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The two-dimensionality of graphene and other layered materials can be exploited to simplify the theoretical description of their plasmonic and polaritonic modes. We present an analytical theory that allows us to simulate these excitations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Renwen Yu , Joel D. Cox , J. R. M. Saavedra , F. Javier García de Abajo

Strain-engineered graphene has garnered much attention recently owing to the possibilities of creating substantial energy gaps enabled by pseudo-magnetic fields. While theoretical works proposed the possibility of creating large-area…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 M. Luo , H. Sun , Z. Qi , K. Lu , M. Chen , D. Kang , Y. Kim , D. Burt , X. Yu , C. Wang , Y. D. Kim , H. Wang , Q. -J. Wang , D. Nam

The phase-field-crystal model for liquid crystals is solved numerically in two spatial dimensions. This model is formulated with three position-dependent order parameters, namely the reduced translational density, the local nematic order…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-28 Cristian Vasile Achim , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

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…

Polycrystalline graphene has an inherent tendency to buckle, i.e. develop out-of-plane, three-dimensional structure. A force applied to stretch a piece of polycrystalline graphene influences the out-of-plane structure. Even if the graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-28 Federico D'Ambrosio , Vladimir Juričić , Gerard T. Barkema

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

We consider a modification of the so-called phase-field crystal (PFC) equation introduced by K.R. Elder et al. This variant has recently been proposed by P. Stefanovic et al. to distinguish between elastic relaxation and diffusion time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

In this paper we propose and analyze an energy stable numerical scheme for the square phase field crystal (SPFC) equation, a gradient flow modeling crystal dynamics at the atomic scale in space but on diffusive scales in time. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Kelong Cheng , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise

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

A theoretical model supported by experimental results explains the dependence of the Raman scattering signal on the evolution of structural parameters along the amorphization trajectory of polycrystalline graphene systems. Four parameters…

We present a technique for analyzing the full three-dimensional density profiles of a planar crystal-fluid interface in terms of density modes. These density modes can also be related to crystallinity order parameter profiles which are used…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Oettel

In this paper we provide a detailed convergence analysis for an unconditionally energy stable, second-order accurate convex splitting scheme for the Modified Phase Field Crystal equation, a generalized damped wave equation for which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-08 Arvind Baskaran , John Lowengrub , Cheng Wang , Steve Wise

Condense phase molecular systems organize in wide range of distinct molecular configurations, including amorphous melt and glass as well as crystals often exhibiting polymorphism, that originate from their intricate intra- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Brian H. Lee , James P. Larentzos , John K. Brennan , Alejandro Strachan

A new formulation of the Phase Field Crystal model is presented that is consistent with the necessary microscopic independence between the phase field, reflecting the broken symmetry of the phase, and both mass density and elastic…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-09 Amit Acharya , Jorge Viñals

We introduce a phenomenological continuum model for mode III dynamic fracture that is based on the phase-field methodology used extensively to model interfacial pattern formation. We couple a scalar field, which distinguishes between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Alain Karma , David A. Kessler , Herbert Levine

Conventional three-dimensional crystal lattices are terminated by surfaces, which can demonstrate complex rebonding and rehybridisation, localised strain and dislocation formation. Two dimensional crystal lattices, of which graphene is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-23 Viktoria V. Ivanovskaya , Philipp Wagner , Alberto Zobelli , Irene Suarez-Martinez , Abu Yaya , Christopher P. Ewels

We present a phase field model (PFM) for simulating complex crack patterns including crack propagation, branching and coalescence in rock. The phase field model is implemented in COMSOL and is based on the strain decomposition for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-19 Shuwei Zhou , Xiaoying Zhuang , Hehua Zhu , Timon Rabczuk

Predicting the evolving microstructure of hydrating cement is essential for understanding and modeling its mechanical property development. Physics-based continuum approaches offer a rigorous framework for capturing the thermodynamics of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Alexandre Sac-Morane , Katerina Ioannidou , Manolis Veveakis , Hadrien Rattez

Over the past few decades, the phase-field method for fracture has seen widespread appeal due to the many benefits associated with its ability to regularize a sharp crack geometry. Along the way, several different models for including the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Andre Costa , Tianchen Hu , John Dolbow

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