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We study the two dimensional Lennard-Jones energy per particle of lattices and we prove that the minimizer among Bravais lattices with sufficiently large density is triangular and that is not the case for sufficiently small density. We give…
We investigate lattice energies for radially symmetric, spatially extended particles interacting via a radial potential and arranged on the sites of a two-dimensional Bravais lattice. We show the global minimality of the triangular lattice…
We investigate the minimization of the energy per point $E\_f$ among $d$-dimensional Bravais lattices, depending on the choice of pairwise potential equal to a radially symmetric function $f(|x|^2)$. We formulate criteria for minimality and…
In this paper, we focus on finite Bravais lattice energies per point in two dimensions. We compute the first and second derivatives of these energies. We prove that the Hessian at the square and the triangular lattice are diagonal and we…
We consider a two-dimensional analogue of Jacobi theta functions and prove that, among all lattices $\Lambda \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ with fixed density, the minimal value is maximized by the hexagonal lattice. This result can be interpreted…
We study the local optimality of Simple Cubic, Body-Centred-Cubic and Face-Centred-Cubic lattices among Bravais lattices of fixed density for some finite energy per point. Following the work of Ennola [Math. Proc. Cambridge, 60:855--875,…
Consider the energy per particle on the lattice given by $\min_{ \Lambda }\sum_{ \mathbb{P}\in \Lambda} \left|\mathbb{P}\right|^4 e^{-\pi \alpha \left|\mathbb{P}\right|^2 }$, where $\alpha >0$ and $\Lambda$ is a two dimensional lattice. We…
It is well-known that any Lennard-Jones type potential energy must have a periodic ground state given by a triangular lattice in dimension 2. In this paper, we describe a computer-assisted method that rigorously shows such global minimality…
We give a sufficient condition on a family of radial parametrized long-range potentials for a compact local minimality of a given $d$-dimensional Bravais lattice for its total energy of interaction created by each potential. This work is…
We investigate the local and global optimality of the triangular, square, simple cubic, face-centred-cubic (FCC), body-centred-cubic (BCC) lattices and the hexagonal-close-packing (HCP) structure for a potential energy per point generated…
We consider pairwise interaction energies and we investigate their minimizers among lattices with prescribed minimal vectors (length and coordination number), i.e. the one corresponding to the crystal's bonds. In particular, we show the…
We present two families of lattice theta functions accompanying the family of lattice theta functions studied by Montgomery in [H.~Montgomery. Minimal theta functions. \textit{Glasgow Mathematical Journal}, 30(1):75--85, 1988]. The studied…
We study the minimality properties of a new type of "soft" theta functions. For a lattice $L\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, a $L$-periodic distribution of mass $\mu_L$ and an other mass $\nu_z$ centred at $z\in \mathbb{R}^d$, we define, for all…
We prove that the hexagonal lattice is a local minimizer, among all point configurations, of the interaction energy per unit volume for pair potentials that are completely monotonic functions of the square distance. This includes Gaussian…
We propose to extend the d'Humi\'eres version of the lattice Boltzmann scheme to triangular meshes. We use Bravais lattices or more general lattices with the property that the degree of each internal vertex is supposed to be constant. On…
We devise a new technique to prove two-dimensional crystallization results in the square lattice for finite particle systems. We apply this strategy to energy minimizers of configurational energies featuring two-body short-ranged particle…
Bravais lattices are the most fundamental building blocks of crystallography. They are classified into groups according to their translational, rotational, and inversion symmetries. In computational analysis of Bravais lattices, fulfilment…
We consider the minimization of theta functions $\theta\_\Lambda(\alpha)=\sum\_{p\in\Lambda}e^{-\pi\alpha|p|^2}$ amongst lattices $\Lambda\subset \mathbb R^d$, by reducing the dimension of the problem, following as a motivation the case…
We prove strong crystallization results in two dimensions for an energy that arises in the theory of block copolymers. The energy is defined on sets of points and their weights, or equivalently on the set of atomic measures. It consists of…
We study the pair interaction on flat tori of functions whose Fourier coefficients are positive and decay sufficiently rapidly. In dimension one we find that the minimizer, up to translation, is the equidistant point set. In dimension two,…