Atomistic spin dynamics and surface magnons

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Abstract
Atomistic spin dynamics simulations have evolved to become a powerful and versatile tool for simulating dynamic properties of magnetic materials. It has a wide range of applications, for instance switching of magnetic states in bulk and nano-magnets, dynamics of topological magnets, such as skyrmions and vortices and domain wall motion. In this review, after a brief summary of the existing investigation tools for the study of magnons, we focus on calculations of spin-wave excitations in low-dimensional magnets and the effect of relativistic and temperature effects in such structures. In general, we find a good agreement between our results and the experimental values. For material specific studies, the atomistic spin dynamics is combined with electronic structure calculations within the density functional theory from which the required parameters are calculated, such as magnetic exchange interactions, magnetocrystalline anisotropy, and Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya vectors.
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  • Carl Tryggers Stiftelse för Vetenskaplig Forskning
  • Vetenskapsrådet
  • Göran Gustafssons Stiftelse för Naturvetenskaplig och Medicinsk Forskning
  • European Research Council
  • eSSENCE
  • Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
  • Swedish e-science Research Centre SeRC

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