential decay of the solutions of the damped wave equation,"A condition which guaranties the exponential decay of the solutions of the +initial-boundary value problem for the damped wave equation is proved. A method +for the effective computability of the coefficient of exponential decay is also +presented.",2009.11244v1 +2021-06-22,Choice of Damping Coefficient in Langevin Dynamics,"This article considers the application of Langevin dynamics to sampling and +investigates how to choose the damping parameter in Langevin dynamics for the +purpose of maximizing thoroughness of sampling. Also, it considers the +computation of measures of sampling thoroughness.",2106.11597v1 +2004-03-12,Factorization of damped wave equations with cubic nonlinearities,"The recent factorization scheme that we introduced for nonlinear polynomial +ODEs in math-ph/0401040 is applied to the interesting case of damped wave +equations with cubic nonlinearities. Traveling kink solutions are possible in +the plane defined by the kink velocity versus the damping coefficient only +along hyperbolas that are plotted herein",0403022v1 +2002-08-07,Toward a Universal Model of Damping--Modified Coulomb Friction,"A modification of Coulomb's law of friction uses a variable coefficient of +friction that depends on a power law in the energy of mechanical oscillation. +Through the use of three different exponents: 0, 1/2 and 1; all commonly +encountered non-viscous forms of damping are accommodated. The nonlinear model +appears to yield good agreement with experiment in cases of surface, internal, +and amplitude dependent damping.",0208025v1 +2012-12-08,A note on the lifespan of solutions to the semilinear damped wave equation,"This paper concerns estimates of the lifespan of solutions to the semilinear +damped wave equation. We give upper estimates of the lifespan for the +semilinear damped wave equation with variable coefficients in all space +dimensions.",1212.1772v3 +2018-03-20,Stability of the wave equations on a tree with local Kelvin-Voigt damping,"In this paper we study the stability problem of a tree of elastic strings +with local Kelvin-Voigt damping on some of the edges. Under the compatibility +condition of displacement and strain and continuity condition of damping +coefficients at the vertices of the tree, exponential/polynomial stability are +proved.",1803.07280v1 +2021-08-17,Spectral enclosures for the damped elastic wave equation,"In this paper we investigate spectral properties of the damped elastic wave +equation. Deducing a correspondence between the eigenvalue problem of this +model and the one of Lam\'e operators with non self-adjoint perturbations, we +provide quantitative bounds on the location of the point spectrum in terms of +suitable norms of the damping coefficient.",2108.07676v1 +2022-05-26,Ergodic results for the stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with large damping,"We study the nonlinear Schr\""odinger equation with linear damping, i.e. a +zero order dissipation, and additive noise. Working in $R^d$ with d = 2 or d = +3, we prove the uniqueness of the invariant measure when the damping +coefficient is sufficiently large.",2205.13364v1 +2016-08-30,Optimal damping ratios of multi-axial perfectly matched layers for elastic-wave modeling in general anisotropic media,"The conventional Perfectly Matched Layer (PML) is unstable for certain kinds +of anisotropic media. This instability is intrinsic and independent of PML +formulation or implementation. The Multi-axial PML (MPML) removes such +instability using a nonzero damping coefficient in the direction parallel with +the interface between a PML and the investigated domain. The damping ratio of +MPML is the ratio between the damping coefficients along the directions +parallel with and perpendicular to the interface between a PML and the +investigated domain. No quantitative approach is available for obtaining these +damping ratios for general anisotropic media. We develop a quantitative +approach to determining optimal damping ratios to not only stabilize PMLs, but +also minimize the artificial reflections from MPMLs. Numerical tests based on +finite-difference method show that our new method can effectively provide a set +of optimal MPML damping ratios for elastic-wave propagation in 2D and 3D +general anisotropic media.",1608.08326v3 +2017-10-13,Mode-Dependent Damping in Metallic Antiferromagnets Due to Inter-Sublattice Spin Pumping,"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 controlled in practice, the damping parameters of +antiferromagnetic materials are nevertheless little known for their physical +mechanisms or numerical values. Here we calculate the damping parameters in +antiferromagnetic dynamics using the generalized scattering theory of +magnetization dissipation combined with the first-principles transport +computation. For the PtMn, IrMn, PdMn and FeMn metallic antiferromagnets, the +damping coefficient associated with the motion of magnetization ($\alpha_m$) is +one to three orders of magnitude larger than the other damping coefficient +associated with the variation of the N\'eel order ($\alpha_n$), in sharp +contrast to the assumptions made in the literature.",1710.04766v1 +2020-03-29,Stability results for an elastic-viscoelastic waves interaction systems with localized Kelvin-Voigt damping and with an internal or boundary time delay,"We investigate the stability of a one-dimensional wave equation with non +smooth localized internal viscoelastic damping of Kelvin-Voigt type and with +boundary or localized internal delay feedback. The main novelty in this paper +is that the Kelvin-Voigt and the delay damping are both localized via non +smooth coefficients. In the case that the Kelvin-Voigt damping is localized +faraway from the tip and the wave is subjected to a locally distributed +internal or boundary delay feedback, we prove that the energy of the system +decays polynomially of type t^{-4}. However, an exponential decay of the energy +of the system is established provided that the Kelvin-Voigt damping is +localized near a part of the boundary and a time delay damping acts on the +second boundary. While, when the Kelvin-Voigt and the internal delay damping +are both localized via non smooth coefficients near the tip, the energy of the +system decays polynomially of type t^{-4}. Frequency domain arguments combined +with piecewise multiplier techniques are employed.",2003.12967v1 +2023-09-15,On the formation of singularities for the slightly supercritical NLS equation with nonlinear damping,"We consider the focusing, mass-supercritical NLS equation augmented with a +nonlinear damping term. We provide sufficient conditions on the nonlinearity +exponents and damping coefficients for finite-time blow-up. In particular, +singularities are formed for focusing and dissipative nonlinearities of the +same power, provided that the damping coefficient is sufficiently small. Our +result thus rigorously proves the non-regularizing effect of nonlinear damping +in the mass-supercritical case, which was suggested by previous numerical and +formal results. + We show that, under our assumption, the damping term may be controlled in +such a way that the self-similar blow-up structure for the focusing NLS is +approximately retained even within the dissipative evolution. The nonlinear +damping contributes as a forcing term in the equation for the perturbation +around the self-similar profile, that may produce a growth over finite time +intervals. We estimate the error terms through a modulation analysis and a +careful control of the time evolution of total momentum and energy functionals.",2309.08281v1 +2006-06-05,Phenomenological theory of current driven exchange switching in ferromagnetic nanojunctions,"Phenomenological approach is developed in the theory of spin-valve type +ferromagnetic junctions to describe exchange switching by current flowing +perpendicular to interfaces. Forward and backward current switching effects are +described and they may be principally different in nature. Mobile electron +spins are considered as being free in all the contacting ferromagnetic layers. +Joint action of the following two current effects is investigated: the +nonequilibrium longitudinal spin-injection effective field and the transverse +spin-transfer surface torque. Dispersion relation for fluctuations is derived +and solved for a junction model having spatially localized spin transfer +torque: depth of the torque penetration into the free layer is assumed much +smaller than the total free layer thickness. Some critical value of the well +known Gilbert damping constant is established for the first time. Spin transfer +torque dominates in the instability threshold determination for small enough +damping constants, while the spin-injection effective field dominates for high +damping. Fine interplay between spin transfer torque and spin injection is +necessary to provide a hysteretic behavior of the resistance versus current +dependence. The state diagram building up shows the possibility of +non-stationary (time dependent) nonlinear states arising due to instability +development. Calculations lead to the instability rise time values of the order +of 0.1 ns. Spin wave resonance frequency spectrum softening occurs under the +current growing to the instability threshold. Magnetization fluctuations above +the threshold rise oscillating with time for low damping, but rise +aperiodically and much more rapid for high damping.",0606102v2 +2015-07-29,Spin dynamics and relaxation in the classical-spin Kondo-impurity model beyond the Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert equation,"The real-time dynamics of a classical spin in an external magnetic field and +locally exchange coupled to an extended one-dimensional system of +non-interacting conduction electrons is studied numerically. Retardation +effects in the coupled electron-spin dynamics are shown to be the source for +the relaxation of the spin in the magnetic field. Total energy and spin is +conserved in the non-adiabatic process. Approaching the new local ground state +is therefore accompanied by the emission of dispersive wave packets of +excitations carrying energy and spin and propagating through the lattice with +Fermi velocity. While the spin dynamics in the regime of strong exchange +coupling J is rather complex and governed by an emergent new time scale, the +motion of the spin for weak J is regular and qualitatively well described by +the Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation. Quantitatively, however, the full +quantum-classical hybrid dynamics differs from the LLG approach. This is +understood as a breakdown of weak-coupling perturbation theory in J in the +course of time. Furthermore, it is shown that the concept of the Gilbert +damping parameter is ill-defined for the case of a one-dimensional system.",1507.08227v2 +2008-09-26,Damping and magnetic anisotropy of ferromagnetic GaMnAs thin films,"The magnetic properties of annealed, epitaxial Ga0.93Mn0.07As layers under +tensile and compressive stress have been investigated by X-band (9GHz) and +Q-band (35GHz) ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectroscopy. From the analysis of +the linewidths of the uniform mode spectra the FMR Gilbert damping factor +""alpha"" has been determined. At T=4K we obtain a minimum damping factor of +""alpha"" = 0.003 for the compressively stressed layer. Its value is not +isotropic. It has a minimum value for the easy axes orientations of the +magnetic field and increases with the measuring temperature. Its average value +is for both type of films of the order of 0.01 in spite of strong differences +in the inhomogeneous linewidth which vary between 20 Oe and 600 Oe for the +layers grown on GaAs and GaInAs substrates respectively.",0809.4644v2 +2013-08-02,Spin pumping damping and magnetic proximity effect in Pd and Pt spin-sink layers,"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 damping enhancement $\Delta\alpha$ on the heavy-metal +spin-sink layer thicknesses t$_\textrm{N}$ in direct-contact +Ni$_{81}$Fe$_{19}$/(Pd, Pt) junctions, whereas an exponential dependence is +observed when Ni$_{81}$Fe$_{19}$ and (Pd, Pt) are separated by \unit[3]{nm} Cu. +We attribute the quasi-linear thickness dependence to the presence of induced +moments in Pt, Pd near the interface with Ni$_{81}$Fe$_{19}$, quantified using +X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) measurements. Our results show that +the scattering of pure spin current is configuration-dependent in these systems +and cannot be described by a single characteristic length.",1308.0450v2 +2015-02-05,Nonlinear analysis of magnetization dynamics excited by spin Hall effect,"We investigate the possibility of exciting self-oscillation in a +perpendicular ferromagnet by the spin Hall effect on the basis of a nonlinear +analysis of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation. In the self-oscillation +state, the energy supplied by the spin torque during a precession on a constant +energy curve should equal the dissipation due to damping. Also, the current to +balance the spin torque and the damping torque in the self-oscillation state +should be larger than the critical current to destabilize the initial state. We +find that the second condition in the spin Hall system is not satisfied by +deriving analytical solutions of the energy supplied by the spin transfer +effect and the dissipation due to the damping from the nonlinear LLG equation. +This indicates that the self-oscillation of a perpendicular ferromagnet cannot +be excited solely by the spin Hall torque.",1502.01420v2 +2015-03-04,Critical current destabilizing perpendicular magnetization by the spin Hall effect,"The critical current needed to destabilize the magnetization of a +perpendicular ferromagnet via the spin Hall effect is studied. Both the +dampinglike and fieldlike torques associated with the spin current generated by +the spin Hall effect is included in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation to +model the system. In the absence of the fieldlike torque, the critical current +is independent of the damping constant and is much larger than that of +conventional spin torque switching of collinear magnetic systems, as in +magnetic tunnel junctions. With the