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Data and scripts from: Low-temperature spin dynamics in LAFO thin films: from cubic anisotropy to TLS-limited coherence

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Pal_PRMaterials_README_2026.md (7.51 KB)
Pal_PRMaterials_Data_2026.zip (7.12 MB)
Permanent Link(s)
https://doi.org/10.7298/r146-nb38
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/121179
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Physics Research
Author
Pal, Srishti
Qu, Guanxiong
Carruzzo, Hervé M.
Mikhailova, Katya
Takana, Lerato
Xu, Qin
Suzuki, Yuri
Yu, Clare C.
Fuchs, Gregory D.
Abstract

These files contain data supporting all results reported in Pal et al., "Low-temperature spin dynamics in LAFO thin films: from cubic anisotropy to TLS-limited coherence." In this work we investigate the low-temperature spin dynamics of epitaxial lithium aluminum ferrite (LAFO) thin films using broadband ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectroscopy from 0.44 K to 68 K. The results reveal a crossover from conventional cubic anisotropy-dominated behavior at higher temperatures to pronounced linewidth broadening and higher-order anisotropy contributions at cryogenic temperatures. With the magnetic field oriented along the [100] crystallographic direction, the resonance is well-captured by four-fold in-plane and out-of-plane uniaxial anisotropies. In contrast, measurements with the field along the [110] direction reveal the presence of an unusually large sixth-order cubic anisotropy term that is symmetry-suppressed for [100] but becomes apparent under this field orientation at ultralow temperatures, indicating a substantial modification of the anisotropy landscape. Independent linewidth analysis shows a pronounced peak near 8 K and a subtle monotonic enhancement with decreasing temperatures below 2 K, features consistent with dissipation mediated by a bath of two-level systems (TLS) arising from antisite defects and localized Fe$^{3+}$ moments. Comparison with TLS-based models demonstrates that both exchange-coupled impurities and nearly free paramagnetic centers contribute to the observed damping. Our results establish LAFO as a model ferrite system where disorder-induced TLS limit spin coherence at ultralow temperatures, providing new insights into anisotropy engineering, magnetic relaxation, and the design of ferrimagnetic insulators for coherent magnonics. These findings offer a framework for future optimization of growth conditions.

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Please cite as: Srishti Pal, Guanxiong Qu, Hervé M. Carruzzo, Katya Mikhailova, Lerato Takana, Qin Xu, Yuri Suzuki, Clare C. Yu, Gregory D. Fuchs. (2026) Data and scripts from: Low-temperature spin dynamics in LAFO thin films: from cubic anisotropy to TLS-limited coherence. [data set] Cornell University Library eCommons Repository. https://doi.org/10.7298/r146-nb38
Sponsorship
This work was supported as part of the Center for Energy Efficient Magnonics an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences at SLAC National Laboratory under contract # DE-AC02-76SF00515. Cryogenic measurements were enabled by the cryostat facility of the Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Award No. DE-SC0021314. This work also made use of the Cornell NanoScale Facility, a member of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure supported by National Science Foundation (NNCI-1542081) and the Cornell Center for Materials Research shared instrumentation facility.
Date Issued
2026
Keywords
ferromagnetic resonance
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two-level-system coupling
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linewidth
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cryogenic
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Attribution 4.0 International
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Type
dataset

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