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The discrete dislocation dynamics of multiple dislocation loops

Analysis of PDEs 2025-04-07 v2

Abstract

We consider a nonlocal reaction-diffusion equation that physically arises from the classical Peierls-Nabarro model for dislocations in crystalline structures. Our initial configuration corresponds to multiple slip loop dislocations in Rn\mathbb{R}^n, n2n \geq 2. After suitably rescaling the equation with a small phase parameter ε>0\varepsilon>0, the rescaled solution solves a fractional Allen-Cahn equation. We show that, as ε0\varepsilon \to 0, the limiting solution exhibits multiple interfaces evolving independently and according to their mean curvature.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2406.14793,
  title  = {The discrete dislocation dynamics of multiple dislocation loops},
  author = {Stefania Patrizi and Mary Vaughan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.14793},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

57 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

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