fieldlike torque included, we find that the +critical current scales with the damping constant as $\alpha^{0}$ (i.e., +damping independent),$\alpha$, and $\alpha^{1/2}$ depending on the sign of the +fieldlike torque and other parameters such as the external field. Numerical and +analytical results show that the critical current can be significantly reduced +when the fieldlike torque possesses the appropriate sign, i.e. when the +effective field associated with the fieldlike torque is pointing opposite to +the spin direction of the incoming electrons. These results provide a pathway +to reducing the current needed to switch magnetization using the spin Hall +effect.",1503.01478v2 +2015-10-23,Laser-induced THz magnetization precession for a tetragonal Heusler-like nearly compensated ferrimagnet,"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 frequency for which exceeded 0.5 THz and originated from the +large magnetic anisotropy field of approximately 200 kOe for this ferrimagnet. +The effective damping constant was approximately 0.03. The corresponding +effective Landau-Lifshitz constant of approximately 60 Mrad/s and is comparable +to those of the similar Mn-Ga materials. The physical mechanisms for the +Gilbert damping and for the laser-induced excitation of the FMR mode were also +discussed in terms of the spin-orbit-induced damping and the laser-induced +ultrafast modulation of the magnetic anisotropy, respectively.",1510.06793v1 +2017-04-11,CoFeAlB alloy with low damping and low magnetization for spin transfer torque switching,"We investigate the effect of Al doping on the magnetic properties of the +alloy CoFeB. Comparative measurements of the saturation magnetization, the +Gilbert damping parameter $\alpha$ and the exchange constant as a function of +the annealing temperature for CoFeB and CoFeAlB thin films are presented. Our +results reveal a strong reduction of the magnetization for CoFeAlB in +comparison to CoFeB. If the prepared CoFeAlB films are amorphous, the damping +parameter $\alpha$ is unaffected by the Al doping in comparison to the CoFeB +alloy. In contrast, in the case of a crystalline CoFeAlB film, $\alpha$ is +found to be reduced. Furthermore, the x-ray characterization and the evolution +of the exchange constant with the annealing temperature indicate a similar +crystallization process in both alloys. The data proves the suitability of +CoFeAlB for spin torque switching properties where a reduction of the switching +current in comparison with CoFeB is expected.",1704.03326v1 +2018-09-25,"Theory of damping in magnetization dynamics, dispelling a myth and pointing a way forward","There is a widely-held belief amongst theoreticians that the Gilbert damping +parameter {\alpha} in magnetization dynamics is infinite for a pure metal at +T=0. The basic error leading to this belief is pointed out explicitly and the +various methods of calculation used are viewed in a unified way based on the +Lorentzian lineshape of ferromagnetic resonance spectra. A general torque +formula for {\alpha} is proposed as a good starting-point for treating +inhomogeneous materials such as alloys, compounds and layered structures. Local +spin density functional theory provides a simple physical picture, in terms of +a non-uniform precessional cone angle in ferromagnetic resonance, of how such +inhomogeneity contributes to the damping. In a complementary many-body theory +this contribution is given by a vertex correction to the torque-torque response +function.",1809.09429v1 +2018-10-31,Anisotropic and controllable Gilbert-Bloch dissipation in spin valves,"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 angle its equilibrium magnetization makes with that in the fixed +layer. The spin pumping-mediated damping is anisotropic and tensorial, with +Gilbert- and Bloch-like terms. Our investigation reveals a mechanism for tuning +the free layer damping in-situ from negligible to a large value via the +orientation of fixed layer magnetization, especially when the magnets are +electrically insulating. Furthermore, we expect the Bloch contribution that +emerges from the longitudinal spin accumulation in the non-magnetic spacer to +play an important role in a wide range of other phenomena in spin valves.",1811.00020v2 +2019-07-27,Two improved Gauss-Seidel projection methods for Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation,"In this paper, we present two improved Gauss-Seidel projection methods with +unconditional stability. The first method updates the gyromagnetic term and the +damping term simultaneously and follows by a projection step. The second method +introduces two sets of approximate solutions, where we update the gyromagnetic +term and the damping term simultaneously for one set of approximate solutions +and apply the projection step to the other set of approximate solutions in an +alternating manner. Compared to the original Gauss-Seidel projection method +which has to solve heat equations $7$ times at each time step, the improved +methods solve heat equations $5$ times and $3$ times, respectively. First-order +accuracy in time and second-order accuracy in space are verified by examples in +both 1D and 3D. In addition, unconditional stability with respect to both the +grid size and the damping parameter is confirmed numerically. Application of +both methods to a realistic material is also presented with hysteresis loops +and magnetization profiles. Compared with the original method, the recorded +running times suggest that savings of both methods are about $2/7$ and $4/7$ +for the same accuracy requirement, respectively.",1907.11853v1 +2020-10-01,Modeling coupled spin and lattice dynamics,"A unified model of molecular and atomistic spin dynamics is presented +enabling simulations both in microcanonical and canonical ensembles without the +necessity of additional phenomenological spin damping. Transfer of energy and +angular momentum between the lattice and the spin systems is achieved by a +coupling term based upon the spin-orbit interaction. The characteristic spectra +of the spin and phonon systems are analyzed for different coupling strength and +temperatures. The spin spectral density shows magnon modes together with the +uncorrelated noise induced by the coupling to the lattice. The effective +damping parameter is investigated showing an increase with both coupling +strength and temperature. The model paves the way to understanding magnetic +relaxation processes beyond the phenomenological approach of the Gilbert +damping and the dynamics of the energy transfer between lattice and spins.",2010.00642v1 +2021-04-22,Impact of Fe$_{80}$B$_{20}$ insertion on the properties of dual-MgO perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions,"We explore the impact of Fe80B20 inserted at both +Co$_{20}$Fe$_{80}$B$_{20}$/MgO interfaces of dual-MgO free layers (FLs) in +bottom-pinned magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). MTJ stacks are annealed for 30 +min at 350 $^\circ$C and 400 $^\circ$C in a vacuum after film deposition. +Current-in-plane tunneling measurements are carried out to characterize +magnetotransport properties of the MTJs. Conventional magnetometry measurements +and ferromagnetic resonance are conducted to estimate the saturation +magnetization, the effective perpendicular anisotropy field and the Gilbert +damping of dual-MgO FLs as a function of the Fe$_{80}$B$_{20}$ thickness and +annealing temperatures. With ultrathin Fe$_{80}$B$_{20}$ (0.2 - 0.4 nm) +inserted, perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) of FLs increases with similar +tunnel magneto-resistance (TMR) and low damping values. As Fe$_{80}$B$_{20}$ +layer thickness further increases (0.6 - 1.2 nm), both TMR and PMA degrade, and +damping increases dramatically. This study demonstrates a novel approach to +tune properties of MTJ stacks with dual-MgO FLs up to 400 $^\circ$C annealing, +which enables MTJ stacks for various applications.",2104.10918v1 +2021-09-24,Damping in yttrium iron garnet film with an interface,"We report strong damping enhancement in a 200 nm thick yttrium iron garnet +(YIG) film due to spin inhomogeneity at the interface. The growth-induced thin +interfacial gadolinium iron garnet (GdIG) layer antiferromagnetically (AFM) +exchange couples with the rest of the YIG layer. The out-of-plane angular +variation of ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) linewidth $\Delta H$ reflects a +large inhomogeneous distribution of effective magnetization $\Delta 4 \pi +M_{eff}$ due to the presence of an exchange springlike moments arrangement in +YIG. We probe the spin inhomogeneity at the YIG-GdIG interface by performing an +in-plane angular variation of resonance field $H_{r}$, leading to a +unidirectional feature. The large extrinsic $\Delta 4\pi M_{eff}$ contribution, +apart from the inherent intrinsic Gilbert contribution, manifests enhanced +precessional damping in YIG film.",2109.12071v1 +2019-01-29,Bounding the spectral gap for an elliptic eigenvalue problem with uniformly bounded stochastic coefficients,"A key quantity that occurs in the error analysis of several numerical methods +for eigenvalue problems is the distance between the eigenvalue of interest and +the next nearest eigenvalue. When we are interested in the smallest or +fundamental eigenvalue, we call this the spectral or fundamental gap. In a +recent manuscript [Gilbert et al., arXiv:1808.02639], the current authors, +together with Frances Kuo, studied an elliptic eigenvalue problem with +homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, and with coefficients that depend on +an infinite number of uniformly distributed stochastic parameters. In this +setting, the eigenvalues, and in turn the eigenvalue gap, also depend on the +stochastic parameters. Hence, for a robust error analysis one needs to be able +to bound the gap over all possible realisations of the parameters, and because +the gap depends on infinitely-many random parameters, this is not trivial. This +short note presents, in a simplified setting, an important result that was +shown in the paper above. Namely, that, under certain decay assumptions on the +coefficient, the spectral gap of such a random elliptic eigenvalue problem can +be bounded away from 0, uniformly over the entire infinite-dimensional +parameter space.",1901.10470v1 +2003-09-11,Theory of Current-Induced Magnetization Precession,"We solve appropriate drift-diffusion and Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations to +demonstrate that unpolarized current flow from a non-magnet into a ferromagnet +can produce a precession-type instability of the magnetization. The fundamental +origin of the instability is the difference in conductivity between majority +spins and minority spins in the ferromagnet. This leads to spin accumulation +and spin currents that carry angular momentum across the interface. The +component of this angular momentum perpendicular to the magnetization drives +precessional motion that is opposed by Gilbert damping. Neglecting magnetic +anisotropy and magnetostatics, our approximate analytic and exact numerical +solutions using realistic values for the material parameters show (for both +semi-infinite and thin film geometries) that a linear instability occurs when +both the current density and the excitation wave vector parallel to the +interface are neither too small nor too large. For many aspects of the problem, +the variation of the magnetization in the direction of the current flows makes +an important contribution.",0309289v1 +2005-07-20,All-optical probe of precessional magnetization dynamics in exchange biased NiFe/FeMn bilayers,"An internal anisotropy pulse field is launched by an 8.3 ps short laser +excitation, which triggers precessional magnetization dynamics of a +polycrystalline NiFe/FeMn exchange bias system on the picosecond timescale. Due +to the excitation the unidirectional anisotropy and, thus, the exchange +coupling across the interface between the ferromagnetic and the +antiferromagnetic layer is reduced, leading to a fast reduction of the exchange +bias field and to a dramatic increase of the zero-field susceptibility. The +fast optical unpinning is followed by a slower recovery of the interfacial +exchange coupling dominated by spin-lattice and heat flow relaxation with a +time constant of the order of 160 ps. The measured picosecond time evolution of +the exchange decoupling and restoration is interpreted as an anisotropy pulse +field giving rise to fast precessional magnetization dynamics of the +ferromagnetic layer. The strength of the internal pulse field and even the +initial magnetization deflection direction from the equilibrium orientation can +be controlled by the absorbed photons. The dependence of the effective Gilbert +damping on both small and large angle precessional motion was studied, yielding +that both cases can be modeled with reasonable accuracy within the +Landau-Lifshitz and Gilbert framework.",0507475v1 +2009-05-28,Hydrodynamic theory of coupled current and magnetization dynamics in spin-textured ferromagnets,"We develop the hydrodynamical theory of collinear spin currents coupled to +magnetization dynamics in metallic ferromagnets. The collective spin density +couples to the spin current through a U(1) Berry-phase gauge field determined +by the local texture and dynamics of the magnetization. We determine +phenomenologically the dissipative corrections to the equation of motion for +the electronic current, which consist of a dissipative spin-motive force +generated by magnetization dynamics and a magnetic texture-dependent +resistivity tensor. The reciprocal dissipative, adiabatic spin torque on the +magnetic texture follows from the Onsager principle. We investigate the effects +of thermal fluctuations and find that electronic dynamics contribute to a +nonlocal Gilbert damping tensor in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation for the +magnetization. Several simple examples, including magnetic vortices, helices, +and spirals, are analyzed in detail to demonstrate general principles.",0905.4544v2 +2010-11-26,Dependence of nonlocal Gilbert damping on the ferromagnetic layer type in FM/Cu/Pt heterostructures,"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 three FM layers, where the additional relaxation