Reference
The Spirit framework is a scientific project. If you present and/or publish scientific results or visualizations that used Spirit, please always cite the Spirit paper, the (version-independent) Zenodo entry for Spirit, and mention the version.
Framework
When referring to Spirit as a scientific project, please Cite:
@article{spiritPaper,
title = {Spirit: Multifunctional framework for atomistic spin simulations},
author = {M\"uller, Gideon P. and Hoffmann, Markus and Di\ss{}elkamp, Constantin and Sch\"urhoff, Daniel and Mavros, Stefanos and Sallermann, Moritz and Kiselev, Nikolai S. and J\'onsson, Hannes and Bl\"ugel, Stefan},
journal = {Phys. Rev. B},
volume = {99},
issue = {22},
pages = {224414},
numpages = {16},
year = {2019},
month = {Jun},
publisher = {American Physical Society},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.99.224414},
url = {https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.224414}
}
G. P. Müller, M. Hoffmann, C. Disselkamp, D. Schürhoff, S. Mavros, M. Sallermann, N. S. Kiselev, H. Jónsson, S. Blügel. “Spirit: Multifunctional framework for atomistic spin simulations.” Phys. Rev. B 99, 224414 (2019)
If you used Spirit to produce scientific results, please cite
@misc{spiritCode,
author = {Müller, Gideon P. and Sallermann, Moritz and Mavros, Stefanos and Rhiem, Florian and Schürhoff, Daniel and Hoffmann, Markus and Meyer, Ingo and Disselkamp, Constantin and Redies, Matthias and Buhl, Patrick and Suckert, Jens Rene and Ivanov, Aleksei V. and Kiselev, Nikolai S. and Jónsson, Hannes and Blügel, Stefan},
title = {{SPIRIT}},
month = mar,
year = 2023,
publisher = {Zenodo},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.7746552},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7746552},
howpublished = {Zenodo}
}
G. P. Müller, M. Sallermann, S. Mavros, F. Rhiem, D. Schürhoff, M. Hoffmann, I. Meyer, C. Disselkamp, M. Redies, P. Buhl, J. R. Suckert, A. V. Ivanov, N. S. Kiselev, H. Jónsson, S. Blügel (2023). spirit-code/spirit: New Desktop GUI, update to C++14 (v2.2.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7746552
You may need to update the DOI and Zenodo URL to the specific version you were using.
Source Code
When referring to specific sections of code you may also reference our GitHub page. You may use e.g. the following TeX code:
@misc{spiritWeb,
author = {},
title = {{Spirit spin simulation framework}},
howpublished = {\url{https://spirit-code.github.io}}
}
Spirit spin simulation framework (see https://spirit-code.github.io)
Specific Methods
The following need only be cited if used.
Depondt Solver
This Heun-like method for solving the LLG equation including the stochastic term has been published by Depondt et al.: http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/21/33/336005 You may use e.g. the following TeX code:
\bibitem{Depondt}
Ph. Depondt et al. \textit{J. Phys. Condens. Matter} \textbf{21}, 336005 (2009).
SIB Solver
This stable method for solving the LLG equation efficiently and including the stochastic term has been published by Mentink et al.: http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/22/17/176001 You may use e.g. the following TeX code:
\bibitem{SIB}
J. H. Mentink et al. \textit{J. Phys. Condens. Matter} \textbf{22}, 176001 (2010).
VP Solver
This intuitive direct minimization routine has been published as supplementary material by Bessarab et al.: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010465515002696 You may use e.g. the following TeX code:
\bibitem{VP}
P. F. Bessarab et al. \textit{Comp. Phys. Comm.} \textbf{196}, 335 (2015).
GNEB Method
This specialized nudged elastic band method for calculating transition paths of spin systems has been published by Bessarab et al.: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010465515002696 You may use e.g. the following TeX code:
\bibitem{GNEB}
P. F. Bessarab et al. \textit{Comp. Phys. Comm.} \textbf{196}, 335 (2015).
HTST
The harmonic transition state theory for calculating transition rates of spin systems has been published by Bessarab et al.: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.184409 You may use e.g. the following TeX code:
\bibitem{GNEB}
P. F. Bessarab et al. \textit{Comp. Phys. Comm.} \textbf{196}, 335 (2015).
MMF Method
The mode following method, intended for saddle point searches, has been published by Müller et al.: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.197202 You may use e.g. the following TeX code:
\bibitem{MMF}
G. P. Müller et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 197202 (2018).