The fractional Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation

Abstract

The dynamics of a magnetic moment or spin are of high interest to applications in technology. Dissipation in these systems is therefore of importance for improvement of efficiency of devices, such as the ones proposed in spintronics. A large spin in a magnetic field is widely assumed to be described by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation, which includes a phenomenological Gilbert damping. Here, we couple a large spin to a bath and derive a generic (non-)Ohmic damping term for the low-frequency range using a Caldeira-Leggett model. This leads to a fractional LLG equation, where the first-order derivative Gilbert damping is replaced by a fractional derivative of order $s\ge 0$. We show that the parameter $s$ can be determined from a ferromagnetic resonance experiment, where the resonance frequency and linewidth no longer scale linearly with the effective field strength.

arXiv comment28 (6 manuscript + 22 supplementary) pages, 3 (2 manuscript + 1 supplementary) figures

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