obeys both a +strict inverse power law dependence $\Delta G =K \:t^{n}$, +$n=-\textrm{1.04}\pm\textrm{0.06}$ and a similar magnitude +$K=\textrm{224}\pm\textrm{40 Mhz}\cdot\textrm{nm}$. As the tested FM layers +span an order of magnitude in spin diffusion length $\lambda_{SDL}$, the +results are in support of spin diffusion, rather than nonlocal resistivity, as +the origin of the effect.",1011.5868v1 +2012-06-21,Fast domain wall propagation in uniaxial nanowires with transverse fields,"Under a magnetic field along its axis, domain wall motion in a uniaxial +nanowire is much slower than in the fully anisotropic case, typically by +several orders of magnitude (the square of the dimensionless Gilbert damping +parameter). However, with the addition of a magnetic field transverse to the +wire, this behaviour is dramatically reversed; up to a critical field strength, +analogous to the Walker breakdown field, domain walls in a uniaxial wire +propagate faster than in a fully anisotropic wire (without transverse field). +Beyond this critical field strength, precessional motion sets in, and the mean +velocity decreases. Our results are based on leading-order analytic +calculations of the velocity and critical field as well as numerical solutions +of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation.",1206.4819v2 +2013-03-05,"Angle-Dependent Spin-Wave Resonance Spectroscopy of (Ga,Mn)As Films","A modeling approach for standing spin-wave resonances based on a +finite-difference formulation of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation is +presented. In contrast to a previous study [Bihler et al., Phys. Rev. B 79, +045205 (2009)], this formalism accounts for elliptical magnetization precession +and magnetic properties arbitrarily varying across the layer thickness, +including the magnetic anisotropy parameters, the exchange stiffness, the +Gilbert damping, and the saturation magnetization. To demonstrate the +usefulness of our modeling approach, we experimentally study a set of (Ga,Mn)As +samples grown by low-temperature molecular-beam epitaxy by means of +electrochemical capacitance-voltage measurements and angle-dependent standing +spin-wave resonance spectroscopy. By applying our modeling approach, the angle +dependence of the spin-wave resonance data can be reproduced in a simulation +with one set of simulation parameters for all external field orientations. We +find that the approximately linear gradient in the out-of-plane magnetic +anisotropy is related to a linear gradient in the hole concentrations of the +samples.",1303.1192v1 +2013-04-26,Landau-Lifshitz theory of the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect,"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 a nonequilibrium steady state by equilibrating with +phonons via bulk Gilbert damping and electrons in the paramagnet via spin +pumping, according to the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. Subthermal magnons +and the associated spin currents are treated classically, while the appropriate +quantum crossover is imposed on high-frequency magnetic fluctuations. We +identify several length scales in the ferromagnet, which govern qualitative +changes in the dependence of the thermally-induced spin current on the magnetic +film thickness.",1304.7295v2 +2013-09-21,Patterns formation in axially symmetric Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert-Slonczewski equations,"The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert-Slonczewski equation describes magnetization +dynamics in the presence of an applied field and a spin polarized current. In +the case of axial symmetry and with focus on one space dimension, we +investigate the emergence of space-time patterns in the form of wavetrains and +coherent structures, whose local wavenumber varies in space. A major part of +this study concerns existence and stability of wavetrains and of front- and +domain wall-type coherent structures whose profiles asymptote to wavetrains or +the constant up-/down-magnetizations. For certain polarization the Slonczewski +term can be removed which allows for a more complete charaterization, including +soliton-type solutions. Decisive for the solution structure is the polarization +parameter as well as size of anisotropy compared with the difference of field +intensity and current intensity normalized by the damping.",1309.5523v4 +2014-02-27,On the longitudinal spin current induced by a temperature gradient in a ferromagnetic insulator,"Based on the solution of the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation +discretized for a ferromagnetic chain subject to a uniform temperature +gradient, we present a detailed numerical study of the spin dynamics with a +focus particularly on finite-size effects. We calculate and analyze the net +longitudinal spin current for various temperature gradients, chain lengths, and +external static magnetic fields. In addition, we model an interface formed by a +nonuniformly magnetized finite-size ferromagnetic insulator and a normal metal +and inspect the effects of enhanced Gilbert damping on the formation of the +space-dependent spin current within the chain. A particular aim of this study +is the inspection of the spin Seebeck effect beyond the linear response regime. +We find that within our model the microscopic mechanism of the spin Seebeck +current is the magnon accumulation effect quantified in terms of the exchange +spin torque. According to our results, this effect drives the spin Seebeck +current even in the absence of a deviation between the magnon and phonon +temperature profiles. Our theoretical findings are in line with the recently +observed experimental results by M. Agrawal et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, +107204 (2013).",1402.6899v1 +2015-01-19,Effect of Exchange Interaction on Magnetic Thermal Fluctuation and Spin Susceptibility,"The expression of the thermal fluctuation parameter in the stochastic +Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation has been derived from a fundamental quantum +theory of spins and phonons, in which the exchange interaction between nearest +atoms has been included. Our studies show that the thermal fluctuation +decreases exponentially with increasing exchange interaction. The non-uniform +fluctuation of local spins make the spin susceptibility much different from the +result derived by the macro-spin model or single spin model. The related spin +susceptibility depends not only on the strength of exchange interaction, but +also on the lattice structure. The non-uniform fluctuation can lead to an extra +broadening of the resonance line width along with the broadening arisen from +the Gilbert damping.",1501.04503v2 +2015-07-23,Nanomagnet coupled to quantum spin Hall edge: An adiabatic quantum motor,"The precessing magnetization of a magnetic islands coupled to a quantum spin +Hall edge pumps charge along the edge. Conversely, a bias voltage applied to +the edge makes the magnetization precess. We point out that this device +realizes an adiabatic quantum motor and discuss the efficiency of its operation +based on a scattering matrix approach akin to Landauer-B""uttiker theory. +Scattering theory provides a microscopic derivation of the +Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation for the magnetization dynamics of the device, +including spin-transfer torque, Gilbert damping, and Langevin torque. We find +that the device can be viewed as a Thouless motor, attaining unit efficiency +when the chemical potential of the edge states falls into the +magnetization-induced gap. For more general parameters, we characterize the +device by means of a figure of merit analogous to the ZT value in +thermoelectrics.",1507.06505v2 +2017-03-28,Temperature dependent magnetic damping of yttrium iron garnet spheres,"We investigate the temperature dependent microwave absorption spectrum of an +yttrium iron garnet sphere as a function of temperature (5 K to 300 K) and +frequency (3 GHz to 43.5 GHz). At temperatures above 100 K, the magnetic +resonance linewidth increases linearly with temperature and shows a +Gilbert-like linear frequency dependence. At lower temperatures, the +temperature dependence of the resonance linewidth at constant external magnetic +fields exhibits a characteristic peak which coincides with a non-Gilbert-like +frequency dependence. The complete temperature and frequency evolution of the +linewidth can be modeled by the phenomenology of slowly relaxing rare-earth +impurities and either the Kasuya-LeCraw mechanism or the scattering with +optical magnons. Furthermore, we extract the temperature dependence of the +saturation magnetization, the magnetic anisotropy and the g-factor.",1703.09444v2 +2017-12-10,Magnetic field gradient driven dynamics of isolated skyrmions and antiskyrmions in frustrated magnets,"The study of skyrmion/antiskyrmion motion in magnetic materials is very +important in particular for the spintronics applications. In this work, we +study the dynamics of isolated skyrmions and antiskyrmions in frustrated +magnets driven by magnetic field gradient, using the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert +simulations on the frustrated classical Heisenberg model on the triangular +lattice. A Hall-like motion induced by the gradient is revealed in bulk system, +similar to that in the well-studied chiral magnets. More interestingly, our +work suggests that the lateral confinement in nano-stripes of the frustrated +system can completely suppress the Hall motion and significantly speed up the +motion along the gradient direction. The simulated results are well explained +by the Thiele theory. It is demonstrated that the acceleration of the motion is +mainly determined by the Gilbert damping constant, which provides useful +information for finding potential materials for skyrmion-based spintronics.",1712.03550v1 +2018-02-28,Roles of chiral renormalization on magnetization dynamics in chiral magnets,"In metallic ferromagnets, the interaction between local magnetic moments and +conduction electrons renormalizes parameters of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert +equation such as the gyromagnetic ratio and the Gilbert damping, and makes them +dependent on the magnetic configurations. Although the effects of the +renormalization for nonchiral ferromagnets are usually minor and hardly +detectable, we show that the renormalization does play a crucial role for +chiral magnets. Here the renormalization is chiral and as such we predict +experimentally identifiable effects on the phenomenology of magnetization +dynamics. In particular, our theory for the self-consistent magnetization +dynamics of chiral magnets allows for a concise interpretation of domain wall +creep motion. We also argue that the conventional creep theory of the domain +wall motion, which assumes Markovian dynamics, needs critical reexamination +since the gyromagnetic ratio makes the motion non-Markovian. The non-Markovian +nature of the domain wall dynamics is experimentally checkable by the chirality +of the renormalization.",1803.00017v2 +2018-12-20,Laser Controlled Spin Dynamics of Ferromagnetic Thin Film from Femtosecond to Nanosecond Timescale,"Laser induced modulation of the magnetization dynamics occurring over various +time-scales have been unified here for a Ni80Fe20 thin film excited by +amplified femtosecond laser pulses. The weak correlation between +demagnetization time and pump fluence with substantial enhancement in +remagnetization time is demonstrated using three-temperature model considering +the temperatures of electron, spin and lattice. The picosecond magnetization +dynamics is modeled using the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. With increasing +pump fluence the Gilbert damping parameter shows significant enhancement from +its intrinsic value due to increment in the ratio of electronic temperature to +Curie temperature within very short time scale. The precessional frequency +experiences noticeable red shift with increasing pump fluence. The changes in +the local magnetic properties due to accumulation and dissipation of thermal +energy within the probed volume are described by the evolution of temporal +chirp parameter in a comprehensive manner. A unification of ultrafast magnetic +processes and its control over broad timescale would enable the integration of +various magnetic processes in a single device and use one effect to control +another.",1812.08404v1 +2019-03-13,Higher-order linearly implicit full discretization of the Landau--Lifshitz--Gilbert equation,"For the Landau--Lifshitz--Gilbert (LLG) equation of micromagnetics we study +linearly implicit backward difference formula (BDF) time discretizations up to +order $5$ combined with higher-order non-conforming finite element space +discretizations, which are based on the weak formulation due to Alouges but use +approximate tangent spaces that are defined by $L^2$-averaged instead of nodal +orthogonality constraints. We prove stability and optimal-order error bounds in +the situation of a sufficiently regular solution. For the BDF methods of orders +$3$ to~$5$, this requires %a mild time step restriction $\tau \leqslant ch$ and +that the damping parameter in the LLG equations be above a positive threshold; +this condition is not needed for the A-stable methods of orders $1$ and $2$, +for which furthermore a discrete energy inequality irrespective of solution +regularity is proved.",1903.05415v2 +2019-12-01,Coarse-graining in micromagnetic simulations of dynamic hysteresis loops,"Micromagnetic simulations based on the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert +equation are used to calculate dynamic magnetic hysteresis loops relevant to +magnetic hyperthermia. With the goal to effectively simulate room-temperature +loops for large iron-oxide-based systems at relatively slow sweep rates on the +order of 1 Oe/ns or less, a previously derived renormalization group approach +for coarse-graining (Grinstein and Koch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 20, 207201, 2003) is +modified and applied to calculating loops for a magnetite nanorod. The nanorod +modelled is the building block for larger nanoparticles that were employed in +preclinical studies (Dennis et al., Nanotechnology 20, 395103, 2009). The +scaling algorithm is shown to produce nearly identical loops over several +decades in the model grain size. Sweep-rate scaling involving the Gilbert +damping parameter is also demonstrated to allow orders of magnitude speed-up of +the loop calculations.",1912.00310v3 +2020-02-17,Self-similar shrinkers of the one-dimensional Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation,"The main purpose of this paper is the analytical study of self-shrinker +solutions of the one-dimensional Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation (LLG), a +model describing the dynamics for the spin in ferromagnetic materials. We show +that there is a unique smooth family of backward self-similar solutions to the +LLG equation, up to symmetries, and we establish their asymptotics. Moreover, +we obtain that in the presence of damping, the trajectories of the self-similar +profiles converge to great circles on the sphere $\mathbb{S}^2$, at an +exponential rate. In particular, the results presented in this paper provide +examples of blow-up in finite time, where the singularity develops due to rapid +oscillations forming limit circles.",2002.06858v2 +2021-02-20,Fast magnetization reversal of a magnetic nanoparticle induced by cosine chirp microwave field pulse,"We investigate the magnetization reversal of single-domain magnetic +nanoparticle driven by the circularly polarized cosine chirp microwave pulse +(CCMP). The numerical findings, based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, +reveal that the CCMP is by itself capable of driving fast and energy-efficient +magnetization reversal. The microwave field amplitude and initial frequency +required by a CCMP are much smaller than that of the linear down-chirp +microwave pulse. This is achieved as the frequency change of the CCMP closely +matches the frequency change of the magnetization precession which leads to an +efficient stimulated microwave energy absorption (emission) by (from) the +magnetic particle before (after) it crosses over the energy barrier. We further +find that the enhancement of easy-plane shape anisotropy significantly reduces +the required microwave amplitude and the initial frequency of CCMP. We also +find that there is an optimal Gilbert damping for fast magnetization reversal. +These findings may provide a pathway to realize the fast and low-cost memory +device.",2102.10394v2 +2021-07-24,Electron-Phonon Scattering governs both Ultrafast and Precessional Magnetization Dynamics in Co-Fe Alloys,"Recent investigations have advanced the understanding of how +structure-property relationships in ferromagnetic metal alloys affect the +magnetization dynamics on nanosecond time-scales. A similar understanding for +magnetization dynamics on femto- to pico-second time-scales does not yet exist. +To address this, we perform time-resolved magneto optic Kerr effect (TRMOKE) +measurements of magnetization dynamics in Co-Fe alloys on femto- to nano-second +regimes. We show that Co-Fe compositions that exhibit low Gilbert damping +parameters also feature prolonged ultrafast demagnetization upon +photoexcitation. We analyze our experimental TR-MOKE data with the +three-temperature-model (3TM) and the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. These +analyses reveal a strong compositional dependence of the dynamics across all +time-scales on the strength of electron-phonon interactions. Our findings are +beneficial to the spintronics and magnonics community, and will aid in the +quest for energy-efficient magnetic storage applications.",2107.11699v1 +2022-09-07,Convergence analysis of an implicit finite difference method for the inertial Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation,"The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation is a widely used model for fast +magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic materials. Recently, the inertial LLG +equation, which contains an inertial term, has been proposed to capture the +ultra-fast magnetization dynamics at the sub-picosecond timescale. +Mathematically, this generalized model contains the first temporal derivative +and a newly introduced second temporal derivative of magnetization. +Consequently, it produces extra difficulties in numerical analysis due to the +mixed hyperbolic-parabolic type of this equation with degeneracy. In this work, +we propose an implicit finite difference scheme based on the central difference +in both time and space. A fixed point iteration method is applied to solve the +implicit nonlinear system. With the help of a second order accurate constructed +solution, we provide a convergence analysis in $H^1$ for this numerical scheme, +in the $\ell^\infty (0, T; H_h^1)$ norm. It is shown that the proposed method +is second order accurate in both time and space, with unconditional stability +and a natural preservation of the magnetization length. In the hyperbolic +regime, significant damping wave behaviors of magnetization at a shorter +timescale are observed through numerical simulations.",2209.02914v2 +2022-09-16,Pseudo-PT symmetric Dirac equation : effect of a new mean spin angular momentum operator on Gilbert damping,"The pseudo-PT symmetric Dirac equation is proposed and analyzed by using a +non-unitary Foldy-Wouthuysen transformations. A new spin operator PT symmetric +expectation value (called the mean spin operator) for an electron interacting +with a time-dependent electromagnetic field is obtained. We show that spin +magnetization - which is the quantity usually measured experimentally - is not +described by the standard spin operator but by this new mean spin operator to +properly describe magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic materials and the +corresponding equation of motion is compatible with the phenomenological model +of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation (LLG).",2209.07908v1 +2022-11-15,Nonlinear sub-switching regime of magnetization dynamics in photo-magnetic garnets,"We analyze, both experimentally and numerically, the nonlinear regime of the +photo-induced coherent magnetization dynamics in cobalt-doped yttrium iron +garnet films. Photo-magnetic excitation with femtosecond laser pulses reveals a +strongly nonlinear response of the spin subsystem with a significant increase +of the effective Gilbert damping. By varying both laser fluence and the +external magnetic field, we show that this nonlinearity originates in the +anharmonicity of the magnetic energy landscape. We numerically map the +parameter workspace for the nonlinear photo-induced spin dynamics below the +photo-magnetic switching threshold. Corroborated by numerical simulations of +the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, our results highlight the key role of the +cubic symmetry of the magnetic subsystem in reaching the nonlinear spin +precession regime. These findings expand the fundamental understanding of +laser-induced nonlinear spin dynamics as well as facilitate the development of +applied photo-magnetism.",2211.08048v2 +2023-08-16,Discovery and regulation of chiral magnetic solitons: Exact solution from Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation,"The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation has emerged as a fundamental and +indispensable framework within the realm of magnetism. However, solving the LLG +equation, encompassing full nonlinearity amidst intricate complexities, +presents formidable challenges. In this context, we develop a precise mapping +through geometric representation, establishing a direct linkage between the LLG +equation and an integrable generalized nonlinear Schr\""odinger equation. This +novel mapping provides accessibility towards acquiring a great number of exact +spatiotemporal solutions. Notably, exact chiral magnetic solitons, critical for +stability and controllability in propagation with and without damping effects +are discovered. Our formulation provides exact solutions for the long-standing +fully nonlinear problem, facilitating practical control through spin current +injection in magnetic memory applications.",2308.08331v1 +1997-07-20,Effects of gluon damping rate on the viscosity coefficient of the quark-gluon plasma at finite chemical potential,"By considering the Debye screening and damping rate of gluons, the viscosity +coefficient of the quark-gluon plasma was evaluated via real-time finite +temperature QCD in the relaxation time approximation at finite temperature and +chemical potential . The results show that both the damping rate and the +chemical potential cause considerable enhancements to the viscosity coefficient +of hot dense quark-gluon plasma.",9707033v1 +2015-07-04,Comments on turbulence theory by Qian and by Edwards and McComb,"We reexamine Liouville equation based turbulence theories proposed by Qian +{[}Phys. Fluids \textbf{26}, 2098 (1983){]} and Edwards and McComb {[}J. Phys. +A: Math. Gen. \textbf{2}, 157 (1969){]}, which are compatible with Kolmogorov +spectrum. These theories obtained identical equation for spectral density +$q(k)$ and different results for damping coefficient. Qian proposed variational +approach and Edwards and McComb proposed maximal entropy principle to obtain +equation for the damping coefficient. We show that assumptions used in these +theories to obtain damping coefficient correspond to unphysical conditions.",1507.01124v1 +2018-10-14,Critical exponent for nonlinear damped wave equations with non-negative potential in 3D,"We are studying possible interaction of damping coefficients in the +subprincipal part of the linear 3D wave equation and their impact on the +critical exponent of the corresponding nonlinear Cauchy problem with small +initial data. The main new phenomena is that certain relation between these +coefficients may cause very strong jump of the critical Strauss exponent in 3D +to the critical 5D Strauss exponent for the wave equation without damping +coefficients.",1810.05956v1 +2021-01-23,Oscillation time and damping coefficients in a nonlinear pendulum,"We establish a relationship between the normalized damping coefficients and +the time that takes a nonlinear pendulum to complete one oscillation starting +from an initial position with vanishing velocity. We establish some conditions +on the nonlinear restitution force so that this oscillation time does not +depend monotonically on the viscosity damping coefficient.",2101.09400v2 +2024-03-26,On a class of nonautonomous quasilinear systems with general time-gradually-degenerate damping,"In this paper, we study two systems with a time-variable coefficient and +general time-gradually-degenerate damping. More explicitly, we construct the +Riemann solutions to the time-variable coefficient Zeldovich approximation and +time-variable coefficient pressureless gas systems both with general +time-gradually-degenerate damping. Applying the method of similar variables and +nonlinear viscosity, we obtain classical Riemann solutions and delta shock wave +solutions.",2403.17732v1 +2013-11-14,The dimension of the leafwise reduced cohomology,"Geometric conditions are given so that the leafwise reduced cohomology is of +infinite dimension, specially for foliations with dense leaves on closed +manifolds. The main new definition involved is the intersection number of +subfoliations with ""appropriate coefficients"". The leafwise reduced cohomology +is also described for homogeneous foliations with dense leaves on closed +nilmanifolds.",1311.3518v1 +2002-12-05,Dynamic stiffness of spin valves,"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 in the magnetization precession and +switching. We find a (low-temperature) critical current bias for a coherent +current-induced magnetization excitation in spin valves, which unifies and +generalizes previous ideas of Slonczewski and Berger. In the absence of an +applied bias, the effect of the spin transfer can be expressed as +magnetic--configuration-dependent Gilbert damping.",0212130v2 +2005-01-13,Magnetization noise in magnetoelectronic nanostructures,"By scattering theory we show that spin current noise in normal electric +conductors in contact with nanoscale ferromagnets increases the magnetization +noise by means of a fluctuating spin-transfer torque. Johnson-Nyquist noise in +the spin current is related to the increased Gilbert damping due to spin +pumping, in accordance with the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. Spin current +shot noise in the presence of an applied bias is the dominant contribution to +the magnetization noise at low temperatures.",0501318v1 +2005-01-27,Current-induced macrospin vs spin-wave excitations in spin valves,"The mode dependence of current-induced magnetic excitations in spin valves is +studied theoretically. The torque exerted on the magnetization by transverse +spin currents as well as the Gilbert damping constant are found to depend +strongly on the wave length of the excitation (spin wave). Analytic expressions +are presented for the critical currents that excite a selected spin wave. The +onset of macrospin (zero wavelength) vs finite wavelength instabilities depends +on the device parameters and the current direction, in agreement with recent +experimental findings.",0501672v3 +2006-05-08,Microscopic Calculation of Spin Torques in Disordered Ferromagnets,"Effects of conduction electrons on magnetization dynamics, represented by +spin torques, are calculated microscopically in the first order in spatial +gradient and time derivative of magnetization. Special attention is paid to the +so-called $\beta$-term and the Gilbert damping, $\alpha$, in the presence of +electrons' spin-relaxation processes, which are modeled by quenched magnetic +(and spin-orbit) impurities. The obtained results such as $\alpha \ne \beta$ +hold for localized as well as itinerant ferromagnetism.",0605186v1 +2006-11-27,Microscopic Calculation of Spin Torques and Forces,"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 \beta-term and the Gilbert damping, \alpha, in the presence of +electrons' spin-relaxation processes, which are modeled by quenched magnetic +impurities. Two types of forces that the electric/spin current exerts on +magnetization are identified based on a general formula relating the force to +the torque.",0611669v1 +2007-10-15,Ferromagnetic resonance study of polycrystalline