Computational Micro- and Nanomagnetism (2002-now)

The magnetic behaviour of ferromagnetic nanostructures of the length scales of micrometres and below is drived by the competition of interactions such as crystalline anisotropy, demagnetisation, exchange, and applied field, magnetistriction, thermal effects and torque transfer from polarised spin currents. Recently, the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction has produced exciting new results in complex systems and magnetic materials research.

We are working on a number of projects covering the following categories:

• Algorithm development
• Software development, including
  • Nmag,
  • Nmag successor Finmag,
  • Fidimag,
  • JOOMMF
  • contributions OOMMF and Magpar (see Software)
• Modelling of magnetic processes on the nanoscale using
  • Finite element and finite difference methods
  • Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynimacs methods

Click here for a gallery of some simulation results.