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Reversal time of the magnetization of magnetic nanoparticles at very low damping

The magnetization reversal time of ferromagnetic nanoparticles is investigated in the very low damping regime. The energy-controlled diffusion equation rooted in a generalization of the Kramers escape rate theory for point Brownian particles in a potential to the magnetic relaxation of a macrospin, yields the reversal time in closed integral form. The latter is calculated for a nanomagnet with uniaxial anisotropy with a uniform field applied at an angle to the easy axis and for a nanomagnet with biaxial anisotropy with the field along the easy axis. The results completely agree with those yielded by independent numerical and asymptotic methods.