Fe_{1-x}V_x alloy thin films,"Ferromagnetic resonance has been used to study the magnetic properties and +magnetization dynamics of polycrystalline Fe$_{1-x}$V$_{x}$ alloy films with +$0\leq x < 0.7$. Films were produced by co-sputtering from separate Fe and V +targets, leading to a composition gradient across a Si substrate. FMR studies +were conducted at room temperature with a broadband coplanar waveguide at +frequencies up to 50 GHz using the flip-chip method. The effective +demagnetization field $4 \pi M_{\mathrm{eff}}$ and the Gilbert damping +parameter $\alpha$ have been determined as a function of V concentration. The +results are compared to those of epitaxial FeV films.",0710.2826v2 +2008-10-25,The domain wall spin torque-meter,"We report the direct measurement of the non-adiabatic component of the +spin-torque in domain walls. Our method is independent of both the pinning of +the domain wall in the wire as well as of the Gilbert damping parameter. We +demonstrate that the ratio between the non-adiabatic and the adiabatic +components can be as high as 1, and explain this high value by the importance +of the spin-flip rate to the non-adiabatic torque. Besides their fundamental +significance these results open the way for applications by demonstrating a +significant increase of the spin torque efficiency.",0810.4633v1 +2008-12-03,Observation of ferromagnetic resonance in strontium ruthenate (SrRuO3),"We report the observation of ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) in SrRuO3 using +the time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect. The FMR oscillations in the +time-domain appear in response to a sudden, optically induced change in the +direction of easy-axis anistropy. The high FMR frequency, 250 GHz, and large +Gilbert damping parameter, alpha ~ 1, are consistent with strong spin-orbit +coupling. We find that the parameters associated with the magnetization +dynamics, including alpha, have a non-monotonic temperature dependence, +suggestive of a link to the anomalous Hall effect.",0812.0832v1 +2011-02-26,Dynamics of Skyrmion Crystals in Metallic Thin Films,"We study the collective dynamics of the Skyrmion crystal (SkX) in thin films +of ferromagnetic metals resulting from the nontrivial Skyrmion topology. We +show that the current-driven motion of the crystal reduces the topological Hall +effect and the Skyrmion trajectories bend away from the direction of the +electric current (the Skyrmion Hall effect). We find a new dissipation +mechanism in non-collinear spin textures that can lead to a much faster spin +relaxation than Gilbert damping, calculate the dispersion of phonons in the +SkX, and discuss effects of impurity pinning of Skyrmions.",1102.5384v2 +2011-04-15,Lagrangian approach and dissipative magnetic systems,"A Lagrangian is introduced which includes the coupling between magnetic +moments $\mathbf{m}$ and the degrees of freedom $\boldsymbol{\sigma}$ of a +reservoir. In case the system-reservoir coupling breaks the time reversal +symmetry the magnetic moments perform a damped precession around an effective +field which is self-organized by the mutual interaction of the moments. The +resulting evolution equation has the form of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert +equation. In case the bath variables are constant vector fields the moments +$\mathbf{m}$ fulfill the reversible Landau-Lifshitz equation. Applying +Noether's theorem we find conserved quantities under rotation in space and +within the configuration space of the moments.",1104.3002v1 +2011-07-04,Minimization of the Switching Time of a Synthetic Free Layer in Thermally Assisted Spin Torque Switching,"We theoretically studied the thermally assisted spin torque switching of a +synthetic free layer and showed that the switching time is minimized if the +condition H_J=|H_s|/(2 alpha) is satisfied, where H_J, H_s and alpha are the +coupling field of two ferromagnetic layers, the amplitude of the spin torque, +and the Gilbert damping constant. We also showed that the coupling field of the +synthetic free layer can be determined from the resonance frequencies of the +spin-torque diode effect.",1107.0753v2 +2012-09-14,Skyrmion Dynamics in Multiferroic Insulator,"Recent discovery of Skyrmion crystal phase in insulating multiferroic +compound Cu$_2$OSeO$_3$ calls for new ways and ideas to manipulate the +Skyrmions in the absence of spin transfer torque from the conduction electrons. +It is shown here that the position-dependent electric field, pointed along the +direction of the average induced dipole moment of the Skyrmion, can induce the +Hall motion of Skyrmion with its velocity orthogonal to the field gradient. +Finite Gilbert damping produces longitudinal motion. We find a rich variety of +resonance modes excited by a.c. electric field.",1209.3120v1 +2013-03-12,Thermally excited spin waves in a nano-structure: thermal gradient vs. constant temperature,"Using micromagnetic simulations, we have investigated spin dynamics in a +nanostructure in the presence of thermal fluctuations. In particular, we have +studied the effects of a uniform temperature and of a uniform thermal gradient. +In both cases, the stochastic field leads to an increase of the precession +angle of the magnetization, and to a mild decreas of the linewidth of the +resonance peaks. Our results indicate that the Gilbert damping parameter plays +the role of control parameter for the amplification of spin waves.",1303.2895v1 +2013-07-29,Theoretical Study of Spin-Torque Oscillator with Perpendicularly Magnetized Free Layer,"The magnetization dynamics of spin torque oscillator (STO) consisting of a +perpendicularly magnetized free layer and an in-plane magnetized pinned layer +was studied by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. We derived the +analytical formula of the relation between the current and the oscillation +frequency of the STO by analyzing the energy balance between the work done by +the spin torque and the energy dissipation due to the damping. We also found +that the field-like torque breaks the energy balance, and change the +oscillation frequency.",1307.7427v1 +2014-06-10,Influence of Ta insertions on the magnetic properties of MgO/CoFeB/MgO films probed by ferromagnetic resonance,"We show by vector network analyzer ferromagnetic resonance measurements that +low Gilbert damping {\alpha} down to 0.006 can be achieved in perpendicularly +magnetized MgO/CoFeB/MgO thin films with ultra-thin insertions of Ta in the +CoFeB layer. While increasing the number of Ta insertions allows thicker CoFeB +layers to remain perpendicular, the effective areal magnetic anisotropy does +not improve with more insertions, and also comes with an increase in {\alpha}.",1406.2491v2 +2014-09-24,Dissipationless Multiferroic Magnonics,"We propose that the magnetoelectric effect in multiferroic insulators with +coplanar antiferromagnetic spiral order, such as BiFeO$_{3}$, enables +electrically controlled dissipationless magnonics. Applying an oscillating +electric field in these materials with frequency as low as household frequency +can activate Goldstone modes that manifests fast planar rotations of spins, +whose motion is not obstructed by crystalline anisotropy. Combining with spin +ejection mechanisms, such a fast planar rotation can deliver electricity at +room temperature over a distance of the magnetic domain, which is free from the +energy loss due to Gilbert damping.",1409.6900v2 +2015-02-09,Large amplitude oscillation of magnetization in spin-torque oscillator stabilized by field-like torque,"Oscillation frequency of spin torque oscillator with a perpendicularly +magnetized free layer and an in-plane magnetized pinned layer is theoretically +investigated by taking into account the field-like torque. It is shown that the +field-like torque plays an important role in finding the balance between the +energy supplied by the spin torque and the dissipation due to the damping, +which results in a steady precession. The validity of the developed theory is +confirmed by performing numerical simulations based on the +Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation.",1502.02699v1 +2015-07-24,Boosting Domain Wall Propagation by Notches,"We report a counter-intuitive finding that notches in an otherwise +homogeneous magnetic nanowire can boost current-induced domain wall (DW) +propagation. DW motion in notch-modulated wires can be classified into three +phases: 1) A DW is pinned around a notch when the current density is below the +depinning current density. 2) DW propagation velocity is boosted by notches +above the depinning current density and when non-adiabatic spin-transfer torque +strength $\beta$ is smaller than the Gilbert damping constant $\alpha$. The +boost can be manyfold. 3) DW propagation velocity is hindered when $\beta > +\alpha$. The results are explained by using the Thiele equation.",1507.06748v1 +2016-01-23,Nonlinear magnetization dynamics of antiferromagnetic spin resonance induced by intense terahertz magnetic field,"We report on the nonlinear magnetization dynamics of a HoFeO3 crystal induced +by a strong terahertz magnetic field resonantly enhanced with a split ring +resonator and measured with magneto-optical Kerr effect microscopy. The +terahertz magnetic field induces a large change (~40%) in the spontaneous +magnetization. The frequency of the antiferromagnetic resonance decreases in +proportion to the square of the magnetization change. A modified +Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with a phenomenological nonlinear damping term +quantitatively reproduced the nonlinear dynamics.",1601.06213v1 +2017-08-11,Gradient expansion formalism for generic spin torques,"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 +small-amplitude formalism or no difficulty in the SU($2$) gauge transformation +formalism. As a representative, we calculate the spin renormalization, Gilbert +damping, spin-transfer torque, and $\beta$-term in a three-dimensional +ferromagnetic metal with nonmagnetic and magnetic impurities being taken into +account within the self-consistent Born approximation. Our results serve as a +first-principles formalism for spin torques.",1708.03424v1 +2019-06-03,Magnon-phonon interactions in magnetic insulators,"We address the theory of magnon-phonon interactions and compute the +corresponding quasi-particle and transport lifetimes in magnetic insulators +with focus on yttrium iron garnet at intermediate temperatures from anisotropy- +and exchange-mediated magnon-phonon interactions, the latter being derived from +the volume dependence of the Curie temperature. We find in general weak effects +of phonon scattering on magnon transport and the Gilbert damping of the +macrospin Kittel mode. The magnon transport lifetime differs from the +quasi-particle lifetime at shorter wavelengths.",1906.01042v1 +2019-09-17,Microwave induced tunable subharmonic steps in superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor Josephson junction,"We investigate the coupling between ferromagnet and superconducting phase +dynamics in superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor Josephson junction. The +current-voltage characteristics of the junction demonstrate a pattern of +subharmonic current steps which forms a devil's staircase structure. We show +that a width of the steps becomes maximal at ferromagnetic resonance. Moreover, +we demonstrate that the structure of the steps and their widths can be tuned by +changing the frequency of the external magnetic field, ratio of Josephson to +magnetic energy, Gilbert damping and the junction size.",1909.08004v1 +2019-09-19,Magnetization dynamics of the compensated ferrimagnet $Mn_{2}Ru_{x}Ga$,"Here we study both static and time-resolved dynamic magnetic properties of +the compensated ferrimagnet from room temperature down to 10K, thus crossing +the magnetic compensation temperature $T_{M}$. The behaviour is analysed with a +model of a simple collinear ferrimagnet with uniaxial anisotropy and +site-specific gyromagnetic ratios. We find a maximum zero-applied-field +resonance frequency of $\sim$160GHz and a low intrinsic Gilbert damping +$\alpha$$\sim$0.02, making it a very attractive candidate for various +spintronic applications.",1909.09085v1 +2019-11-28,Transport properties of spin superfluids: comparing easy-plane ferro- and antiferromagnets,"We present a study on spin-superfluid transport based on an atomistic, +classical spin model. Easy-plane ferro- as well as antiferromagnets are +considered, which allows for a direct comparison of these two material classes +based on the same model assumptions. We find a spin-superfluid transport which +is robust against variations of the boundary conditions, thermal fluctuations, +and dissipation modeled via Gilbert damping. Though the spin accumulations is +smaller for antiferromagnets the range of the spin-superfluid transport turns +out to be identical for ferro- and antiferromagnets. Finally, we calculate and +explore the role of the driving frequency and especially the critical +frequency, where phase slips occur and the spin accumulation breaks down.",1911.12786v1 +2020-01-17,Fermi Level Controlled Ultrafast Demagnetization Mechanism in Half-Metallic Heusler Alloy,"The electronic band structure-controlled ultrafast demagnetization mechanism +in Co2FexMn1-xSi Heusler alloy is underpinned by systematic variation of +composition. We find the spin-flip scattering rate controlled by spin density +of states at Fermi level is responsible for non-monotonic variation of +ultrafast demagnetization time ({\tau}M) with x with a maximum at x = 0.4. +Furthermore, Gilbert damping constant exhibits an inverse relationship with +{\tau}M due to the dominance of inter-band scattering mechanism. This +establishes a unified mechanism of ultrafast spin dynamics based on Fermi level +position.",2001.06217v1 +2020-04-17,Collective coordinate study of spin wave emission from dynamic domain wall,"We study theoretically the spin wave emission from a moving domain wall in a +ferromagnet. Introducing a deformation mode describing a modulation of the wall +thickness in the collective coordinate description, we show that thickness +variation couples to the spin wave linearly and induces spin wave emission. The +dominant emitted spin wave