Ferromagnetic resonance modulation in topological materials with bulk--boundary coexistence

TL;DR

This paper develops a theory for ferromagnetic resonance modulation in topological materials where bulk and boundary states coexist at the same energy, revealing characteristic excitation features and temperature-dependent decay behaviors.

Contribution

It extends FMR modulation theory to systems with coexisting bulk and boundary states, providing a new framework for analyzing topological materials.

Findings

Enhanced Gilbert damping on the (110) surface of a d-wave superconductor due to boundary states.

Identification of edge-to-edge and edge-to-bulk excitation peaks near zero energy and the superconducting gap.

Observation of power-law decay at low temperatures and exponential decay at intermediate temperatures.

Abstract

We extend ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) modulation theory to describe systems in which bulk and boundary states of topological materials coexist, with both appearing at the same energy. As an application of the formulation, we investigate the enhancement of the Gilbert damping constant on the $(110)$ surface of a $d$-wave superconductor where nodal quasiparticles coexist with edge states, which are one-dimensional boundary states, known as surface zero-energy Andreev bound states. We find two characteristic features: a pronounced edge-to-edge excitation peak near zero energy, and an additional edge-to-bulk excitation peak at the superconducting gap energy. We also observe power-law decay at low temperatures and exponential decay at intermediate temperatures in the low-energy regime. These features demonstrate the comparable contributions of the bulk and boundary states to the FMR response. Our theory provides a broadly applicable framework for the analysis of topological materials.