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Numerical integration of a stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation is used to study dynamic processes in single-domain nanoscale magnets at nonzero temperatures. Special attention is given to including thermal fluctuations as a Langevin…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Gregory Brown , M. A. Novotny , Per Arne Rikvold

In this work, we develop a numerical homogenization approach for the fully nonlinear Landau-Lifshitz equation with rough coefficients, including non-periodicity and nonseparable scales. Direct numerical resolution of such multiscale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Zetao Ma , Jingrun Chen , Rui Du , Lei Zhang

Magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic materials is modeled by the Landau-Lifshitz (LL) equation, a nonlinear system of partial differential equations. Among the numerical approaches, semi-implicit schemes are widely used in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Yan Gui , Cheng Wang , Jingrun Chen

The dynamics of the magnetic distribution in a ferromagnetic material is governed by the Landau-Lifshitz equation, which is a nonlinear geometric dispersive equation with a nonconvex constraint that requires the magnetization to remain of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Eugenia Kim , Jon Wilkening

We introduce a numerical method to integrate the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in spherical coordinates for generic discretization schemes. This method conserves the magnetization modulus and ensures the approach to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-27 Federico Romá , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Gustavo S. Lozano

Motivated by the construction of time-periodic solutions for the three-dimensional Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in the case of soft and small ferromagnetic particles, we investigate the regularity properties of minimizers of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-06-25 Alexander Huber

Precise modeling of the magnetization dynamics of nanoparticles with finite size effects at fast varying temperatures is a computationally challenging task. Based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch (LLB) equation we derive a coarse grained model…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-07 Christoph Vogler , Claas Abert , Florian Bruckner , Dieter Suess

We use moment techniques to construct a converging hierarchy of optimization problems to lower bound the ground state energy of interacting particle systems. We approximate (from below) the infinite dimensional optimization problems in this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 David de Laat

We study a 2-scale version of the Landau-Lifshitz system of ferromagnetism, introduced by Starynkevitch to modelize hysteresis: the response of the magnetization is fast compared to a slowly varying applied magnetic fi eld. Taking the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-21 Eric Dumas , Stéphane Labbé

In this paper, we present a finite difference heterogeneous multiscale method for the Landau-Lifshitz equation with a highly oscillatory diffusion coefficient. The approach combines a higher order discretization and artificial damping in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Lena Leitenmaier , Olof Runborg

In this paper we introduce the energy efficiency as a new metric for evaluating both hardware platforms based on Graphic Processor Units (GPU), and algorithm optimisations at High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. We develop a method to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-01 Jiahui Zhuo , Arantza Oyanguren , Álvaro Fernández Casani , Luca Fiorini , Valerii Kholoimov

We present MuMax, a general-purpose micromagnetic simulation tool running on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). MuMax is designed for high performance computations and specifically targets large simulations. In that case speedups of over a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Arne Vansteenkiste , Ben Van de Wiele

The convergence analysis of a third-order scheme for the highly nonlinear Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with a non-convex constraint is considered. In this paper, we first present a fully discrete semi-implicit method for solving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Changjian Xie , Cheng Wang

In this paper we propose and analyze a finite element method for both the harmonic map heat and Landau--Lifshitz--Gilbert equation, the time variable remaining continuous. Our starting point is to set out a unified saddle point approach for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-23 Juan Vicente Gutiérrez-Santacreu , Marco Restelli

We present a fully iterative adaptive algorithm for the numerical minimization of strongly convex energy functionals in Hilbert spaces. The proposed approach, which we first present in abstract form, generates a hierarchical sequence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Raphael Leu , Thomas P. Wihler

An efficient method for computing thermodynamic equilibrium states at the micromagnetic length scale is introduced, using the Markov chain Monte Carlo method. Trial moves include not only rotations of vectors, but also a change in their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Serban Lepadatu

In this paper we accomplish the development of the fast rank-adaptive solver for tensor-structured symmetric positive definite linear systems in higher dimensions. In [arXiv:1301.6068] this problem is approached by alternating minimization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Sergey V. Dolgov , Dmitry V. Savostyanov

We study the thermodynamic cost associated with the erasure of one bit of information over a finite amount of time. We present a general framework for minimizing the average work required when full control of a system's microstates is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-09 Karel Proesmans , Jannik Ehrich , John Bechhoefer

We have developed a finite-element micromagnetic simulation code based on the FEniCS package called magnum.fe. Here we describe the numerical methods that are applied as well as their implementation with FEniCS. We apply a transformation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-27 Claas Abert , Lukas Exl , Florian Bruckner , André Drews , Dieter Suess

Numerical integration of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with thermal fluctuations is used to study the dynamic response of single-domain nanomagnets to rapid changes in the applied magnetic field. The simulation can resolve…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Brown , M. A. Novotny , P. A. Rikvold