In this paper, the Landau–Lifshitz–Baryakhtar (LLBar) equation for magnetization dynamics in ferrimagnets is considered. We prove global existence of a periodic solutions as well as local existence and uniqueness of regular solutions. We also study the relationships between the Landau–Lifshitz–Baryakhtar equation and both Landau–Lifshitz–Bloch and harmonic map equations.
Ferrimagnetism is one of the many manifestations of magnetism. It takes its name from ferrites, crystalline bodies based on iron oxide, the magnetic properties of which lie between those of antiferromagnetic materials and those of ferromagnetic materials. The magnetic properties of a material are the result of the sum of its magnetic moments. A ferrimagnetic material is a type of magnetic material where the individual magnetic moments of atoms or ions are aligned in slightly different directions, resulting in a net magnetic moment for the material even in the absence of the external magnetic field. Unlike ferromagnetic materials where the magnetic moments are fully aligned, in ferrimagnetic materials, there is a partial cancellation between the opposing magnetic moments, but the amplitudes of the magnetic moments are slightly different. A magnetization however is generally weaker than in the case of a ferromagnetic material. At Curie temperature, a ferrimagnetic material loses its spontaneous magnetization and gradually becomes paramagnetic. In other words, it can then acquire a magnetization under the effect of an external magnetic field.
For our purpose, we consider the model derived in [8,16,29] which consists on the following Landau–Lifshitz–Baryakhtar (LLBar) equation
such that the symbol × represents the vector product in , , γ, are the magnetization field, the gyromagnetic ratio, and the effective magnetic field, respectively. The magnnetization-dependent parameters and are the relativistic and exchange relaxation tensors, respectively. We know that LLBar equation does not preserve the magnitude of the magnetization vector, while Landau–Lifshitz model guarantees this property. The effective field is expressed as
where is the longitudinal susceptibility. The polycristalline anisotropy field which is linear on is neglected. Then, we denote the relaxation tensors as and ( is the unit tensor) where the parameters and are constants. Equation (1) reduces to
We replace by its value in (3) (we assume that is regular enough) to obtain
where , and denotes the bilaplacian operator. Here we consider a magnetic material, in which θ exceeds the value (the Curie temperature), and as a consequence .
Recall that above the Curie temperature, the material undergoes a phase transition from a ferromagnetic to a ferrimagnetic state. The modulus of magnetization, as described in the Landau–Lifshitz theory by Baryakhtar, typically decreases as the temperature increases beyond the Curie temperature due to the diminishing alignment of magnetic moments. The modulus of magnetization is no longer preserved due to the partial cancellation of opposing magnetic moments. This leads to a reduction in the net magnetization of the material.
To equation (4), we associate the initial conditions
Throughout this paper, we assume that is 2D-periodic with is a constant, i.e, , where denotes the unit orthogonal basis of and . We assume that the ferrimagnetic material is represented by the domain Ω. Then, we obtain the following LLBar problem
where .
In the case when , the first equation of (6) becomes the Landau–Lifshitz–Bloch (LLB) equation
Significant advancements have been made in the field of micromagnetics, particularly concerning the global existence of solutions within the framework LLB equations. Results such as the existence of weak solutions for (7) with homogeneous Neumann boundary condition can be found in [21], where the proof uses Faedo–Galerkin approximations. In [4], another result concerning a finite difference scheme for the fractional in time LLB model has been established. The paper [22] provides a comprehensive analysis of weak and strong solutions to LLB coupled to a Maxwell equations with polarization. The LLB equation including adiabatic and non-adiabatic torques is considered in [6] where some results on existence, uniqueness and asymptotic behavior are provided. The question of local existence and uniqueness of regular solutions to LLB equation is addressed in [7] while regular solutions for the compressible LLB equation is investigated in [2]. Some asymptotic behavior results for the LLB equation are presented in [20]. Finally, there has been a notable surge in interest regarding the stochastic versions of the LLB equations. These stochastic formulations introduce a crucial element of randomness into the dynamics of magnetization, reflecting the inherent uncertainty and thermal fluctuations present at the nanoscale regime. In this context, we refer for example to [9,18].
When , we obtain the well known Heisenberg equation
This paper aims to build upon the insights gained from references above and contribute to the current research on the existence of solutions to (6). Thereafter, for the classical Banach spaces, we will use the following notations:
and
We also define the 2D-periodic spaces and by
and
These spaces are equipped respectively with the usual norm denoted by and . For , , we put and . The dual spaces of and are denoted respectively by and where . In the rest of this paper, for a real numbers m, p, q such that , we use the notation with the convention that .
Before proceeding, let us give the definition of weak solutions to problem (6).
