micromagnetics
Sign in to saveMicromagnetics is a field of physics dealing with the prediction of magnetic behaviors at sub-micrometer length scales. The length scales considered are large enough for the atomic structure of the material to be ignored (the continuum approximation), yet small enough to resolve magnetic structures such as domain walls or vortices.
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16 sectionsContents
- History
- Static micromagnetics
- Exchange energy
- Anisotropy energy
- Zeeman energy
- Energy of the demagnetizing field
- Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya Interaction Energy
- Magnetoelastic Energy
- Dynamic micromagnetics
- Effective field
- Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation
- Applications
- See also
- Footnotes and references
- Further reading
- External links
Micromagnetics is a field of physics dealing with the prediction of magnetic behaviors at sub-micrometer length scales. The length scales considered are large enough for the atomic structure of the material to be ignored (the continuum approximation), yet small enough to resolve magnetic structures such as domain walls or vortices.
Micromagnetics can deal with static equilibria, by minimizing the magnetic energy, and with dynamic behavior, by solving the time-dependent dynamical equation.
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