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Micromagnetic theory of spin relaxation and ferromagnetic resonance in multilayered metallic films

Spin relaxation in the ultrathin metallic films of stacked microelectronic devices is investigated on the basis of a modified Landau-Lifshitz equation of micromagnetic dynamics in which the damping torque is treated as originating from the coupling between precessing magnetization-vector and the introduced stress-tensors of intrinsic and extrinsic magnetic anisotropy. Particular attention is given to the time of exponential relaxation and ferromagnetic resonance linewidth which are derived in analytic form from the equation of magnetization energy loss and Gabor uncertainty relation between the full-width-at-half-maximum in resonance-shaped line and lifetime of resonance excitation. The potential of developed theory is briefly discussed in the context of recent measurements.