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Solution landscapes of the diblock copolymer-homopolymer model under two-dimensional confinement

Soft Condensed Matter 2021-08-04 v1 Computational Physics

Abstract

We investigate the solution landscapes of the confined diblock copolymer and homopolymer in two-dimensional domain by using the extended Ohta--Kawasaki model. The projected saddle dynamics method is developed to compute the saddle points with mass conservation and construct the solution landscape by coupling with downward/upward search algorithms. A variety of novel stationary solutions are identified and classified in the solution landscape, including Flower class, Mosaic class, Core-shell class, and Tai-chi class. The relationships between different stable states are shown by either transition pathways connected by index-1 saddle points or dynamical pathways connected by a high-index saddle point. The solution landscapes also demonstrate the symmetry-breaking phenomena, in which more solutions with high symmetry are found when the domain size increases.

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@article{arxiv.2101.10764,
  title  = {Solution landscapes of the diblock copolymer-homopolymer model under two-dimensional confinement},
  author = {Zhen Xu and Yucen Han and Jianyuan Yin and Bing Yu and Yasumasa Nishiura and Lei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.10764},
  year   = {2021}
}

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9 pages, 8 figures