Homogenization of nonlocal exchange energies in micromagnetics

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Main Authors: Giorgio, Rossella, Happ, Leon, Schönberger, Hidde
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author Giorgio, Rossella
Happ, Leon
Schönberger, Hidde
author_facet Giorgio, Rossella
Happ, Leon
Schönberger, Hidde
contents We study the homogenization of nonlocal micromagnetic functionals incorporating both symmetric and antisymmetric exchange contributions under the physical constraint that the magnetization field takes values in the unit sphere. Assuming that the nonlocal interaction range and the scale of heterogeneities vanish simultaneously, we capture the asymptotic behavior of the nonlocal energies by identifying their $Γ$-limit, leading to an effective local functional expressed through a tangentially constrained nonlocal cell problem. Our proof builds upon a tailored notion of two-scale convergence, which takes into account oscillations only in specific directions. It enables us to describe the two-scale limit of suitable nonlocal difference quotients, yielding a nonlocal analog of the classical limit decomposition result for gradient fields. To deal with the manifold constraint of the magnetization, we additionally prove that the microscopic oscillations in the two-scale limit are constrained to lie in the tangent space of the sphere.
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spellingShingle Homogenization of nonlocal exchange energies in micromagnetics
Giorgio, Rossella
Happ, Leon
Schönberger, Hidde
Analysis of PDEs
49J45, 35B27, 47G20
We study the homogenization of nonlocal micromagnetic functionals incorporating both symmetric and antisymmetric exchange contributions under the physical constraint that the magnetization field takes values in the unit sphere. Assuming that the nonlocal interaction range and the scale of heterogeneities vanish simultaneously, we capture the asymptotic behavior of the nonlocal energies by identifying their $Γ$-limit, leading to an effective local functional expressed through a tangentially constrained nonlocal cell problem. Our proof builds upon a tailored notion of two-scale convergence, which takes into account oscillations only in specific directions. It enables us to describe the two-scale limit of suitable nonlocal difference quotients, yielding a nonlocal analog of the classical limit decomposition result for gradient fields. To deal with the manifold constraint of the magnetization, we additionally prove that the microscopic oscillations in the two-scale limit are constrained to lie in the tangent space of the sphere.
title Homogenization of nonlocal exchange energies in micromagnetics
topic Analysis of PDEs
49J45, 35B27, 47G20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13262