Interpreting Force Response Patterns of a Mechanically Driven Crystallographic Phase Transition
Abstract
Mechanically induced crystallographic phase transformation that reflects dynamic stress responses of intrinsically stochastic nature is a pertinent yet much less well-understood phenomenon. We focus on understanding the physical significance of stochasticity and how it can enable inference of principles underlying a crystallographic phase transformation. For interpreting the mechanical responses, a statistical approach of mapping the transformation dynamics to a probabilistic escape of crystallographic states defined on a free energy landscape is shown to reliably explain the patterns of response. We demonstrate that stochastic responses associated with a structural phase transformation can offer a reliable quantitative tool for unravelling the energy profile, intrinsic kinetics, and microscopic details of solid-to-solid crystallographic transitions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2105.01574,
title = {Interpreting Force Response Patterns of a Mechanically Driven Crystallographic Phase Transition},
author = {Arijit Maitra and Bipin Singh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.01574},
year = {2021}
}