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}We present a formalism for extending the second moment tight-binding model, incorporating ferro- and anti-ferromagn etic interaction terms which are needed for the FeCr system. For antiferromagnetic and paramagnetic materials, an explicit…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-12-18 G. J. Ackland , D. J. Hepburn , J. Wallenius

With this contribution, we give a complete and comprehensive framework for modeling the dynamics of complex mechanical structures as port-Hamiltonian systems. This is motivated by research on the potential of lightweight construction using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Alexander Warsewa , Michael Böhm , Oliver Sawodny , Cristina Tarín

The embedded atom method (EAM) is one of the most widely used many-body, short-range potentials in molecular dynamics simulations, particularly for metallic systems. To enhance the efficiency of calculating these short-range interactions,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-25 Jieqiong Zhang , Jizu Huang , Zihao Yang

Accuracy of molecular dynamics simulations depends crucially on the interatomic potential used to generate forces. The gold standard would be first-principles quantum mechanics (QM) calculations, but these become prohibitively expensive at…

Cluster expansions are commonly employed as surrogate models to link the electronic structure of an alloy to its finite-temperature properties. Using cluster expansions to model materials with several alloying elements is challenging due to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-31 Yann L. Müller , Anirudh Raju Natarajan

A multiscale QM/classical approach is presented, that is able to model the optical properties of complex nanostructures composed of a molecular system adsorbed on metal nanoparticles. The latter are described by a combined…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Pablo Grobas Illobre , Piero Lafiosca , Luca Bonatti , Tommaso Giovannini , Chiara Cappelli

Atomistic simulations of liquid alloys face the challenge of correctly modeling basic thermodynamic properties. In this work we present an interatomic potential for the Li-Pb system, as well as a study of physical properties of Li-Pb…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 Alberto Fraile , Santiago Cuesta-López , Alfredo Caro , Daniel Schwen , J. Manuel Perlado

In order to study the performance of interatomic potentials and their reliability at higher pressures, the phase diagram of four different embedded-atom type potential models of iron is compared. The calculations were done by the nested…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-23 Livia B. Partay

We propose a modification of the embedded-atom method-type potential aiming at reconciling simulated melting and ground-state properties of metals by means of classical molecular dynamics. Considering titanium, magnesium, gold, and platinum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-15 Gennady Sushko , Alexey Verkhovtsev , Christian Kexel , Andrei V. Korol , Stefan Schramm , Andrey V. Solov'yov

Fluid dynamics plays a crucial role in various multiphysics applications, including energy systems, electronics cooling, and biomedical engineering. Developing models for complex coupled systems can be challenging and time-consuming. In…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Markus Lohmayer , Michael Kraus , Sigrid Leyendecker

We present an analytic ansatz to find the effective electrostatic potential and Coulomb correlations in multicenter problems, specifically homogeneous and doped clusters of metal atoms. The approach is based on a quasi-classical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Despa , R. S. Berry

Large-scale simulations of plastic deformation and phase transformations in alloys require reliable classical interatomic potentials. We construct an embedded-atom method potential for niobium as the first step in alloy potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-27 Michael R. Fellinger , Hyoungki Park , John W. Wilkins

A general method is presented for modeling high entropy alloys as ensembles of randomly sampled, ordered configurations on a given lattice. Statistical mechanics is applied post hoc to derive the ensemble properties as a function of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-24 Andrew Novick , Quan Nguyen , Roman Garnett , Eric Toberer , Vladan Stevanović

Choice of appropriate force field is one of the main concerns of any atomistic simulation that needs to be seriously considered in order to yield reliable results. Since, investigations on mechanical behavior of materials at micro/nanoscale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Seyed Moein Rassoulinejad-Mousavi , Yijin Mao , Yuwen Zhang

CrCoNi medium-entropy alloys exhibit exceptional mechanical properties arising from pronounced chemical complexity, including short-range order (SRO), and low stacking fault energy, posing challenges for large-scale atomistic simulations.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-27 Yong-Chao Wu , Tero Mäkinen , Mikko Alava , Amin Esfandiarpour

Total energies of crystal structures can be calculated to high precision using quantum-based density functional theory (DFT) methods, but the calculations can be time consuming and scale badly with system size. Cluster expansions of total…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-31 Qin Gao , Sanxi Yao , Jeff Schneider , Michael Widom

Computing equilibrium concentrations of molecular complexes is generally analytically intractable and requires numerical approaches. In this work we focus on the polymer-monomer level, where indivisible molecules (monomers) combine to form…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Hamidreza Akef , Minki Hhan , David Soloveichik

Isotropic pairwise interactions that promote the self assembly of complex particle morphologies have been discovered by inverse design strategies derived from the molecular coarse-graining literature. While such approaches provide an avenue…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-15 Beth A. Lindquist , Ryan B. Jadrich , Michael P. Howard , Thomas M. Truskett

Materials properties depend strongly on chemical composition, i.e., the relative amounts of each chemical element. Changes in composition lead to entirely different chemical arrangements, which vary in complexity from perfectly ordered…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-24 Killian Sheriff , Daniel Xiao , Yifan Cao , Lewis R. Owen , Rodrigo Freitas

Machine-learned interatomic potentials can offer near first-principles accuracy but are computationally expensive, limiting their application to large-scale molecular dynamics simulations. Inspired by quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-21 Fraser Birks , Matthew Nutter , Thomas D Swinburne , James R Kermode