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We report on a novel extension of the recent phase-field crystal (PFC) method introduced in [Elder et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 88, 245701:1-4 (2002)], which incorporates elastic interactions as well as crystal plasticity and diffusive…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter Stefanovic , Mikko Haataja , Nikolas Provatas

The interface stresses at of the solid-melt interface are, in general, anisotropic. The anisotropy in the interfacial stress can be evaluated using molecular dynamics (MD) and phase field crystal (PFC) models. In this paper, we report our…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-01 Sushil Kumar , Ming-Wei Liu , Kuo-An Wu , M P Gururajan

We propose to incorporate grain boundary (GB) anisotropy in phase-field modeling by extending the standard partial differential equations formulation to include a nonlocal functional of an orientation field. Regardless of the number of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-09 Xiao Han , Axel van de Walle

We extend the phase field crystal (PFC) framework to quantitative modeling of polycrystalline graphene. PFC modeling is a powerful multiscale method for finding the ground state configurations of large realistic samples that can be further…

In order to address the growth of crystals in veins, a multiphase-field model is used to capture the dynamics of crystals precipitating from a super-saturated solution. To gain a detailed understanding of the polycrystal growth phenomena in…

Geophysics · Physics 2013-10-21 Kumar Ankit , Britta Nestler , Michael Selzer , Mathias Reichardt

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

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

Atomically thin 2-dimensional heterostructures are a promising, novel class of materials with groundbreaking properties. The possiblity of choosing the many constituent components and their proportions allows optimizing these materials to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Petri Hirvonen , Vili Heinonen , Haikuan Dong , Zheyong Fan , Ken R. Elder , Tapio Ala-Nissila

A nonlocal phase-field crystal (NPFC) model is presented as a nonlocal counterpart of the local phase-field crystal (LPFC) model and a special case of the structural PFC (XPFC) derived from classical field theory for crystal growth and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Qiang Du , Kai Wang , Jiang Yang

In a recent class of phase field crystal (PFC) models, the density order parameter is coupled to powers of its mean field. This effectively introduces a phenomenology of higher-order direct correlation functions acting on long wavelengths,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-21 Daniel L. Coelho , Duncan Burns , Emily Wilson , Nikolas Provatas

A phase-field model for diffusion-limited crystal growth is formulated that is capable of handling highly anisotropic interfaces. It uses a Willmore regularization that yields corners of finite size. An asymptotic analysis reveals that…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-26 Enugala Sumanth Nani , Thomas Philippe , Mathis Plapp

The phase diagram of prolate and oblate particles in the restricted orientations approximation (Zwanzig model) is calculated. Transitions to different inhomogeneous phases (smectic, columnar, oriented, or plastic solid) are studied through…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Yuri Martinez-Raton

A new phase field crystal (PFC) type theory is presented, which accounts for the full spectrum of solid-liquid-vapor phase transitions within the framework of a single density order parameter. Its equilibrium properties show the most…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Gabriel Kocher , Nikolas Provatas

In this research, atomistic molecular dynamics simulations are combined with mesoscopic phase-field computational methods in order to investigate phase-transformation in polycrystalline Aluminum microstructure. In fact, microstructural…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-03 Mehrdad Yousefi

Phase transition problems on curved surfaces can lead to a panopticon of fascinating patterns. In this paper we consider finite element approximations of phase field models with a spatially inhomogeneous and anisotropic surface energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

Here, we propose a comprehensive first-principle atomistic approach to predict the Wulff-Kaischew equilibrium shape of crystals heterogeneously integrated on a dissimilar material. This method uses both reconstructed surface and interface…

The active Phase-Field-Crystal (aPFC) model combines elements of the Toner-Tu theory for self-propelled particles and the classical Phase-Field-Crystal (PFC) model that describes the transition between liquid to crystalline phases. In the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-02-25 Lukas Ophaus , Johannes Kirchner , Svetlana V. Gurevich , Uwe Thiele

A continuum field theory approach is presented for modeling elastic and plastic deformation, free surfaces and multiple crystal orientations in non-equilibrium processing phenomena. Many basic properties of the model are calculated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 K. R. Elder , Martin Grant

We develop a fully coupled theoretical description of dislocation dynamics on deformable crystalline surfaces, using continuum modeling and the amplitude-phase-field crystal (APFC) framework extended to curved geometries. We derive a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-17 Marcello De Donno , Luiza Angheluta , Marco Salvalaglio

Phase-field methods offer a versatile computational framework for simulating large-scale morphological evolution. However, the applicability and predictability of phase-field models are inherently limited by their ad hoc nature, and there…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-30 Jaehyeok Jin , David R. Reichman