turns out to be polarized in the out-of wall plane +($\phi$)-direction. The emission contributes to the Gilbert damping parameter +proportional to $\hbar\omega_\phi/K$, the ratio of the angular frequency +$\omega_\phi$ of $\phi$ and the easy-axis anisotropy energy $K$.",2004.08082v1 +2021-03-10,Anisotropic superconducting spin transport at magnetic interfaces,"We present a theoretical investigation of anisotropic superconducting spin +transport at a magnetic interface between a p-wave superconductor and a +ferromagnetic insulator. Our formulation describes the ferromagnetic resonance +modulations due to spin current generation depending on spin-triplet Cooper +pair, including the frequency shift and enhanced Gilbert damping, in a unified +manner. We find that the Cooper pair symmetry is detectable from the +qualitative behavior of the ferromagnetic resonance modulation. Our theory +paves the way toward anisotropic superconducting spintronics.",2103.05871v3 +2022-01-16,Ferromagnetic resonance modulation in $d$-wave superconductor/ferromagnetic insulator bilayer systems,"We investigate ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) modulation in $d$-wave +superconductor (SC)/ferromagnetic insulator (FI) bilayer systems theoretically. +The modulation of the Gilbert damping in these systems reflects the existence +of nodes in the $d$-wave SC and shows power-law decay characteristics within +the low-temperature and low-frequency limit. Our results indicate the +effectiveness of use of spin pumping as a probe technique to determine the +symmetry of unconventional SCs with high sensitivity for nanoscale thin films.",2201.06060v2 +2022-09-28,Unidirectional magnetic coupling,"We show that interlayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in combination with +non-local Gilbert damping gives rise to unidirectional magnetic coupling. That +is, the coupling between two magnetic layers -- say the left and right layer -- +is such that dynamics of the left layer leads to dynamics of the right layer, +but not vice versa. We discuss the implications of this result for the magnetic +susceptibility of a magnetic bilayer, electrically-actuated spin-current +transmission, and unidirectional spin-wave packet generation and propagation. +Our results may enable a route towards spin-current and spin-wave diodes and +further pave the way to design spintronic devices via reservoir engineering.",2209.14179v1 +2023-08-11,Dynamical Majorana Ising spin response in a topological superconductor-magnet hybrid by microwave irradiation,"We study a dynamical spin response of surface Majorana modes in a topological +superconductor-magnet hybrid under microwave irradiation. We find a method to +toggle between dissipative and non-dissipative Majorana Ising spin dynamics by +adjusting the external magnetic field angle and the microwave frequency. This +reflects the topological nature of the Majorana modes, enhancing the Gilbert +damping of the magnet, thereby, providing a detection method for the Majorana +Ising spins. Our findings illuminate a magnetic probe for Majorana modes, +paving the path to innovative spin devices.",2308.05955v2 +2012-10-25,Decay rates for the damped wave equation on the torus,"We address the decay rates of the energy for the damped wave equation when +the damping coefficient $b$ does not satisfy the Geometric Control Condition +(GCC). First, we give a link with the controllability of the associated +Schr\""odinger equation. We prove in an abstract setting that the observability +of the Schr\""odinger group implies that the semigroup associated to the damped +wave equation decays at rate $1/\sqrt{t}$ (which is a stronger rate than the +general logarithmic one predicted by the Lebeau Theorem). + Second, we focus on the 2-dimensional torus. We prove that the best decay one +can expect is $1/t$, as soon as the damping region does not satisfy GCC. +Conversely, for smooth damping coefficients $b$, we show that the semigroup +decays at rate $1/t^{1-\eps}$, for all $\eps >0$. The proof relies on a second +microlocalization around trapped directions, and resolvent estimates. + In the case where the damping coefficient is a characteristic function of a +strip (hence discontinuous), St\'{e}phane Nonnenmacher computes in an appendix +part of the spectrum of the associated damped wave operator, proving that the +semigroup cannot decay faster than $1/t^{2/3}$. In particular, our study shows +that the decay rate highly depends on the way $b$ vanishes.",1210.6879v1 +2006-10-04,On the dynamics of spin systems in the Landau-Lifshitz theory,"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 structures, and many types of effective fields the dynamics of the spin +precession around this ground state is considered. + At first the precession is treated in the linear approximation. For the +eigenmodes of the precession one has a `rule of geometric mean' for the +eigenfrequencies. For the eigenmodes pseudo-orthogonality relations are +obtained, which reflect the gyrotropic and elliptic character of the spin +precession and differ from those known from the Schrodinger equation. Moreover, +pseudo-orthogonality relations are valid 'everywhere' (e.g., both in the outer +region and in the core region of a magnetic vortex). + Then also some aspects of the nonlinear mode coupling with emphasis on +`confluence' and `splitting' processes of elementary magnetic spin-wave +excitations are considered. At the same time these processes contribute to the +Gilbert damping. + There are thus essential differences to quantum mechanics, although at a +first glance one discovers many similarities. From the results one may also get +insights of why these systems are so complex that (although the essential +quantities depend only on the local values of the partially long-ranged +effective magnetic fields) practically only detailed experiments and computer +simulations make sense.",0610122v4 +2016-04-26,First principles studies of the Gilbert damping and exchange interactions for half-metallic Heuslers alloys,"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 +half-metallic. In the following, a systematic study of the magnetic properties +of three different Heusler families $\textrm{Co}_2\textrm{Mn}\textrm{Z}$, +$\text{Co}_2\text{Fe}\text{Z}$ and $\textrm{Mn}_2\textrm{V}\textrm{Z}$ with +$\text{Z}=\left(\text{Al, Si, Ga, Ge}\right)$ is performed. A key aspect is the +determination of the Gilbert damping from first principles calculations, with +special focus on the role played by different approximations, the effect that +substitutional disorder and temperature effects. Heisenberg exchange +interactions and critical temperature for the alloys are also calculated as +well as magnon dispersion relations for representative systems, the +ferromagnetic $\textrm{Co}_2\textrm{Fe}\textrm{Si}$ and the ferrimagnetic +$\textrm{Mn}_2\textrm{V}\textrm{Al}$. Correlations effects beyond standard +density-functional theory are treated using both the local spin density +approximation including the Hubbard $U$ and the local spin density +approximation plus dynamical mean field theory approximation, which allows to +determine if dynamical self-energy corrections can remedy some of the +inconsistencies which were previously reported for these alloys.",1604.07552v1 +2016-12-21,"Spin Pumping, Dissipation, and Direct and Alternating Inverse Spin Hall Effects in Magnetic Insulator-Normal Metal Bilayers","We theoretically consider the spin-wave mode- and wavelength-dependent +enhancement of the Gilbert damping in magnetic insulator--normal metal bilayers +due to spin pumping as well as the enhancement's relation to direct and +alternating inverse spin Hall voltages in the normal metal. In the +long-wavelength limit, including long-range dipole interactions, the ratio of +the enhancement for transverse volume modes to that of the macrospin mode is +equal to two. With an out-of-plane magnetization, this ratio decreases with +both an increasing surface anisotropic energy and mode number. If the surface +anisotropy induces a surface state, the enhancement can be an order of +magnitude larger than for to the macrospin. With an in-plane magnetization, the +induced dissipation enhancement can be understood by mapping the anisotropy +parameter to the out-of-plane case with anisotropy. For shorter wavelengths, we +compute the enhancement numerically and find good agreement with the analytical +results in the applicable limits. We also compute the induced direct- and +alternating-current inverse spin Hall voltages and relate these to the magnetic +energy stored in the ferromagnet. Because the magnitude of the direct spin Hall +voltage is a measure of spin dissipation, it is directly proportional to the +enhancement of Gilbert damping. The alternating spin Hall voltage exhibits a +similar in-plane wave-number dependence, and we demonstrate that it is greatest +for surface-localized modes.",1612.07020v2 +2019-10-29,Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in Pt/Co-based full Heusler alloy/MgO thin films structures,"Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) in ultrathin magnetic structures is a +key ingredient for the development of electrically controlled spintronic +devices. Due to their relatively large spin-polarization, high Curie +temperature and low Gilbert damping the Co-based full Heusler alloys are of +special importance from a scientific and applications point of view. Here, we +study the mechanisms responsible for the PMA in Pt/Co-based full Heusler +alloy/MgO thin films structures. We show that the ultrathin Heusler films +exhibit strong PMA even in the absence of magnetic annealing. By means of +ferromagnetic resonance experiments, we demonstrate that the effective +magnetization shows a two-regime behavior depending on the thickness of the +Heusler layers. Using Auger spectroscopy measurements, we evidence +interdiffusion at the underlayer/Heusler interface and the formation of an +interfacial CoFe-rich layer which causes the two-regime behavior. In the case +of the ultrathin films, the interfacial CoFe-rich layer promotes the strong PMA +through the electronic hybridization of the metal alloy and oxygen orbitals +across the ferromagnet/MgO interface. In addition, the interfacial CoFe-rich +layer it is also generating an increase of the Gilbert damping for the +ultrathin films beyond the spin-pumping effect. Our results illustrate that the +strong PMA is not an intrinsic property of the Heusler/MgO interface but it is +actively influenced by the interdiffusion, which can be tuned by a proper +choice of the underlayer material, as we show for the case of the Pt, Ta and Cr +underlayers.",1910.13107v1 +2020-10-15,Spin injection characteristics of Py/graphene/Pt by gigahertz and terahertz magnetization dynamics driven by femtosecond laser pulse,"Spin transport characteristics of graphene has been extensively studied so +far. The spin transport along c-axis is however reported by rather limited +number of papers. We have studied spin transport characteristics through +graphene along c-axis with permalloy(Py)/graphene(Gr)/Pt by gigahertz (GHz) and +terahertz (THz) magnetization dynamics driven by femtosecond laser pulses. The +relatively simple sample structure does not require electrodes on the sample. +The graphene layer was prepared by chemical vapor deposition and transferred on +Pt film. The quality of graphene layer was characterized by Raman microscopy. +Time resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect is used to characterize gigahertz +magnetization dynamics. Magnetization precession is clearly observed both for +Pt/Py and Pt/Gr/Py. The Gilbert damping constant of Pt/Py was 0.015, indicates +spin pumping effect from Py to Pt. The Gilbert damping constant of Pt/Gr/Py is +found to be 0.011, indicates spin injection is blocked by graphene layer. We +have also performed the measurement of THz emission for Pt/Py and Pt/Gr/Py. +While the THz emission is clearly observed for Pt/Py, a strong reduction of THz +emission is observed for Pt/Gr/Py. With these two different experiments, and +highly anisotropic resistivity of graphite, we conclude that the vertical spin +transport is strongly suppressed by the graphene layer.",2010.07694v1 +2021-03-17,Spin injection efficiency at metallic interfaces probed by THz emission spectroscopy,"Terahertz (THz) spin-to-charge conversion has become an increasingly +important process for THz pulse generation and as a tool to probe ultrafast +spin interactions at magnetic interfaces. However, its relation to traditional, +steady state, ferromagnetic resonance techniques is poorly understood. Here we +investigate nanometric trilayers of Co/X/Pt (X=Ti, Au or Au0:85W0:15) as a +function of the 'X' layer thickness, where THz emission generated by the +inverse spin Hall effect is compared to the Gilbert damping of the +ferromagnetic resonance. Through the insertion of the 'X' layer we show that +the ultrafast spin current injected in the non-magnetic layer defines a direct +spin conductance, whereas the Gilbert damping leads to an effective spin +mixing-conductance of the trilayer. Importantly, we show that these two +parameters are connected to each other and that spin-memory losses can be +modeled via an effective Hamiltonian with Rashba fields. This work highlights +that magneto-circuits concepts can be successfully extended to ultrafast +spintronic devices, as well as enhancing the understanding of spin-to-charge +conversion processes through the complementarity between ultrafast THz +spectroscopy and steady state techniques.",2103.09557v1 +2021-09-13,Control of magnetization dynamics by substrate orientation in YIG thin films,"Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) and bismuth (Bi) substituted YIG (Bi0.1Y2.9Fe5O12, +BYG) films are grown in-situ on single crystalline Gadolinium Gallium Garnet +(GGG) substrates [with (100) and (111) orientations] using pulsed laser +deposition (PLD) technique. As the orientation of the Bi-YIG film changes from +(100) to (111), the lattice constant is enhanced from 12.384 {\AA} to 12.401 +{\AA} due to orientation dependent distribution of Bi3+ ions at dodecahedral +sites in the lattice cell. