File:Spin wave.gif

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English: Spin waves are an intrinsically quantum phenomenon, so they are hard to visualize. But if we think in term of magnetization we can get a general picture of what it is going on, and how a point excitation propagates in the medium.

Obtained integrating the Landau–Lifshitz equation on a square grid, where each "spin" feels an effective magnetic field proportional to the sum of its scalar products with its 4 nearest neighbours.

It's a toy model, but it gives the general idea.
Date
Source https://twitter.com/j_bertolotti/status/1372550090083155970
Author Jacopo Bertolotti
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https://twitter.com/j_bertolotti/status/1030470604418428929

Mathematica 12.0 code

\[Gamma] = 1; \[Lambda] = 0.05; dt = 0.05; J = 0.2;
steps = 500;
nx = 21; ny = 21; n = nx*ny;
adjacency = Normal@AdjacencyMatrix[GridGraph[{nx, ny}] ];
M0 = Table[{0, 0, 1}, {n}];
M = M0; M[[Floor[nx/2]*ny   Floor[ny/2]   1]] = {1, 1, 0};
Graphics3D[{
  Flatten@Table[Line[{{Mod[j, Sqrt[n], 1], Quotient[j, Sqrt[n], 1]   1, 0}, {Mod[j, Sqrt[n], 1], Quotient[j, Sqrt[n], 1]   1, 0}   M[[j]]} ], {j, 1, n}] }, PlotRange -> {{Sqrt[n]/4, 3/4 Sqrt[n]   1}, {Sqrt[n]/4,     3/4 Sqrt[n]   1}, {-0.25, 1}}]
evo = Reap[Do[
     M = (#/Norm[#] &) /@ M;
     Hext = J*adjacency . M;
     M = Table[ M[[j]]   dt*(-\[Gamma] Cross[M[[j]], Hext[[j]] ] - \[Lambda] Cross[ M[[j]], Cross[M[[j]], Hext[[j]] ]]), {j, 1, n}];
     Sow[M];
     , {steps}]][[2, 1]];
\[Alpha] = 1;
frames = Table[Graphics3D[{
     Black,
     Table[ Sphere[{Mod[j, Sqrt[n], 1], Quotient[j, Sqrt[n], 1]   1, 0}, 0.08], {j, 1, n}],
     Table[ Sphere[{Mod[j, Sqrt[n], 1], Quotient[j, Sqrt[n], 1]   1, 0}   \[Alpha]*evo[[k, j]], 0.05], {j, 1, n}],
     Thick, 
     Flatten@Table[ Line[{{Mod[j, Sqrt[n], 1], Quotient[j, Sqrt[n], 1]   1, 0}, {Mod[j, Sqrt[n], 1], Quotient[j, Sqrt[n], 1]   1, 0}   \[Alpha]*evo[[k, j]]} ], {j, 1, n}],
     Red,
     Table[ Line[({Mod[j, Sqrt[n], 1], Quotient[j, Sqrt[n], 1]   1, 0}   # &) /@ (\[Alpha]*evo[[Max[1, k - 50] ;; k, j]]) ], {j, 1, n}],
     Gray, 
     Cuboid[{Sqrt[n]/4, Sqrt[n]/4, 0}, {3 Sqrt[n]/4   1, 3 Sqrt[n]/4   1, -0.2}]
     }, PlotRange -> {{Sqrt[n]/4, 3/4 Sqrt[n]   1}, {Sqrt[n]/4, 3/4 Sqrt[n]   1}, {-0.25, \[Alpha]   0.1}}, ImageSize -> 500, 
    Lighting -> "Neutral", Boxed -> False]
   , {k, 2, steps/1, 4}];
ListAnimate[frames]

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Simplified visualization of a spin wave

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