Atomic spin-sensitive dissipation on magnetic surfaces |
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Authors: | Pellegrini Franco Santoro Giuseppe E Tosatti Erio |
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Institution: | International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste, Italy. |
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Abstract: | We identify the mechanism of energy dissipation relevant to spin-sensitive nanomechanics including the recently introduced magnetic exchange force microscopy, where oscillating magnetic tips approach surface atomic spins. The tip-surface exchange couples spin and atom coordinates, leading to a spin-phonon problem with Caldeira-Leggett-type dissipation. In the overdamped regime, that can lead to a hysteretic flip of the local spin with a large spin-dependent dissipation, even down to the very low experimental tip oscillation frequencies, describing recent observations for Fe tips on NiO. A phase transition to an underdamped regime with dramatic drop of magnetic tip dissipation should in principle be possible by tuning tip-surface distance. |
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