2018/08/31 by Akashdeep Kamra, Roberto E. Troncoso, Wolfgang Belzig +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.mes-hall
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.98.184402
published as Phys. Rev. B 98, 184402 (2018)
arxiv created 2018/11/06 · arxiv updated 2018/11/08
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 2×2 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.