Dissipation of spin angular momentum in magnetic switching -: art. no. 197603

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作者
Stamm, C
Tudosa, I
Siegmann, HC
Stöhr, J
Dobin, AY
Woltersdorf, G
Heinrich, B
Vaterlaus, A
机构
[1] Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr, Stanford, CA 94309 USA
[2] Seagate Technol LLC, Fremont, CA 94538 USA
[3] Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
[4] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Solid State Phys Lab, CH-8049 Zurich, Switzerland
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.197603
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
Applying one ultrashort magnetic field pulse, we observe up to 10 precessional switches of the magnetization direction in single crystalline Fe films of 10 and 15 atomic layers. We find that the rate at which angular momentum is dissipated in uniform large angle spin precession increases with time and film thickness, surpassing the intrinsic ferromagnetic resonance spin lattice relaxation of Fe by nearly an order of magnitude.
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