Relativistic theory of magnetic inertia in ultrafast spin dynamics

Type of Publication: Journal article
Publication status: Published
Author: Mondal, Ritwik; Berritta, Marco; Nandy, Ashis K.; Oppeneer, Peter M.
Year of publication: 2017
Published in: Physical Review B ; 96 (2017), 2. - 024425. - ISSN 2469-9950. - eISSN 2469-9969
ArXiv-ID: arXiv:1704.01559
DOI (citable link): https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.024425
Summary:
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/c4 gives the intrinsic inertia of a pure system through the second order time derivative of magnetization in the dynamical equation of motion. Thus, the inertial damping I is a higher order spin-orbit coupling effect, ~1/c4, as compared to the Gilbert damping Γ that is of order 1/c2. Inertia is therefore expected to play a role only on ultrashort timescales (subpicoseconds). 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.
Subject (DDC): 530 Physics
Refereed: Yes

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MONDAL, Ritwik, Marco BERRITTA, Ashis K. NANDY, Peter M. OPPENEER, 2017. Relativistic theory of magnetic inertia in ultrafast spin dynamics. In: Physical Review B. 96(2), 024425. ISSN 2469-9950. eISSN 2469-9969. Available under: doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.024425

@article{Mondal2017Relat-46248, title={Relativistic theory of magnetic inertia in ultrafast spin dynamics}, year={2017}, doi={10.1103/PhysRevB.96.024425}, number={2}, volume={96}, issn={2469-9950}, journal={Physical Review B}, author={Mondal, Ritwik and Berritta, Marco and Nandy, Ashis K. and Oppeneer, Peter M.}, note={Article Number: 024425} }

Oppeneer, Peter M. 2019-07-08T13:49:35Z eng Berritta, Marco Berritta, Marco Mondal, Ritwik Nandy, Ashis K. Mondal, Ritwik Oppeneer, Peter M. 2019-07-08T13:49:35Z 2017 Relativistic theory of magnetic inertia in ultrafast spin dynamics Nandy, Ashis K. 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<sup>4</sup> gives the intrinsic inertia of a pure system through the second order time derivative of magnetization in the dynamical equation of motion. Thus, the inertial damping I is a higher order spin-orbit coupling effect, ~1/c<sup>4</sup>, as compared to the Gilbert damping Γ that is of order 1/c<sup>2</sup>. Inertia is therefore expected to play a role only on ultrashort timescales (subpicoseconds). 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.

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