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) images show smooth +film surfaces with roughness 0.308 nm in Bi-YIG (111). The change in substrate +orientation leads to the modification of Gilbert damping which, in turn, gives +rise to the enhancement of ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) line width. The best +values of Gilbert damping are found to be (0.54)*10-4, for YIG (100) and +(6.27)*10-4, for Bi-YIG (111) oriented films. Angle variation measurements of +the Hr are also performed, that shows a four-fold symmetry for the resonance +field in the (100) grown film. In addition, the value of effective +magnetization (4{\pi}Meff) and extrinsic linewidth ({\Delta}H0) are observed to +be dependent on substrate orientation. Hence PLD growth can assist +single-crystalline YIG and BYG films with a perfect interface that can be used +for spintronics and related device applications.",2109.05901v1 +2022-06-06,Probing spin dynamics of ultra-thin van der Waals magnets via photon-magnon coupling,"Layered van der Waals (vdW) magnets can maintain a magnetic order even down +to the single-layer regime and hold promise for integrated spintronic devices. +While the magnetic ground state of vdW magnets was extensively studied, key +parameters of spin dynamics, like the Gilbert damping, crucial for designing +ultra-fast spintronic devices, remains largely unexplored. Despite recent +studies by optical excitation and detection, achieving spin wave control with +microwaves is highly desirable, as modern integrated information technologies +predominantly are operated with these. The intrinsically small numbers of +spins, however, poses a major challenge to this. + Here, we present a hybrid approach to detect spin dynamics mediated by +photon-magnon coupling between high-Q superconducting resonators and ultra-thin +flakes of Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Te$_6$ (CGT) as thin as 11\,nm. We test and benchmark our +technique with 23 individual CGT flakes and extract an upper limit for the +Gilbert damping parameter. These results are crucial in designing on-chip +integrated circuits using vdW magnets and offer prospects for probing spin +dynamics of monolayer vdW magnets.",2206.02460v2 +2022-09-01,Growth parameters of Bi0.1Y2.9Fe5O12 thin films for high frequency applications,"The growth and characterization of Bismuth (Bi) substituted YIG (Bi-YIG, +Bi0.1Y2.9Fe5O12) thin films are reported. Pulsed laser deposited (PLD) films +with thicknesses ranging from 20 to 150 nm were grown on Gadolinium Gallium +Garnet substrates. Two substrate orientations of (100) and (111) were +considered. The enhanced distribution of Bi3+ ions at dodecahedral site along +(111) is observed to lead to an increment in lattice constant from 12.379 +angstrom in (100) to 12.415 angstrom in (111) oriented films. Atomic force +microscopy images showed decreasing roughness with increasing film thickness. +Compared to (100) grown films, (111) oriented films showed an increase in +ferromagnetic resonance linewidth and consequent increase in Gilbert damping. +The lowest Gilbert damping values are found to be (1.06) * 10E-4 for (100) and +(2.30) * 10E-4 for (111) oriented films with thickness of 150 nm. The observed +values of extrinsic linewidth, effective magnetization, and anisotropic field +are related to thickness of the films and substrate orientation. In addition, +the in-plane angular variation established four-fold symmetry for the (100) +deposited films unlike the case of (111) deposited films. This study prescribes +growth conditions for PLD grown single-crystalline Bi-YIG films towards desired +high frequency and magneto-optical device applications.",2209.00558v1 +2019-10-17,Modified different nonlinearities for weakly coupled systems of semilinear effectively damped waves with different time-dependent coefficients in the dissipation terms,"We prove the global existence of small data solution in all space dimension +for weakly coupled systems of semi-linear effectively damped wave, with +different time-dependent coefficients in the dissipation terms. Moreover, +nonlinearity terms $ f(t,u) $ and $ g(t,v) $ satisfying some properties of the +parabolic equation. We study the problem in several classes of regularity.",1910.07731v1 +2021-10-10,Global existence of solutions for semilinear damped wave equations with variable coefficients,"We consider the Cauchy problem for the damped wave equations with variable +coefficients a(x) having power type nonlinearity |u|^p. We discuss the global +existence of solutions for small initial data and investigate the relation +between the range of a(x) and the order p.",2110.04718v2 +2023-04-23,Decay rates for a variable-coefficient wave equation with nonlinear time-dependent damping,"In this paper, a class of variable-coefficient wave equations equipped with +time-dependent damping and the nonlinear source is considered. We show that the +total energy of the system decays to zero with an explicit and precise decay +rate estimate under different assumptions on the feedback with the help of the +method of weighted energy integral.",2304.11522v1 +2019-07-10,Determination of the damping co-efficient of electrons in optically transparent glasses at the true resonance frequency in the ultraviolet from an analysis of the Lorentz-Maxwell model of dispersion,"The Lorentz-Maxwell model of dispersion of light has been analyzed in this +paper to determine the true resonance frequency in the ultraviolet for the +electrons in optically transparent glasses and the damping coefficient at this +frequency. For this we needed the refractive indices of glass in the optical +frequency range. We argue that the true resonance condition in the absorption +region prevails when the frequency at which the absorption coefficient is +maximum is the same as the frequency at which the average energy per cycle of +the electrons is also a maximum. We have simultaneously solved the two +equations obtained from the two maxima conditions numerically to arrive at a +unique solution for the true resonance frequency and the damping coefficient at +this frequency. Assuming the damping coefficient to be constant over a small +frequency range in the absorption region, we have determined the frequencies at +which the extinction coefficient and the reflectance are maxima. These +frequencies match very well with the published data for silica glasses +available from the literature.",1907.04499v1 +2012-07-17,Asymptotic Dynamics of a Class of Coupled Oscillators Driven by White Noises,"This paper is devoted to the study of the asymptotic dynamics of a class of +coupled second order oscillators driven by white noises. It is shown that any +system of such coupled oscillators with positive damping and coupling +coefficients possesses a global random attractor. Moreover, when the damping +and the coupling coefficients are sufficiently large, the global random +attractor is a one-dimensional random horizontal curve regardless of the +strength of the noises, and the system has a rotation number, which implies +that the oscillators in the system tend to oscillate with the same frequency +eventually and therefore the so called frequency locking is successful. The +results obtained in this paper generalize many existing results on the +asymptotic dynamics for a single second order noisy oscillator to systems of +coupled second order noisy oscillators. They show that coupled damped second +order oscillators with large damping have similar asymptotic dynamics as the +limiting coupled first order oscillators as the damping goes to infinite and +also that coupled damped second order oscillators have similar asymptotic +dynamics as their proper space continuous counterparts, which are of great +practical importance.",1207.3864v1 +2020-09-22,Sharp exponential decay rates for anisotropically damped waves,"In this article, we study energy decay of the damped wave equation on compact +Riemannian manifolds where the damping coefficient is anisotropic and modeled +by a pseudodifferential operator of order zero. We prove that the energy of +solutions decays at an exponential rate if and only if the damping coefficient +satisfies an anisotropic analogue of the classical geometric control condition, +along with a unique continuation hypothesis. Furthermore, we compute an +explicit formula for the optimal decay rate in terms of the spectral abscissa +and the long-time averages of the principal symbol of the damping over +geodesics, in analogy to the work of Lebeau for the isotropic case. We also +construct genuinely anisotropic dampings which satisfy our hypotheses on the +flat torus.",2009.10832v2 +2017-02-27,Current Induced Damping of Nanosized Quantum Moments in the Presence of Spin-Orbit Interaction,"Motivated by the need to understand current-induced magnetization dynamics at +the nanoscale, we have developed a formalism, within the framework of Keldysh +Green function approach, to study the current-induced dynamics of a +ferromagnetic (FM) nanoisland overlayer on a spin-orbit-coupling (SOC) Rashba +plane. In contrast to the commonly employed classical micromagnetic LLG +simulations the magnetic moments of the FM are treated {\it quantum +mechanically}. We obtain the density matrix of the whole system consisting of +conduction electrons entangled with the local magnetic moments and calculate +the effective damping rate of the FM. We investigate two opposite limiting +regimes of FM dynamics: (1) The precessional regime where the magnetic +anisotropy energy (MAE) and precessional frequency are smaller than the +exchange interactions, and (2) The local spin-flip regime where the MAE and +precessional frequency are comparable to the exchange interactions. In the +former case, we show that due to the finite size of the FM domain, the +\textquotedblleft Gilbert damping\textquotedblright does not diverge in the +ballistic electron transport regime, in sharp contrast to Kambersky's breathing +Fermi surface theory for damping in metallic FMs. In the latter case, we show +that above a critical bias the excited conduction electrons can switch the +local spin moments resulting in demagnetization and reversal of the +magnetization. Furthermore, our calculations show that the bias-induced +antidamping efficiency in the local spin-flip regime is much higher than that +in the rotational excitation regime.",1702.08408v2 +2021-06-16,Spin-Torque-driven Terahertz Auto Oscillations in Non-Collinear Coplanar Antiferromagnets,"We theoretically and numerically study the terahertz auto oscillations in +thin-film metallic non-collinear coplanar antiferromagnets (AFMs), such as +$\mathrm{Mn_{3}Sn}$ and $\mathrm{Mn_{3}Ir}$, under the effect of anti-damping +spin-torque with spin polarization perpendicular to the plane of the film. To +obtain the order parameter dynamics in these AFMs, we solve three +Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations coupled by exchange interactions assuming +both single- and multi-domain (micromagnetics) dynamical processes. In the +limit of strong exchange interaction, the oscillatory dynamics of the order +parameter in these AFMs, which have opposite chiralities, could be mapped to +that of a linear damped-driven pendulum in the case of $\mathrm{Mn_{3}Sn}$, and +a non-linear damped-driven pendulum in case of $\mathrm{Mn_{3}Ir}$. The +theoretical framework allows us to identify the input current requirements as a +function of the material and geometry parameters for exciting an oscillatory +response. We also obtain a closed-form approximate solution of the oscillation +frequency for large input currents in case of both $\mathrm{Mn_{3}Ir}$ and +$\mathrm{Mn_{3}Sn}$. Our analytical predictions of threshold current and +oscillation frequency agree well with the numerical results and thus can be +used as compact models to design and optimize the auto oscillator. Employing a +circuit model, based on the principle of tunnel anisotropy magnetoresistance, +we present detailed models of the output power and efficiency versus +oscillation frequency of the auto oscillator. Finally, we explore the spiking +dynamics of two unidirectional as well as bidirectional coupled AFM oscillators +using non-linear damped-driven pendulum equations.",2106.08528v2 +2023-01-30,Investigation of Ultrafast Demagnetization and Gilbert Damping and their Correlation in Different Ferromagnetic Thin Films Grown Under Identical Conditions,"Following the demonstration of laser-induced ultrafast demagnetization in +ferromagnetic nickel, several theoretical and phenomenological propositions +have sought to uncover its underlying physics. In this work we revisit the +three temperature model (3TM) and the microscopic three temperature model +(M3TM) to perform a comparative analysis of ultrafast demagnetization in +20-nm-thick cobalt, nickel and permalloy thin films measured using an +all-optical pump-probe technique. In addition to the ultrafast dynamics at the +femtosecond timescales, the nanosecond magnetization precession and damping are +recorded at various pump excitation fluences revealing a fluence-dependent +enhancement in both the demagnetization times and the damping factors. We +confirm that the Curie temperature to magnetic moment ratio of a given system +acts as a figure of merit for the demagnetization time, while the +demagnetization times and damping factors show an apparent sensitivity to the +density of states at the Fermi level for a given system. Further, from +numerical simulations of the ultrafast demagnetization based on both the 3TM +and the M3TM, we extract the reservoir coupling parameters that best reproduce +the experimental data and estimate the value of the spin flip scattering +probability for each system. We discuss how the fluence-dependence of +inter-reservoir coupling parameters so extracted may reflect a role played by +nonthermal electrons in the magnetization dynamics at low laser fluences.",2301.12797v1 +2016-10-01,The destabilizing effect of external damping: Singular flutter boundary for the Pfluger column with vanishing external dissipation,"Elastic structures loaded by nonconservative positional forces are prone to +instabilities induced by dissipation: it is well-known in fact that internal +viscous damping destabilizes the marginally stable Ziegler's pendulum and +Pfluger column (of which the Beck's column is a special case), two structures +loaded by a tangential follower