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An extended Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation is introduced to describe the dynamics of inhomogeneous magnetization in a current-carrying wire. The coefficients of all the terms in this equation are calculated quantum-mechanically for…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 D. M. Edwards , O. Wessely

We propose a three-dimensional micromagnetic model that dynamically solves the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation coupled to the full spin-diffusion equation. In contrast to previous methods, we solve for the magnetization dynamics and the…

The traditional Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation has often delineated the linear and nonlinear magnetization dynamics, even at ultrashort timescales e.g., femtoseconds. In contrast, several other non-relativistic and relativistic spin…

A theoretical model based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch equation is developed to study the spin-torque effect in ferrimagnets. Experimental findings, such as the temperature dependence, the peak in spin torque, and the angular-momentum…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-21 Zhifeng Zhu , Xuanyao Fong , Gengchiau Liang

Non-damped oscillations of the magnetization vector of a ferromagnetic system subject to a spin polarized current and an external magnetic field are studied theoretically by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. It is shown that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Gorley , P. P. Horley , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , V. R. Vieira

We theoretically study the magnetization dynamics of a thin ferromagnetic film exchange-coupled with a surface of a strong three-dimensional topological insulator. We focus on the role of electronic zero modes imprinted by domain walls…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Daniel Loss

The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation is a fascinating nonlinear evolution equation both from mathematical and physical points of view. It is related to the dynamics of several important physical systems such as ferromagnets, vortex…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-01-06 M. Lakshmanan

Magnetic oscillations of Dirac surface states of topological insulators are expected to be associated with the formation of Landau levels or the Aharonov-Bohm effect. We instead study the conductance of Dirac surface states subjected to an…

Coupling of the spin and orbital degrees of freedom on the surface of a strong three-dimensional insulator, on the one hand, and textured magnetic configuration in an adjacent ferromagnetic film, on the other, is studied using a combination…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , D. A. Pesin , Daniel Loss

A keen interest towards technological implications of spin-orbit driven magnetization dynamics requests a proper theoretical description, especially in the context of a microscopic framework, to be developed. Indeed, magnetization dynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 Anastasiia A. Pervishko , Mikhail I. Baglai , Olle Eriksson , Dmitry Yudin

We study the thermodynamic properties of the two-component $2+1$-dimensional massive Dirac fermions in an external magnetic field. The broken time-reversal symmetry results in the presence of a linear in the magnetic field part of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-24 S. G. Sharapov

The surface states of topological insulators, which behave as charged massless Dirac fermions, are studied in the presence of a quantizing uniform magnetic field. Using the method of D.H. Lee[1], analytical formula satisfied by the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-13 Oskar Vafek

The damping of magnetization, represented by the rate at which it relaxes to equilibrium, is successfully modeled as a phenomenological extension in the Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert equation. This is the damping torque term known as Gilbert…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-04-01 M. C. Hickey , J. S. Moodera

The dynamics of magnetization in the presence of spin-transfer torque was studied. We derived the equation for the motion of magnetization in the presence of a spin current by using the local equilibrium assumption in non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-07 Kazuhiko Seki , Hiroshi Imamura

Starting from the Dirac-Kohn-Sham equation we derive the relativistic equation of motion of spin angular momentum in a magnetic solid under an external electromagnetic field. This equation of motion can be written in the form of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-20 Ritwik Mondal , Marco Berritta , Peter M. Oppeneer

Analytical multi-domain solutions to the dynamical (Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert) equation of a one-dimensional ferromagnet including an external magnetic field and spin-polarized electric current are found using the Hirota bilinearization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-13 Andrzej Janutka

In conventional micromagnetism magnetic domain configurations are calculated based on a continuum theory for the magnetization which is assumed to be of constant length in time and space. Dynamics is usually described with the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-05-05 O. Chubykalo-Fesenko , U. Nowak , R. W. Chantrell , D. Garanin

We calculate the magnetization torque due to the spin polarization of the itinerant electrons by deriving the kinetic spin Bloch equations based on the $s$-$d$ model. We find that the first-order gradient of the magnetization inhomogeneity…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-15 K. Shen , G. Tatara , M. W. Wu

Low energy excitation of surface states of a three-dimensional topological insulator (3DTI) can be described by Dirac fermions. By using a tight-binding model, the transport properties of the surface states in a uniform magnetic field is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Yan-Yang Zhang , Xiang-Rong Wang , X. C. Xie

The mechanisms of the magnetization switching of magnetic multilayers driven by a current are studied by including exchange interaction between local moments and spin accumulation of conduction electrons. It is found that this exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Zhang , P. M. Levy , A. Fert