title: Generalization of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation for conducting ferromagnets.
abstract: We propose an extension of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation by explicitly including the role of conduction electrons in magnetization dynamics of conducting ferromagnets. The temporal and spatial dependent magnetization order parameter m(r,t) generates both electrical and spin currents that provide dissipation of the energy and angular momentum of the processing magnet. The resulting LLG equation contains highly spatial dependence of damping term and thus micromagnetic simulations based on the standard LLG equation should be reexamined for magnetization dynamics involving narrow domain walls and spin waves with short wavelengths.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
authors.forename: Shufeng
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Steven S-L
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Zhang