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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 23, Issue 49, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/23/49/493201
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For metallic magnets we review the experimental and electron-theoretical investigations of fast magnetization dynamics (on a timescale of ns to 100 ps) and of laser-pulse-induced ultrafast dynamics (few hundred fs). It is argued that for both situations the dominant contributions to the dissipative part of the dynamics arise from the excitation of electron-hole pairs and from the subsequent relaxation of these pairs by spin-dependent scattering processes, which transfer angular momentum to the lattice. By effective field theories (generalized breathing and bubbling Fermi-surface models) it is shown that the Gilbert equation of motion, which is often used to describe the fast dissipative magnetization dynamics, must be extended in several aspects. The basic assumptions of the Elliott-Yafet theory, which is often used to describe the ultrafast spin relaxation after laser-pulse irradiation, are discussed very critically. However, it is shown that for Ni this theory probably yields a value for the spin-relaxation time T-1 in good agreement with the experimental value. A relation between the quantity alpha characterizing the damping of the fast dynamics in simple situations and the time T-1 is derived.
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