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Discretization error in micromagnetics


  • Magnetic moment of discrete atoms
  • Micromagnetics: Approximation by a continuous function for the magnetization distribution (smoothing error)
  • Discretization using a regular grid or a finite element mesh (discretization error)

On a too coarse mesh

  • large angles between neighbouring magnetization vectors
  • domain wall collapse
M. J. Donahue, Journal of Applied Physics, 83 (1998) 6491

Werner Scholz