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The free energy landscape responsible for crystallization can be complex even for relatively simple systems like hard sphere and charged stabilized colloids. In this work, using hard-core repulsive Yukawa model, which is known to show…

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We present a derivation of the recently proposed eighth order phase field crystal model [Jaatinen et al., Phys. Rev. E 80, 031602 (2009)] for the crystallization of a solid from an undercooled melt. The model is used to study the planar…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Jaatinen , T. Ala-Nissila

Fractal patterns are observed in computational mechanics of elastic-plastic transitions in two models of linear elastic/perfectly-plastic random heterogeneous materials: (1) a composite made of locally isotropic grains with weak random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Li , M. Ostoja-Starzewski

We study the carrier concentration bistabilities that occur to a highly photo-excited electron gas. The kinetics of this non-equilibrium electron gas is given by a set of nonlinear rate equations. For low temperatures and cw…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-16 M. A. Rodriguez-Meza

A vector order parameter phase field model derived from a grand potential functional is presented as a new approach for modeling polycrystalline solidification of alloys. In this approach, the grand potential density is designed to contain…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-02 Tatu Pinomaa , Nana Ofori-Opoku , Anssi Laukkanen , Nikolas Provatas

By extending the nonequilibrium potential refinement algorithm and lattice switch method to the semigrand ensemble, the semigrand potentials of the fcc and hcp structures of polydisperse hard-sphere crystals are calculated with the bias…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Mingcheng Yang , Hongru Ma

A polycrystalline solid is modelled as an ensemble of random irregular polyhedra filling the entire space occupied by the solid body, leaving no voids or flaws between them. Adjacent grains can slide with a relative velocity proportional to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-03 Miguel Lagos

In this paper the relaxed micromorphic continuum model with weighted free and gradient micro-inertia is used to describe the dynamical behavior of a real two-dimensional phononic crystal for a wide range of wavelengths. In particular, a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-10-14 Angela Madeo , Manuel Collet , Marco Miniaci , Kévin Billon , Morvan Ouisse , Patrizio Neff

Understanding polymorph selection in atomic and molecular systems and its control through thermodynamic conditions and external factors (such as seed characteristics) is fundamental to the design of targeted materials and holds great…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-18 Abhilasha Kumari , Gadha Ramesh , Debasish Koner , Rakesh S. Singh , Mantu Santra

The standard way of modeling plasticity in polycrystals is by using the crystal plasticity model for single crystals in each grain, and imposing suitable traction and slip boundary conditions across grain boundaries. In this fashion, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Nikhil Chandra Admal , Giacomo Po , Jaime Marian

In this paper we present two unconditionally energy stable finite difference schemes for the Modified Phase Field Crystal (MPFC) equation, a sixth-order nonlinear damped wave equation, of which the purely parabolic Phase Field Crystal (PFC)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Arvind Baskaran , Peng Zhou , Zhengzheng Hu , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise , John S. Lowengrub

The rotationally-covariant renormalization group equations of motion for the density wave amplitudes in the phase field crystal model are shown to follow from a dynamical equation driven by an effective free energy density that we derive.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-12-23 Pak Yuen Chan , Nigel Goldenfeld

We determine the limiting dynamics of a fermionic condensate following a sudden perturbation for various initial conditions. We demonstrate that possible initial states of the condensate fall into two classes. In the first case, the order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Emil A. Yuzbashyan , Oleksandr Tsyplyatyev , Boris L. Altshuler

We present a computer simulation study of the crystalline phases of hard ellipsoids of revolution. A previous study [Phys. Rev. E, \textbf{75}, 020402 (2007)] showed that for aspect ratios $a/b\ge 3$ the previously suggested stretched-fcc…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Radu , P. Pfleiderer , T. Schilling

We present a phase field crystal model for driven systems which describes competing effects between thermally activated diffusional processes and those driven by externally imposed ballistic events. The model demonstrates how the mesoscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Nana Ofori-Opoku , Jeffrey J. Hoyt , Nikolas Provatas

A phase field crystal model is used to investigate the mechanisms of formation and growth of early clusters in quenched/aged dilute binary alloys, a phenomenon typically outside the scope of molecular dynamics time scales. We show that…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-05 Vahid Fallah , Jonathan Stolle , Nana Ofori-Opoku , Shahrzad Esmaeili , Nikolas Provatas

We study a mixture of fermionic and bosonic cold atoms on a two-dimensional optical lattice, where the fermions are prepared in two hyperfine (isospin) states and the bosons have Bose-Einstein condensed (BEC). The coupling between the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-10-30 F. D. Klironomos , S. -W. Tsai

We study numerically the phase diagram and the response under a driving force of the phase field crystal model for pinned lattice systems introduced recently for both one and two dimensional systems. The model describes the lattice system…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-30 C. V. Achim , J. A. P. Ramos , M. Karttunen , K. R. Elder , E. Granato , T. Ala-Nissila , S. C. Ying

A computational method is developed for the study of mechanical response and fracture behavior of phase field crystals (PFC), to overcome a limitation of the PFC dynamics which lacks an effective mechanism for describing fast mechanical…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-04 Wenquan Zhou , Jincheng Wang , Zhijun Wang , Zhi-Feng Huang

The Burton-Cabrera-Frank (BCF) model for the flow of line defects (steps) on crystal surfaces has offered useful insights into nanostructure evolution. This model has rested on phenomenological grounds. Our goal is to show via scaling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jianfeng Lu , Jian-Guo Liu , Dionisios Margetis