2005/11/21 by K. Rivkin, Venkat Chandrasekhar, Rivkin, K. +4 · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Magnetic Properties and Applications #Magnetic properties of thin films #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0511496
arxiv created 2005/11/21 · openalex publication_date 2005/11/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Magnetization reversal (switching) using either r.f. fields or brute-force precessional switching is currently thought to ultimately be limited by the non-linear excitation of non-uniform spin waves, the so-called Suhl instability. Here we show (numerically, for the case of a sphere) that this instability can be suppressed by choosing the applied field and/or sphere diameter in such a way that the frequencies of the modes that can be excited through non-linear processes are off-resonance. While the results cannot be explained by a traditional model based on plane waves, they can be understood by projecting the actual state onto the small amplitude spin resonant eigenfunctions.