force. The result is the so-called +'destabilization paradox', where the critical force for flutter instability +decreases by an order of magnitude when the coefficient of internal damping +becomes infinitesimally small. Until now external damping, such as that related +to air drag, is believed to provide only a stabilizing effect, as one would +intuitively expect. Contrary to this belief, it will be shown that the effect +of external damping is qualitatively the same as the effect of internal +damping, yielding a pronounced destabilization paradox. Previous results +relative to destabilization by external damping of the Ziegler's and Pfluger's +elastic structures are corrected in a definitive way leading to a new +understanding of the destabilizating role played by viscous terms.",1611.03886v1 +2018-05-16,Stabilization rates for the damped wave equation with Hölder-regular damping,"We study the decay rate of the energy of solutions to the damped wave +equation in a setup where the geometric control condition is violated. We +consider damping coefficients which are $0$ on a strip and vanish like +polynomials, $x^{\beta}$. We prove that the semigroup cannot be stable at rate +faster than $1/t^{(\beta+2)/(\beta+3)}$ by producing quasimodes of the +associated stationary damped wave equation. We also prove that the semigroup is +stable at rate at least as fast as $1/t^{(\beta+2)/(\beta+4)}$. These two +results establish an explicit relation between the rate of vanishing of the +damping and rate of decay of solutions. Our result partially generalizes a +decay result of Nonnemacher in which the damping is an indicator function on a +strip.",1805.06535v3 +2014-02-07,One-dimensional random attractor and rotation number of the stochastic damped sine-Gordon equation,"This paper is devoted to the study of the asymptotic dynamics of the +stochastic damped sine-Gordon equation with homogeneous Neumann boundary +condition. It is shown that for any positive damping and diffusion +coefficients, the equation possesses a random attractor, and when the damping +and diffusion coefficients are sufficiently large, the random attractor is a +one-dimensional random horizontal curve regardless of the strength of noise. +Hence its dynamics is not chaotic. It is also shown that the equation has a +rotation number provided that the damping and diffusion coefficients are +sufficiently large, which implies that the solutions tend to oscillate with the +same frequency eventually and the so called frequency locking is successful.",1402.1787v1 +2021-02-01,Blow-up and lifespan estimates for a damped wave equation in the Einstein-de Sitter spacetime with nonlinearity of derivative type,"In this article, we investigate the blow-up for local solutions to a +semilinear wave equation in the generalized Einstein - de Sitter spacetime with +nonlinearity of derivative type. More precisely, we consider a semilinear +damped wave equation with a time-dependent and not summable speed of +propagation and with a time-dependent coefficient for the linear damping term +with critical decay rate. We prove in this work that the results obtained in a +previous work, where the damping coefficient takes two particular values $0$ or +$2$, can be extended for any positive damping coefficient. In the blow-up case, +the upper bound of the exponent of the nonlinear term is given, and the +lifespan estimate of the global existence time is derived as well.",2102.01137v2 +2023-10-24,Frictional weakening of a granular sheared layer due to viscous rolling revealed by Discrete Element Modeling,"Considering a 3D sheared granular layer modeled with discrete elements, it is +well known the rolling resistance significantly influences the mechanical +behavior. Even if the rolling resistance role has been deeply investigated as +it is commonly used to represent the the roughness of the grains and the +interparticle locking, the role of rolling viscous damping coefficient has been +largely overlooked so far. This parameter is rarely used or only to dissipate +the energy and to converge numerically. This paper revisits the physical role +of those coefficients with a parametric study of the rolling friction and the +rolling damping for a sheared layer at different shear speeds and different +confinement pressures. It has been observed that the damping coefficient +induces a frictional weakening. Hence, competition between the rolling +resistance and the rolling damping occurs. Angular resistance aims to avoid +grains rolling, decreasing the difference between the angular velocities of +grains. Whereas, angular damping acts in the opposite, avoiding a change in the +difference between the angular velocities of grains. In consequence, grains +keep rolling and the sample strength decreases. This effect must be considered +to not overestimate the frictional response of a granular layer.",2310.15945v1 +2019-04-24,On the Energy Decay Rate of the Fractional Wave Equation on $\mathbb{R}$ with Relatively Dense Damping,"We establish upper bounds for the decay rate of the energy of the damped +fractional wave equation when the averages of the damping coefficient on all +intervals of a fixed length are bounded below. If the power of the fractional +Laplacian, $s$, is between 0 and 2, the decay is polynomial. For $s \ge 2$, the +decay is exponential. Second, we show that our assumption on the damping is +necessary for the energy to decay exponentially.",1904.10946v3 +2021-02-28,Stability for an inverse source problem of the damped biharmonic plate equation,"This paper is concerned with the stability of the inverse source problem for +the damped biharmonic plate equation in three dimensions. The stability +estimate consists of the Lipschitz type data discrepancy and the high frequency +tail of the source function, where the latter decreases as the upper bound of +the frequency increases. The stability also shows exponential dependence on the +constant damping coefficient. The analysis employs Carleman estimates and time +decay estimates for the damped plate wave equation to obtain an exact +observability bound and depends on the study of the resonance-free region and +an upper bound of the resolvent of the biharmonic operator with respect to the +complex wavenumber.",2103.00461v1 +2023-02-13,Damping of gravitational waves in f(R) gravity,"We study the damping of $f(R)$ gravitational waves by matter in flat +spacetime and in expanding universe. In the former case, we find that the +Landau damping of scalar mode in $f(R)$ theory exists, while that of the tensor +mode in general relativity does not; we also present the viscosity coefficients +and dispersion relations of the two modes. In the later case, we investigate +the evolution of tensor and scalar modes in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) +cosmology with a matter distribution; by considering the case of $f(R)=R+\al +R^2$, we analysis the influence of parameter $\al$ on wave damping,and put +restrictions on its magnitude.",2302.06402v2 +2023-03-20,Nonlinear Damping and Field-aligned Flows of Propagating Shear Alfvén Waves with Braginskii Viscosity,"Braginskii MHD provides a more accurate description of many plasma +environments than classical MHD since it actively treats the stress tensor +using a closure derived from physical principles. Stress tensor effects +nonetheless remain relatively unexplored for solar MHD phenomena, especially in +nonlinear regimes. This paper analytically examines nonlinear damping and +longitudinal flows of propagating shear Alfv\'en waves. Most previous studies +of MHD waves in Braginskii MHD considered the strict linear limit of vanishing +wave perturbations. We show that those former linear results only apply to +Alfv\'en wave amplitudes in the corona that are so small as to be of little +interest, typically a wave energy less than $10^{-11}$ times the energy of the +background magnetic field. For observed wave amplitudes, the Braginskii viscous +dissipation of coronal Alfv\'en waves is nonlinear and a factor around $10^9$ +stronger than predicted by the linear theory. Furthermore, the dominant damping +occurs through the parallel viscosity coefficient $\eta_0$, rather than the +perpendicular viscosity coefficient $\eta_2$ in the linearized solution. This +paper develops the nonlinear theory, showing that the wave energy density +decays with an envelope $(1+z/L_d)^{-1}$. The damping length $L_d$ exhibits an +optimal damping solution, beyond which greater viscosity leads to lower +dissipation as the viscous forces self-organise the longitudinal flow to +suppress damping. Although the nonlinear damping greatly exceeds the linear +damping, it remains negligible for many coronal applications.",2303.11128v1 +2024-01-09,Damping Separation of Finite Open Systems in Gravity-Related Experiments in the Free Molecular Flow Regime,"The residual gas damping of the test mass (TM) in the free molecular flow +regime is studied in the finite open systems for high-precision gravity-related +experiments. Through strict derivation, we separate the damping coefficients +for two finite open systems, i.e., the bi-plate system and the sensor core +system, into base damping and diffusion damping. This elucidates the +relationship between the free damping in the infinite gas volume and the +proximity damping in the constrained volume, unifies them into one microscopic +picture, and allows us to point out three pathways of energy dissipation in the +bi-plate gap. We also provide the conditions that need to be met to achieve +this separation. In applications, for space gravitational wave detection, our +results for the residual gas damping coefficient for the 4TM torsion balance +experiment is the closest one to the experimental and simulation data compared +to previous models. For the LISA mission, our estimation for residual gas +acceleration noise at the sensitive axis is consistent with the simulation +result, within about $5\%$ difference. In addition, in the test of the +gravitational inverse-square law, our results suggest that the constraint on +the distance between TM and the conducting membrane can be reduced by about +$28\%$.",2401.04808v1 +2010-09-20,Diffusive properties of persistent walks on cubic lattices with application to periodic Lorentz gases,"We calculate the diffusion coefficients of persistent random walks on cubic +and hypercubic lattices, where the direction of a walker at a given step +depends on the memory of one or two previous steps. These results are then +applied to study a billiard model, namely a three-dimensional periodic Lorentz +gas. The geometry of the model is studied in order to find the regimes in which +it exhibits normal diffusion. In this regime, we calculate numerically the +transition probabilities between cells to compare the persistent random-walk +approximation with simulation results for the diffusion coefficient.",1009.3922v1 +2012-11-13,Critical exponent for the semilinear wave equation with scale invariant damping,"In this paper we consider the critical exponent problem for the semilinear +damped wave equation with time-dependent coefficients. We treat the scale +invariant cases. In this case the asymptotic behavior of the solution is very +delicate and the size of coefficient plays an essential role. We shall prove +that if the power of the nonlinearity is greater than the Fujita exponent, then +there exists a unique global solution with small data, provided that the size +of the coefficient is sufficiently large. We shall also prove some blow-up +results even in the case that the coefficient is sufficiently small.",1211.2900v1 +2010-12-07,Turbulence damping as a measure of the flow dimensionality,"The dimensionality of turbulence in fluid layers determines their properties. +We study electromagnetically driven flows in finite depth fluid layers and show +that eddy viscosity, which appears as a result of three-dimensional motions, +leads to increased bottom damping. The anomaly coefficient, which characterizes +the deviation of damping from the one derived using a quasi-two-dimensional +model, can be used as a measure of the flow dimensionality. Experiments in +turbulent layers show that when the anomaly coefficient becomes high, the +turbulent inverse energy cascade is suppressed. In the opposite limit +turbulence can self-organize into a coherent flow.",1012.1371v1 +2012-01-05,Damped bead on a rotating circular hoop - a bifurcation zoo,"The evergreen problem of a bead on a rotating hoop shows a multitude of +bifurcations when the bead moves with friction. This motion is studied for +different values of the damping coefficient and rotational speeds of the hoop. +Phase portraits and trajectories corresponding to all different modes of motion +of the bead are presented. They illustrate the rich dynamics associated with +this simple system. For some range of values of the damping coefficient and +rotational speeds of the hoop, linear stability analysis of the equilibrium +points is inadequate to classify their nature. A technique involving +transformation of coordinates and order of magnitude arguments is presented to +examine such cases. This may provide a general framework to investigate other +complex systems.",1201.1218v1 +2015-08-24,Scaling variables and asymptotic profiles for the semilinear damped wave equation with variable coefficients,"We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions for the semilinear damped wave +equation with variable coefficients. We prove that if the damping is effective, +and the nonlinearity and other lower order terms can be regarded as +perturbations, then the solution is approximated by the scaled Gaussian of the +corresponding linear parabolic problem. The proof is based on the scaling +variables and energy estimates.",1508.05778v3 +2018-07-17,On the blow-up for critical semilinear wave equations with damping in the scattering case,"We consider the Cauchy problem for semilinear wave equations with variable +coefficients and time-dependent scattering damping in $\mathbf{R}^n$, where +$n\geq 2$. It is expected that the critical exponent will be Strauss' number +$p_0(n)$, which is also the one for semilinear wave equations without damping +terms. Lai and Takamura (2018) have obtained the blow-up part, together with +the upper bound of lifespan, in the sub-critical case $p