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Intrinsic Ferromagnetic Resonance Linewidth Of Barium Ferrite Due To Spin-Wave Scattering By Trigonal Site Single-Particle Excitations, J. Sokoloff, S. Marshall, C. Vittoria

Jeffrey Sokoloff

Time-dependent two-magnon scattering was previously proposed as a mechanism to explain the large magnitude of the ferrimagnetic resonance (FMR) linewidth of barium ferrite as a function of frequency. In the present work, it is shown that a quantum mechanical mechanism like the Kasuya-Le Craw process (KL) but with the phonon excitation replaced by a single-particle excitation of a trigonal site iron ion, which moves in an anharmonic potential well, gives a linewidth contribution of less than a tenth of an Oersted and proportional to the frequency, as in the KL mechanism. We conclude, based on this work and our previous …