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Identification of the dominant precession damping mechanism in Fe, Co, and Ni by first-principles calculations

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Keith Gilmore, Y Idzerda, Mark D. Stiles

Abstract

The Landau-Lifshitz equation reliably describes magnetization dynamics using a phenomenological treatment of damping. This paper presents first-principles calculations of the damping parameters for Fe, Co, and Ni that quantitatively agree with existing ferromagnetic resonance measurements. This agreement establishes the dominant damping mechanism for these systems and takes a significant step toward predicting and tailoring the damping constants of new materials.
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Physical Review Letters
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Keywords

magnetization dynamics, precession damping
Nanomagnetics

Citation

Gilmore, K. , Idzerda, Y. and Stiles, M. (2007), Identification of the dominant precession damping mechanism in Fe, Co, and Ni by first-principles calculations, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=620594 (Accessed October 23, 2025)

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Created January 1, 2007, Updated June 2, 2021
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