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Crystalline defects critically influence material properties, necessitating accurate simulation methods. Existing approaches, from atomic-scale configurations to continuum elasticity, face inherent limitations in modeling…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-09 Xinyi Wei , Yangshuai Wang , Kai Jiang , Lei Zhang

We develop a fully continuous model for colloidal suspensions with hydrodynamic interactions. The Navier Stokes Phase Field Crystal (NS-PFC) model combines ideas of dynamic density functional theory with particulate flow approaches and is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-27 Simon Praetorius , Axel Voigt

Phase-field simulation (PFS) have revolutionized the understanding of domain structure and switching behavior in ferroelectric thin films and ceramics. Generally, PFS is based on solution of a (set) of Ginzburg-Landau equations for a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-04 Ye Cao , Sergei V. Kalinin

Based on static and dynamical density functional theory, a phase-field-crystal model is derived which involves both the translational density and the orientational degree of ordering as well as a local director field. The model exhibits…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Hartmut Löwen

The dynamics of glass formation in monatomic and binary liquids are studied numerically using a microscopic field theory for the evolution of the time-averaged atomic number density. A stochastic framework combining phase field crystal free…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Joel Berry , Martin Grant

Highly anisotropic interfaces play an important role in the development of material microstructure. Using the diffusive atomistic phase-field crystal (PFC) formalism, we determine the capability of the model to quantitatively describe these…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-29 Nana Ofori-Opoku , James A. Warren , Peter W. Voorhees

In recent years, simulation methods based on the scaling of atomic potential functions, such as quasi-coarse-grained dynamics and coarse-grained dynamics, have shown promising results for modeling crystalline systems at multiple scales.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Dong-Dong Jiang , Jian-Li Shao

We apply the phase field crystal model to study the structure and energy of symmetric tilt grain boundaries of bcc iron in 3D. The parameters for the model are obtained by using a recently developed eight-order fitting scheme [A. Jaatinen…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-06-29 A. Jaatinen , C. V. Achim , K. R. Elder , T. Ala-Nissila

While biological crystallization processes have been studied on the microscale extensively, models addressing the mesoscale aspects of such phenomena are rare. In this work, we investigate whether the phase-field theory developed in…

We introduce a dislocation density tensor and derive its kinematic evolution law from a phase field description of crystal deformations in three dimensions. The phase field crystal (PFC) model is used to define the lattice distortion,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-06 Vidar Skogvoll , Luiza Angheluta , Audun Skaugen , Marco Salvalaglio , Jorge Viñals

The active phase-field-crystal (active PFC) model provides a simple microscopic mean field description of crystallization in active systems. It combines the PFC model (or conserved Swift-Hohenberg equation) of colloidal crystallization and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-10 Lukas Ophaus , Edgar Knobloch , Svetlana V. Gurevich , Uwe Thiele

Effects of three-point direct correlation on properties of the phase field crystal (PFC) modeling are examined, for the control of various ordered and disordered phases and their coexistence in both three-dimensional and two-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-15 Zi-Le Wang , Zhirong Liu , Wenhui Duan , Zhi-Feng Huang

Phase field models have been applied in recent years to grain boundaries in single-component systems. The models are based on the minimization of a free energy functional, which is constructed phenomenologically rather than being derived…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Gunnar Pruessner , A. P. Sutton

We present thermodynamic relationships between the free energy of the phase-field crystal (PFC) model and thermodynamic state variables for bulk phases under hydrostatic pressure. This relationship is derived based on the thermodynamic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-09 Victor W. L. Chan , Nirand Pisutha-Arnond , Katsuyo Thornton

Recent developments of imaging techniques enable researchers to visualize materials at the atomic resolution to better understand the microscopic structures of materials. This paper aims at automatic and quantitative characterization of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-11 Jianfeng Lu , Haizhao Yang

In materials science the phase field crystal approach has become popular to model crystallization processes. Phase field crystal models are in essence Landau-Ginzburg-type models, which should be derivable from the underlying microscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-30 M. Oettel , S. Dorosz , M. Berghoff , B. Nestler , T. Schilling

We study the nonlinear driven response and sliding friction behavior of the phase-field-crystal (PFC) model with pinning including both thermal fluctuations and inertial effects. The model provides a continuous description of adsorbed…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-08 J. A. P. Ramos , E. Granato , S. C. Ying , C. V. Achim , K. R. Elder , T. Ala-Nissila

A continuum density-field formulation with particle-scale resolution is constructed to simultaneously incorporate the orientation dependence of interparticle interactions and the rotational invariance of the system, a fundamental but…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-28 Zi-Le Wang , Zhirong Liu , Zhi-Feng Huang

We apply a simple dynamical density functional theory, the phase-field crystal (PFC) model of overdamped conservative dynamics, to address polymorphism, crystal nucleation, and crystal growth in the diffusion-controlled limit. We refine the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Gyula I. Tóth , György Tegze , Tamás Pusztai , László Gránásy

The phase field crystal model allows the study of materials on atomic length and diffusive time scales. It accounts for elastic and plastic deformation in crystal lattices, including several processes such as growth, dislocation dynamics,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-07 Marcello De Donno , Marco Salvalaglio