Local Relaxation and Collective Stochastic Dynamics

TL;DR

This paper investigates how local relaxation processes influence collective stochastic dynamics in coupled magnetic grains, revealing that interactions cause local damping to manifest in the system's normal modes, contrasting with phenomenological models.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis connecting local relaxation to collective stochastic behavior in magnetic systems without prior assumptions, emphasizing the role of system symmetry and coupling.

Findings

Collective stochastic dynamics emerge from local relaxation processes.

System symmetry influences the form of damping.

Coupling strength affects the nature of stochastic behavior.

Abstract

Damping and thermal fluctuations have been introduced to collective normal modes of a magnetic system in recent modeling of dynamic thermal magnetization processes. The connection between this collective stochastic dynamics and physical local relaxation processes is investigated here. A system of two coupled magnetic grains embedded in two separate oscillating thermal baths is analyzed with no \QTR{it}{a priori} assumptions except that of a Markovian process. It is shown explicitly that by eliminating the oscillating thermal bath variables, collective stochastic dynamics occurs in the normal modes of the magnetic system. The grain interactions cause local relaxation to be felt by the collective system and the dynamic damping to reflect the system symmetry. This form of stochastic dynamics is in contrast to a common phenomenological approach where a thermal field is added independently to the dynamic equations of each discretized cell or interacting grain. The dependence of this collective stochastic dynamics on the coupling strength of the magnetic grains and the relative local damping is discussed.