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We discuss an active phase field crystal (PFC) model that describes a mixture of active and passive particles. First, a microscopic derivation from dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) is presented that includes a systematic treatment…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-26 Michael te Vrugt , Max Philipp Holl , Aron Koch , Raphael Wittkowski , Uwe Thiele

We present a phase-field crystal (PFC) model for solidification that accounts for thermal transport and a temperature-dependent lattice parameter. Elasticity effects are characterized through the continuous elastic field computed from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-26 Maik Punke , Steven M. Wise , Axel Voigt , Marco Salvalaglio

The amplitude expansion for a magnetic phase-field-crystal (magnetic APFC) model enables a convenient coarse-grained description of crystalline structures under the influence of magnetic fields. Considering higher-order magnetic coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-01 Rainer Backofen , Marco Salvalaglio , Axel Voigt

We investigate bulk thermodynamic and microscopic structural properties of amorphous solids in the framework of the phase-field crystal (PFC) model. These are metastable states with a non-uniform density distribution having no long-range…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-11 Shaho Abdalla , Andrew J. Archer , László Gránásy , Gyula I. Tóth

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

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

The phase-field-crystal model is used to access the structure and thermodynamics of interfaces between two coexisting liquid crystalline phases in two spatial dimensions. Depending on the model parameters there is a variety of possible…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-28 Simon Praetorius , Axel Voigt , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

By using a phase-field crystal (PFC) model, the liquid-crystal growth of the plastic triangular phase is simulated with emphasis on crystal shape and topological defect formation. The equilibrium shape of a plastic triangular crystal (PTC)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-07 Sai Tang , Simon Praetorius , Rainer Backofen , Axel Voigt , Yan-Mei Yu , Jincheng Wang

We present and discuss the development of an unconditionally stable algorithm used to solve the evolution equations of the Phase Field Crystal (PFC) model. This algorithm allows for an arbitrarily large algorithmic time step. As the basis…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mowei Cheng , James A. Warren

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

We derive the amplitude expansion for a phase-field-crystal (APFC) model that captures the basic physics of magneto-structural interactions. The symmetry breaking due to magnetization is demonstrated, and the characterization of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-02 Rainer Backofen , Marco Salvalaglio , Axel Voigt

The phase-field model (PFM) represents the crack geometry in a diffusive way without introducing sharp discontinuities. This feature enables PFM to effectively model crack propagation compared with numerical methods based on discrete crack…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Shuwei Zhou , Timon Rabczuk , Xiaoying Zhuang

The solidification of polycrystalline materials can be modelled by orientation-field models, which are formulated in terms of two continuous fields: a phase field that describes the thermodynamic state and an orientation field that…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Hervé Henry , Jesper Mellenthin , Mathis Plapp

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…

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

We address a three-dimensional, coarse-grained description of dislocation networks at grain boundaries between rotated crystals. The so-called amplitude expansion of the phase-field crystal model is exploited with the aid of finite element…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-31 Marco Salvalaglio , Rainer Backofen , K. R. Elder , Axel Voigt

We derive a phase field crystal model that couples the diffusive evolution of a microscopic structure with the fast dynamics of a macroscopic velocity field, explicitly accounting for the relaxation of elastic excitations. This model…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-26 Vidar Skogvoll , Marco Salvalaglio , Luiza Angheluta

Rapid solidification experiments on thin film aluminum samples reveal the presence of lattice orientation gradients within crystallizing grains. To study this phenomenon, a single-component phase-field crystal (PFC) model that captures the…

Rapid solidification leads to unique microstructural features, where a less studied topic is the formation of various crystalline defects, including high dislocation densities, as well as gradients and splitting of the crystalline…

As phase-field modeling (PFM) is booming across various disciplines and has been proven fitted for numerically modeling interfacial problems, we aim at taking a step back to revisit its fundamental validity, in the light of non-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-09 Alexandre Guevel , Hadrien Rattez , Sotiris Alevizos , Manolis Veveakis