Strongly Enhanced Gilbert Damping in 3 d Transition-Metal Ferromagnet Monolayers in Contact with the Topological Insulator $$\mathrm{Bi_2Se_3}$$
Abstract
Engineering Gilbert damping of ferromagnetic metal films is of great importance to exploit and design spintronic devices that are operated with an ultrahigh speed. Based on the scattering theory of Gilbert damping, we extend the torque method originally used in studies of magnetocrystalline anisotropy to theoretically determine Gilbert dampings of ferromagnetic metals. This method is utilized to investigate Gilbert dampings of 3d transition-metal ferromagnet iron, cobalt, and nickel monolayers that are contacted by the prototypical topological insulator Bi2Se3. Amazingly, we find that their Gilbert dampings are strongly enhanced by about one order of magnitude compared with dampings of their bulk forms and free-standing monolayers due to the strong spin-orbit coupling of $$\mathrm{Bi_2Se_3}$$. Finally, our work provides an attractive route for tailoring Gilbert damping of ferromagnetic metallic films by putting them in contact with topological insulators.
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- Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1527175
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-05ER46237
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Applied
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2331-7019
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
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Hou, Y. S., and Wu, R. Q. Strongly Enhanced Gilbert Damping in 3 d Transition-Metal Ferromagnet Monolayers in Contact with the Topological Insulator $\mathrm{Bi_2Se_3}$. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.054032.
Hou, Y. S., & Wu, R. Q. Strongly Enhanced Gilbert Damping in 3 d Transition-Metal Ferromagnet Monolayers in Contact with the Topological Insulator $\mathrm{Bi_2Se_3}$. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.054032
Hou, Y. S., and Wu, R. Q. Fri .
"Strongly Enhanced Gilbert Damping in 3 d Transition-Metal Ferromagnet Monolayers in Contact with the Topological Insulator $\mathrm{Bi_2Se_3}$". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.054032. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1527175.
@article{osti_1527175,
title = {Strongly Enhanced Gilbert Damping in 3 d Transition-Metal Ferromagnet Monolayers in Contact with the Topological Insulator $\mathrm{Bi_2Se_3}$},
author = {Hou, Y. S. and Wu, R. Q.},
abstractNote = {Engineering Gilbert damping of ferromagnetic metal films is of great importance to exploit and design spintronic devices that are operated with an ultrahigh speed. Based on the scattering theory of Gilbert damping, we extend the torque method originally used in studies of magnetocrystalline anisotropy to theoretically determine Gilbert dampings of ferromagnetic metals. This method is utilized to investigate Gilbert dampings of 3d transition-metal ferromagnet iron, cobalt, and nickel monolayers that are contacted by the prototypical topological insulator Bi2Se3. Amazingly, we find that their Gilbert dampings are strongly enhanced by about one order of magnitude compared with dampings of their bulk forms and free-standing monolayers due to the strong spin-orbit coupling of $\mathrm{Bi_2Se_3}$. Finally, our work provides an attractive route for tailoring Gilbert damping of ferromagnetic metallic films by putting them in contact with topological insulators.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.054032},
journal = {Physical Review Applied},
number = 5,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 10 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Fri May 10 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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