Convergence analysis of an implicit finite difference method for the inertial Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation

arXiv2209.02914MaRDI QIDQ6409925FDOQ6409925

Authors: Jingrun Chen, Panchi Li, C. Wang 

Publication date: 6 September 2022

Abstract: The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation is a widely used model for fast magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic materials. Recently, the inertial LLG equation, which contains an inertial term, has been proposed to capture the ultra-fast magnetization dynamics at the sub-picosecond timescale. Mathematically, this generalized model contains the first temporal derivative and a newly introduced second temporal derivative of magnetization. Consequently, it produces extra difficulties in numerical analysis due to the mixed hyperbolic-parabolic type of this equation with degeneracy. In this work, we propose an implicit finite difference scheme based on the central difference in both time and space. A fixed point iteration method is applied to solve the implicit nonlinear system. With the help of a second order accurate constructed solution, we provide a convergence analysis in $H^1$ for this numerical scheme, in the $el{l}^{i}nfty(0,T;H_h^1)$ norm. It is shown that the proposed method is second order accurate in both time and space, with unconditional stability and a natural preservation of the magnetization length. In the hyperbolic regime, significant damping wave behaviors of magnetization at a shorter timescale are observed through numerical simulations.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear initial, boundary and initial-boundary value problems for nonlinear parabolic equations (35K61) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12)

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