Dynamic susceptibility of thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

•We investigate the spin dynamics related to the Gilbert damping constant.•Susceptibility of thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy is obtained.•Dynamic susceptibility is derived from the Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation.•Numerical results are compared with analytic solutions for dynamic susceptibility.•We support the physical analysis for the determination of the damping constant.

We investigate the spin dynamics related to the Gilbert damping constant in infinite continuous thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), based on numerical and analytic approaches. We obtain the dynamic susceptibility of the infinite continuous thin films with various PMA energies by using micromagnetic simulations with periodic boundary conditions. These results are compared with the analytic solution that we derived from the Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation. Based on our numerical and analytic studies, we support the physical analysis for results in the experimental determination of the Gilbert damping constant for PMA materials.