Consider . We call a weak solution of problem (6) a function satisfying
For all , and ;
For all which is 2D-periodic in space, there holds
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Global existence of weak solution to the model (6) is proved in Section 2 by essentially using Faedo–Galerkin method. In Section 3, we prove the existence of a regular solution for (6) while Section 4 reveals the relationships between the LLBar equation and both LLB and Heisenberg equations. Some concluding remarks are presented in the last section.
Weak solutions to LLBar equation
This portion is dedicated to prove a global existence of weak solutions result.
Letbe fixed and. Then there exists a global weak solution of the problem (
6
) in the sense of Definition
1
.
To prove the existence of weak solutions of the problem (6) we follow [1,3,5,15,19,21,25,28]. We use Faedo–Galerkin method, we approximate by . We set
where the are the orthonormalized eigenfunctions of the eigenvalue problems
Here are -valued vectors. Let and is the orthogonal projection. Recall that each of the also satisfies
We obtain the following approximated problem
The vector function is a solution of (9) if the components of the vector is a solution of the following ordinary differential system
where is the projection of on , and the components of the vector is defined by
Here the inner product in is denoted by . Standard results on nonlinear ordinary differential equations allows to get local existence of a solution to (10).
In order to ensure that all the functions are defined on interval for all , and hence a global solution to the problem (6) by taking , the following estimates need to be hold.
Some a priori estimates
Let. Then for any, for the solutionto the approximated problem, the following estimates holdandfor some constant C independent of K.
The inner product of the two sides of (9) with , and integrating by parts, allow to obtain
Integrating with respect to t, we get (11).
In order to prove (12), let and taking the inner product of the two sides of the first Eq. of (9) with , we obtain
By Young’s inequality, we get
By estimates (11), and for some constant C independent of K, we have
This complete the proof of Lemma 1. The next step is to prove the Theorem 1. □
Convergence of the Galerkin approximation
This subsection is dedicated to the convergence of the approximate solutions by letting in the above analysis. Let us first recall a compactness lemma in order to deal with nonlinear terms. More details can be found in Lions [23].
If,,are three Banach spaces satisfyingwhere the injections are continuous andLetwith T is finite and. Thenequipped with the normis a Banach space and the embeddingis compact. When,, the embeddingis compact.
Using Lemma 1 and the fact that in we conclude that the right-hand side of (11) is uniformly bounded with respect to K. Then we get the uniform boundedness of in , and of in .
Applying the compactness Lemma 2 with , and , for a subsequence still labeled by ), the following convergences hold
Consequently
Let which is 2D-periodic. Multiplying the first Eq. of (9) by and integrating by parts on Ω, we obtain
Convergence of the first, the third and the fourth term is obvious since they are linear,
The boundedness of Ω and of in allows to deduce the boundedness of in hence in . From[[23], Lemma 1.3, Chap. 1], one can easily show that . The weak convergence of allows to get
For the second term, the weak convergence of and the strong convergence of in , enable to obtain
Similarly
which tend to 0 when K tend to infinity, thanks to the strong convergence of in and the weak convergence of in with since .
To pass to the limit in the last term of (19), we need the convergence almost everywhere of in due to the presence of the term , hence
and the last term in this inequality tends to zero when K tends to infinity because weakly in as a consequence of (18) and .
The a priori estimates holds true even for the solution to problem (6). Accordingly satisfies the estimates of Lemma 1.
Regular solution to LLBar equation
Here we shall investigate a local well-posedness result for the problem (6). More precisely, we have
Assume. Then there existsand a unique strong solution to (
6
) such that for all,and for all, there holds
Let us recall some preliminary results.
Letcontinuous and locally lipschitz with respect to its second variable. Letbe the maximal solution of the Cauchy problem:Let,such thatThen
One can find a constant C such that for all K, the orthogonal projectionsatisfies
,.
withon,for.
The proof of estimates for can be found in [10]. We prove in the same way the and estimates. First, we write , where . For , since on , we have
hence . Then
In the same manner, we prove that , then we deduce that the property is true for . This complete the proof of the Proposition 1. □
Now we prove result of theorem 2. We first provide some uniform estimates. We take the inner product of the two sides of (9) with and respectively, integrating by parts, we obtain
and
where
Then
Summing (28) and (30) and absorbing , we obtain in particular that there exists a constant C such that
We set . We have proven that for all K
Consider Θ the maximal solution to the following ordinary differential equation
and let the maximal existence time of θ. From the comparison lemma, we get
Then there exists a constant C wich depend only on the size of in such that for all we have
Using again (30), we deduce that
Since and , we can write the term in the form
Consequently, by using the continuous embedding , we deduce from (32) and (33) that the right hand side of (9) is uniformly bounded in with respect K. Then
Now, we pass to the limit as K goes to infinity. Previous estimates implies that there exists a subsequence of (not relabeled) such that
Thanks to Aubin–Lions compactness lemma 2, we obtain
and
Let be a test function. From (9) we get
We take to the limit in each term of (40) as by using the principle of weak-strong convergence as a consequence of (35), (36), (37), (38) and (39).
