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Energetics and switching of quasi-uniform states in small ferromagnetic particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2004

François Alouges ,
Sergio Conti ,
Antonio DeSimone  and
Yvo Pokern
François Alouges
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mathématique, Université d'Orsay, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France, and Centre de Mathématiques et de Leurs Applications, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, 61 avenue du Président Wilson, 94235 Cachan Cedex, France, francois.alouges@math.u-psud.fr.
Sergio Conti
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Inselstr. 22, 04103 Leipzig, Germany, Sergio.Conti@mis.mpg.de.
Antonio DeSimone
Affiliation:
SISSA, International School for Advanced Studies, Via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste, Italy, desimone@sissa.it.
Yvo Pokern
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
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Abstract

We present a numerical algorithm to solve the micromagnetic equations based on tangential-plane minimization for the magnetization update and a homothethic-layer decomposition of outer space for the computation of the demagnetization field. As a first application, detailed results on the flower-vortex transition in the cube of Micromagnetic Standard Problem number 3 are obtained, which confirm, with a different method, those already present in the literature, and validate our method and code. We then turn to switching of small cubic or almost-cubic particles, in the single-domain limit. Our data show systematic deviations from the Stoner-Wohlfarth model due to the non-ellipsoidal shape of the particle, and in particular a non-monotone dependence on the particle size.

Keywords

Micromagneticsfinite elements.
Type
Research Article
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ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , March 2004 , pp. 235 - 248
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2004

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