TY - JOUR T1 - Energetics and switching of quasi-uniform states in small ferromagnetic particles JF - M2AN Math. Model. Numer. Anal. 38 (2004) 235-248 Y1 - 2004 A1 - François Alouges A1 - Sergio Conti A1 - Antonio DeSimone A1 - Ivo Pokern AB - We present a numerical algorithm to solve the micromagnetic equations based on tangential-plane minimization for the magnetization update and a homothethic-layer decomposition of outer space for the computation of the demagnetization field. As a first application, detailed results on the flower-vortex transition in the cube of Micromagnetic Standard Problem number 3 are obtained, which confirm, with a different method, those already present in the literature, and validate our method and code. We then turn to switching of small cubic or almost-cubic particles, in the single-domain limit. Our data show systematic deviations from the Stoner-Wohlfarth model due to the non-ellipsoidal shape of the particle, and in particular a non-monotone dependence on the particle size. PB - EDP Sciences UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2999 U1 - 1334 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER -