2016/02/10 by Dilina Perera, Markus Eisenbach, Don M. Nicholson +4 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #Angular momentum #Anisotropy #Condensed matter physics #Coupling (piping) #Electron #Lattice (music) #Magnetic properties of thin films #Materials science #Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum mechanics #Spin (aerodynamics) #Spin engineering #Spin polarization #Spin–orbit interaction #Translational symmetry #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.93.060402
published as Phys. Rev. B 93 (2016), 060402
openalex publication_date 2016/02/10 · arxiv created 2016/12/27 · arxiv updated 2016/12/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We propose a powerful extension to combined molecular and spin dynamics that fully captures the coupling between the atomic and spin subsystems via spin-orbit interactions. Its foundation is the inclusion of the local magnetic anisotropies that arise as a consequence of the lattice symmetry breaking due to phonons or defects. We demonstrate that our extension enables the exchange of angular momentum between the atomic and spin subsystems, which is critical to the challenges arising in the study of fluctuations and nonequilibrium processes in complex, natural, and engineered magnetic materials.