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On the dissipative coherent states of magnons
1Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-900, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Abstract:
Research in spintronics has attracted much attention in the last few years due to the technological progress in generating and manipulating spin currents in miniaturized devices. Notwithstanding dissipative effects are inherent to experiments, in many theoretical works the damping of spin waves is included later by phenomenological arguments or even disregarded. Among the many techniques that have been used to treat magnetic models, bosonic representations is one of them. In this work, we chose the Holstein-Primakoff bosonic formalism to treat a ferromagnetic model with a priori inclusion of the damping term. Damping is included through a non-Hermitian term in the Hamiltonian and we showed that the well-known coherent state formalism can be generalized to properly represent the dissipative magnon model. The obtained results are then used to describe the precession magnetization in spintronic experiments, as the spin pumping process.
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