Reference

The Spirit framework is a scientific project. If you present and/or publish scientific results or visualisations that used Spirit, you should add a reference.

The Framework

If you used Spirit to produce scientific results or when referring to it as a scientific project, please cite the paper.

\bibitem{mueller_spirit_2019}{
    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 \textbf{99}, 224414 (2019)
}

When referring to code of this framework please add a reference to our GitHub page. You may use e.g. the following TeX code:

\bibitem{spirit}
{Spirit spin simulation framework} (see 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).

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