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We propose a novel approach to continuum modeling of the dynamics of crystal surfaces. Our model follows the evolution of an ensemble of step configurations, which are consistent with the macroscopic surface profile. Contrary to the usual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Navot Israeli , Daniel kandel

We study the orientation in a uniform magnetic field of rod-like anisotropic biofluid crystals with an easy plane that makes an oblique angle with the crystal's c-axis. For a sufficiently strong field, these crystalline rods orient…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Robert J. Deissler , Robert Brown

We investigate the possibility to control the symmetry of ordered states in phase-field crystal models by tuning nonlinear resonances. In two dimensions, we find that a state of square symmetry as well as coexistence between squares and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Kuo-An Wu , Mathis Plapp , Peter W Voorhees

In this paper, we model the configurations of a system of hard rods by viewing each rod in a cell formed by its neighbors. By minimizing the free energy in the model and performing molecular dynamics, where, in both cases, the shape of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-17 Jamie M. Taylor , Thomas G. Fai , Epifanio G. Virga , Xiaoyu Zheng , Peter Palffy-Muhoray

We present a phase field model of solidification which includes the effects of the crystalline orientation in the solid phase. This model describes grain boundaries as well as solid-liquid boundaries within a unified framework. With an…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander E. Lobkovsky , James A. Warren

We present an isothermal fluctuating nonlinear hydrodynamic theory of crystallization in molecular liquids. A dynamic coarse-graining technique is used to derive the velocity field, a phenomenology, which allows a direct coupling between…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-15 Gyula I. Tóth , László Gránásy , György Tegze

Amplitude representations of a binary phase field crystal model are developed for a two dimensional triangular lattice and three dimensional BCC and FCC crystal structures. The relationship between these amplitude equations and the standard…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 K. R. Elder , Zhi-Feng Huang , Nikolas Provatas

A novel way to create a band structure of the quasienergy spectrum for driven systems is proposed based on the discrete symmetry in phase space. The system, e.g., an ion or ultracold atom trapped in a potential, shows no spatial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-08 Lingzhen Guo , Michael Marthaler , Gerd Schön

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

Crystalline or polycrystalline systems governed by odd elastic responses are known to exhibit complex dynamical behaviors involving self-propelled dynamics of topological defects with spontaneous self-rotation of chiral crystallites.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-06 Zhi-Feng Huang , Michael te Vrugt , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

Clean isotropic quantum Hall fluids in the continuum possess a host of symmetry-protected quantized invariants, such as the Hall conductivity, shift and Hall viscosity. Here we develop a theory of symmetry-protected quantized invariants for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-15 Naren Manjunath , Maissam Barkeshli

In this paper the development of a physically consistent phase-field theory of solidification shrinkage is presented. The coarse-grained hydrodynamic equations are derived directly from the N-body Hamiltonian equations in the framework of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-28 Gyula I. Toth , Wenyue Ma

We extend the phase-field approach to model the solidification of faceted materials. Our approach consists of using an approximate gamma-plot with rounded cusps that can approach arbitrarily closely the true gamma-plot with sharp cusps that…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean-Marc Debierre , Alain Karma , Franck Celestini , Rahma Guerin

We investigate the equilibrium properties of bcc-liquid interfaces modeled with a continuum phase-field crystal (PFC) approach [K. R. Elder and M. Grant, Phys. Rev. E 70, 051605 (2004)]. A multiscale analysis of the PFC model is carried out…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Kuo-An Wu , Alain Karma

Employing a recently developed method that is numerically accurate within a model space simulating the real-time dynamics of few-body systems interacting with macroscopic environmental quantum fields, we analyze the full dynamics of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-07 Javier Prior , Inés de Vega , Alex W. Chin , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

The motion of microstructural interfaces is important in modeling materials that undergo twinning and structural phase transformations. Continuum models fall into two classes: sharp-interface models, where interfaces are singular surfaces;…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-31 Vaibhav Agrawal , Kaushik Dayal

Effects of scale coupling between mesoscopic slowly-varying envelopes of liquid-solid profile and the underlying microscopic crystalline structure are studied in the phase-field-crystal (PFC) model. Such scale coupling leads to nonadiabatic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 Zhi-Feng Huang

Compressive mechanical stress exceeding a critical value leads to the formation of periodic surface buckling patterns in film-substrate systems. A comprehensive understanding of this buckling phenomenon is desired in applications where the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-20 Wenqing Zhu

Amorphization during severe plastic deformation has been observed in various crystalline materials, yet its underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. This study introduces a novel phase-field model at the mesoscale, integrating…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-10 Yuntong Huang , Shuyang Dai , Chuqi Chen , Yang Xiang

In this paper we describe a new model for solidification with heat flux using the phase field crystal (PFC) framework. The equations are thermodynamically consistent, in the sense that the time rate of change of the entropy density is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-13 C. Wang , S. M. Wise