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Author Leliaert, J.; Mulkers, J.; De Clercq, J.; Coene, A.; Dvornik, M.; Van Waeyenberge, B.
Title Adaptively time stepping the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation at nonzero temperature: Implementation and validation in MuMax3 Type A1 Journal article
Year (down) 2017 Publication AIP advances Abbreviated Journal Aip Adv
Volume 7 Issue 12 Pages 125010
Keywords A1 Journal article; Engineering sciences. Technology; Condensed Matter Theory (CMT)
Abstract Thermal fluctuations play an increasingly important role in micromagnetic research relevant for various biomedical and other technological applications. Until now, it was deemed necessary to use a time stepping algorithm with a fixed time step in order to perform micromagnetic simulations at nonzero temperatures. However, Berkov and Gorn have shown in [D. Berkov and N. Gorn, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter,14, L281, 2002] that the drift term which generally appears when solving stochastic differential equations can only influence the length of the magnetization. This quantity is however fixed in the case of the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. In this paper, we exploit this fact to straightforwardly extend existing high order solvers with an adaptive time stepping algorithm. We implemented the presented methods in the freely available GPU-accelerated micromagnetic software package MuMax3 and used it to extensively validate the presented methods. Next to the advantage of having control over the error tolerance, we report a twenty fold speedup without a loss of accuracy, when using the presented methods as compared to the hereto best practice of using Heun’s solver with a small fixed time step.
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Language Wos 000418492500010 Publication Date 2017-12-11
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Impact Factor 1.568 Times cited 13 Open Access
Notes This work was supported by the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO-Vlaanderen) through Project No. G098917N and a postdoctoral fellowship (A.C.). J. L. is supported by the Ghent University Special Research Fund (BOF postdoctoral fellowship). We gratefully acknowl- edge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of the Titan Xp GPU used for this research. Approved Most recent IF: 1.568
Call Number CMT @ cmt @c:irua:147860 Serial 4799
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