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A quantum mechanical model is used to derive a generalized Landau-Lifshitz equation for a magnetic moment, including fluctuations and dissipation. The model reproduces the Gilbert-Brown form of the equation in the classical limit. The…

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A model of dissipative micromagnetics coupled to (visco-)elasticity is explored, following the procedures of the Ericksen-Leslie theory of nematic liquid crystals allowing for angular momentum due to magnetization. An outcome is the…

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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

A macroscopic equation of motion for the magnetization of a ferromagnet at elevated temperatures should contain both transverse and longitudinal relaxation terms and interpolate between Landau-Lifshitz equation at low temperatures and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. A. Garanin

We derive a continuum equation for the magnetization of a conducting ferromagnet in the presence of a spin-polarized current. Current effects enter in the form of a topological term in the Landau-Lifshitz equation . In the stationary…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 Ya. B. Bazaliy , B. A. Jones , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We analyze the spontaneous magnetization reversal of supported monoatomic chains of finite length due to thermal fluctuations via atomistic spin-dynamics simulations. Our approach is based on the integration of the Landau-Lifshitz equation…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-19 David S. G. Bauer , Phivos Mavropoulos , Samir Lounis , Stefan Blügel

The effect of thermal fluctuations on a thin film magnetoresistive element has been calculated. The technique involves adding to the basic spin dynamics a general form of interaction with a thermal bath. For a general anisotropic magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir L. Safonov , H. Neal Bertram

Energy dissipation via spin excitations is investigated for a hard ferromagnetic tip scanning a soft magnetic monolayer. We use the classical Heisenberg model with Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG)-dynamics including a stochastic field…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-08-03 Martin P. Magiera , Lothar Brendel , Dietrich E. Wolf , Ulrich Nowak

The magnetization dynamics of spin torque oscillator (STO) consisting of a perpendicularly magnetized free layer and an in-plane magnetized pinned layer was studied by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. We derived the analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Hiroko Arai , Hitoshi Kubota , Hiroshi Imamura

We formulate a phenomenological description of thin ferromagnetic layers with inversion asymmetry where the single-domain magnetic dynamics experiences magnon current-induced torques and leads to magnon-motive forces. We first construct a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 Alexey A. Kovalev , Utkan Güngördü

The Landau-Lifshitz equation for the magnetization dynamics of a single-domain magnetic system is solved using the methods of self-organization. The description takes into account the torque due to spin transfer. The potential energy of the…

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

The linear response of itinerant transition metal ferromagnets to transverse magnetic fields is studied in a self-consistent adiabatic local-density approximation. The susceptibility is calculated from a microscopic Hamiltonian, including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Hans Joakim Skadsem , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

The thermal activation of magnetization reversal in magnetic nanoparticles is controlled by the anisotropy-energy barrier. Using perturbation theory, exact diagonalization and stability analysis of the ferromagnetic spin-s Heisenberg model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-16 Mohammad Sayad , Daniel Gütersloh , Michael Potthoff

The real-time dynamics of a classical spin in an external magnetic field and locally exchange coupled to an extended one-dimensional system of non-interacting conduction electrons is studied numerically. Retardation effects in the coupled…

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The dynamics of magnetization coupled to an electron gas via s-d exchange interaction is investigated by using density matrix technique. Our theory shows that non-equilibrium spin accumulation induces a spin torque and the electron bath…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Yong Wang , Wei-qiang Chen , Fu-Chun Zhang

Spin relaxation in the ultrathin metallic films of stacked microelectronic devices is investigated on the basis of a modified Landau-Lifshitz equation of micromagnetic dynamics in which the damping torque is treated as originating from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-22 Sergey Bastrukov , Jun Yong Khoo , Boris Lukiyanchuk , Irina Molodtsova

The magnetization dynamics of ferromagnets are often formulated in terms of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation. The reactive part of this equation describes the response of the magnetization in terms of effective fields, whereas the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Simulations of magnetization dynamics in a multiscale environment enable rapid evaluation of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in a mesoscopic sample with nanoscopic accuracy in areas where such accuracy is required. We have developed a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Andrea De Lucia , Benjamin Krüger , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Mathias Kläui

A common ploy to reduce the switching current and energy dissipation in spin-transfer-torque driven magnetization switching of shape-anisotropic single-domain nanomagnets is to employ magnets with low saturation magnetization $M_s$ and high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Kuntal Roy , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay , Jayasimha Atulasimha , Kamaram Munira , Avik W. Ghosh

We investigate theoretically the dynamics of magnetization coupled to the surface Dirac fermions of a three dimensional topological insulator, by deriving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation in the presence of charge current. Both…

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