Let us now discuss the uniqueness of the solution to problem (6). To deal with, let and be two solutions of (6) and . We introduce the difference . Then verifies in the sense of Theorem 2 the following equation
in , and subject to initial conditions in Ω.
Since then . Therefore we can take and as a test functions. Consequently, multiplying equation (41) respectively by and and integrating over Ω, we get
and
Summing up (42) and (43), we obtain
where
and
Let us estimate . By interpolation inequality, and the continuous embedding (for ) and , we obtain
where depends on the data and linearly on for .
In order to estimate , we rewrite in the following way
Noting that for , then . Therefore
where is given by
and for all .
For , we have
Then
Equation (44) allows to get
Choosing d such that , say , we get
where
Note that . Since by the continuous embeddings , we have and for . Accordingly, Gronwall’s inequality yields
This completes the proof.
Further regular solution to the problem (6) can be obtained. More precisely we construct more regular solution to the problem (6) in the class with . We have
Assume. Letandforgiven by Theorem
2
. Then for all,
Taking the inner product of (9) by and integrating by parts, we get
In the following, we bound each term separately.
By using integration by parts, we rewrite in the form
Then by Lemma 5, we obtain that
For , we have
For we use integration by parts and Young’s inequality to obtain
On the other hand thanks to the Lemma 5, for the first and last terms of the right-hand side of (48) one can get the following estimate
For the second and the third terms of the right-hand side of (48), we have
Therefore
From (45) and the estimates (46), (47) and (49), we obtain
Absorbing by using Young’s inequality, one gets
Exploiting (31) and (51) leads to
Using the same reasoning as in the proof of the Theorem 2, we deduce that there exists which depend on the size of and such that
for all , and (51) implies the uniform boundedness of in .
In order to get the boundedness of in , we derive the Galerkin approximation (9) with respect the time and using the identity (33), we obtain
We multiply this equality by and , and integrate over Ω, we obtain
and
Summing (53) and (54) and absorbing , we get
where is defined by
We will now estimate the initial value of . By Equation (9) taken at , we have
Using Proposition 1, the estimate of can be obtained as follows
and
By using the Sobolev embedding of into , and the fact that is bounded in , we deduce from (55), (56) and (57) by Gronwall’s lemma the boundedness of in .
Now, we pass to the limit as . From previous estimates, one can extract a subsequence of satisfying
and
According to Aubin–Lions Lemma 2, for a not relabeled subsequence
and
So, we can take the limit in (9) to obtain that satisfies
and the proof of Theorem 3 is complete. □
Asymptotic behaviour of weak solutions
We shall establish to relationships between the LLBar equation and both LLB and Harmonic map equations. We begin by the following result.
Let. The weak solutionof the problem (
6
) weakly converges, up to a subsequence, to a weak solution of the LLB equation, i.e,for all 2D-periodic function test. Moreover, the following estimate holds
From the previous section, the following estimate holds
Then we get the boundedness of in , and of in . Since we are interested in the case where , we can assume that , then by a density argument for in , we obtain
with C is a positive constant independent of ε. Then
Therefore, for a subsequence, we have
Apply the compactness Lemma 2, one has
Now, we can pass to the limit in the weak formulation
we obtain
for all which is 2D-periodic.
Taking the lower semi-continuous limit () in (60), we get (59). Then Proposition 2 is proved. □
Our second result in this subsection is the following.
Considerand. Letbe a weak solution of the LLB equation and set, thenconverge weakly up to a subsequence, to a weak solution of the harmonic map equation, i.e.,for all 2D-periodic function test.
Using the estimates (59), we deduce that
Multiply both sides of (62) by leads to
for some constant C independent of η. For η small enough
and
So for a subsequence
and
Multiply now both sides of (62) by , we get
We now can pass to the limit () in each terms of (64) to find
for all , that is is a periodic solution of the harmonic map equation in the distribution sense. This complete the proof of Proposition 3. □
Conclusion
In this manuscript, a LLBar equation is investigated and global existence result of weak solutions is obtained. A local well-posedness result is also obtained. The relationships between the LLBar equation and both LLB and harmonic map equations are revealed by discussing the limit of the obtained solutions when the relativistic and exchange relaxation damping parameters tends to zero. Recently, the field of numerical analysis of micromagnetic materials has witnessed significant advancements, as evidenced by a multitude of notable research contributions exploring novel simulation techniques, more accurate modeling algorithms, and enhanced computational methodologies, we refer for example to [12–14,24,26,27]. Based on these pioneering works, an interesting direction of future research is to explore numerical schemes for LLBar equation in order to reflect the true nature of the model considered in this paper. Finally, introducing noninteger/fractional order derivatives represents a challenge to find effective methods for the time-domain analysis of fractional-order LLBar equation.
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