Analysis of a coupled spin drift-diffusion Maxwell-Landau-Lifshitz system (Q5964038)

The paper concerns the coupling of a spin drift-diffusion model and the Maxwell-Landau-Lifschitz system. The authors consider a three-layer two-dimensional semiconductor structure consisting of two ferromagnetic regions, separated by a nonmagnetic interlayer. The dynamics of the magnetization is governed by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation and the electric and magnetic fields by the time-dependent Maxwell equations. The spin drift-diffusion equations are considered for the charge density and the spin density. The boundary of the domain splits into two parts with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. The authors prove existence of global weak solutions for the coupled system. The proof is based on a combination of semigroup techniques for the Maxwell equations, a Galerkin approximation for the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, and \(L^2\) estimates for the spin drift-diffusion mode. It is also proved that the free energy is nonincreasing in time if the magnetization-spin interaction constant in the Landau-Lifshitz equation is sufficiently small.