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Spin Dynamics and Damping in Ferromagnetic Thin Films and Nanostructures

Abstract

As briefly mentioned in the introduction of Chap. 1, the spin dynamics has been a topic of intense research to address several intriguing fundamental physics issues. In this chapter, we describe various time scales involved with spin dynamics in detail.

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  1. Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India

    Prof. Anjan Barman

  2. Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India

    Dr. Jaivardhan Sinha

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Barman, A., Sinha, J. (2018). Spin Dynamics. In: Spin Dynamics and Damping in Ferromagnetic Thin Films and Nanostructures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66296-1_2

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