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Spanning over a wide range of length and time scales, magnetism is one of the most fascinating states of matter and one that poses many challenges to theory. Here we briefly review how different state-of-the-art approaches to the modeling of the magnetic order interface with each other and provide a complete toolset to explore this fascinating area of condensed matter theory. Methods include accurate quantum-mechanical approaches, such as density functional theory both in its static and dynamical version, atomistic spin dynamics tools, and continuum models to be solved in a finite difference framework.
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This work is supported by the Science Foundation Ireland (Grant No. 14/IA/2624).
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Sanvito, S. (2020). Modeling Tools for Magnetism, Magnetic Materials, and Spintronics: Overview. In: Andreoni, W., Yip, S. (eds) Handbook of Materials Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44677-6_94
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