# Temperature dependent magnetic damping of yttrium iron garnet spheres

## TL;DR

This study explores how the magnetic damping in yttrium iron garnet spheres varies with temperature and frequency, revealing different regimes and underlying mechanisms affecting magnetic resonance linewidths.

## Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of temperature-dependent magnetic damping in yttrium iron garnet, including modeling with impurity relaxation and magnon scattering mechanisms.

## Key findings

- Linearly increasing linewidth above 100 K
- Peak linewidth at lower temperatures with non-Gilbert behavior
- Modeling with impurity relaxation and magnon scattering

## Abstract

We investigate the temperature dependent microwave absorption spectrum of an yttrium iron garnet sphere as a function of temperature (5 K to 300 K) and frequency (3 GHz to 43.5 GHz). At temperatures above 100 K, the magnetic resonance linewidth increases linearly with temperature and shows a Gilbert-like linear frequency dependence. At lower temperatures, the temperature dependence of the resonance linewidth at constant external magnetic fields exhibits a characteristic peak which coincides with a non-Gilbert-like frequency dependence. The complete temperature and frequency evolution of the linewidth can be modeled by the phenomenology of slowly relaxing rare-earth impurities and either the Kasuya-LeCraw mechanism or the scattering with optical magnons. Furthermore, we extract the temperature dependence of the saturation magnetization, the magnetic anisotropy and the g-factor.